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I don't see equithotics would buy you over plain old bar shoes. I tried 
them once and the farrier has to really have some experience with they 
will do more harm than good.

Truman

Dabney Finch wrote:

> I had an endurance horse once with pedal osteitis. Had a "corrective" 
> shoer work on him (looked to me as if all he did was radically back 
> off the toes) and the horse was back to endurance in a very short time!
>
> As for Equithotics, I tried them and also picked up a couple of 
> stones, and then my horse's hooves started to blow out with them, so 
> that experiment was over.
>
> Elfta is using a shoe now on Kaizen that is front half steel and back 
> half just like sneakers--this is working the Best Yet!
>
> Let me know if you want me to try to find out where she gets these and 
> what they're called.
>
> --Dabney Finch


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