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[RC] hard roads effect, lameness - Sky RanchI have concerns about "hard" road travel. Some say it's not harmful, in fact will strengthen the legs. Some say it will cause injury, lameness. Which is it? I will say that this is the main issue that I have been afraid to go to endurance riding, and longer distances, because of my 'fear' of the hard surface conditions, too much road travel. I don't want to hurt my horse. He's a 16 yr old Arabian. Please remember I am a newbie, this may have been extensively covered previously, so I apologize if this is an old question ... but I don't have an answer. I want my horse to last forever (don't we all), I don't want him lamed from going over too much of the hard road conditions. We do most of our conditioning on trails, very little road travel. When it gets 'hard' I slow down. Am I incorrect to do this? Thank you, Carla Richardson =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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