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Re: [RC] traiul hazards................. - Chris PausGosh Scott. I'm so sorry. I haven't had that happen, but one of my horses last summer got a nasty leg abrasion and subsequent inflammation and rash from some kind of nasty viney weeds growing a long a trail that wrapped around him. It took quite a while to clear that up. And, I'll never again use bell boots on a horse on trail. I was riding the Starman down a rocky wooded trail, trotting along and all of a sudden, he pitched forward, tried to regain his balance, and then fell to his knees. I rolled over his head. Neither of us was hurt, but when I looked at his feet, his professional's choice bell boot was hung up on a tree root poking up from the ground. it was holding him tight. The velcro did not give. It could have been a real ugly accident. I wrote to the Pro Choice people and sent them the boot and suggested that maybe they shouldn't have them hold quite so good! They just thanked me for my comments and sent me a replacement, which I never asked for, LOL.. I hope your horse mends quickly. chris --- sehredt@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: I was riding my gelding, Draco today on a trail we have ridden a hundred times when the strangest thing happened............... We were at a walk through a narrow wash that has been trashed by the recent heavy rains and high winds - lots of tumble weeds and trash, etc. All of a sudden he hesitated. Took one more faltering step, and stopped. I looked down to see the oddest sight. He had caught his back leg in a length of red surveyors string which was, somewhere, obviously well anchored. He was holding his back leg up in the air and the string was taut and I could feel a panic coming on - from both of us! I tried to get him to move back, but he wasn't going for it. I lept off his back, whipped my trusty knife from the top of my half chaps (I always wondered why I always carry it there) and cut the string. A cursory examination didn't seem so bad. It looked like a fairly minor abrasion and he was walking fine. I got back on and rode home. ===== "A good horse makes short miles," George Eliot Chris and Star BayRab Acres http://pages.prodigy.net/paus =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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