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After having a bad wreck with my horse caused by a pair of bell boots that got snagged on a tree root sticking out of the ground, I will not trail ride with anything around my horse's pasterns. It's asking for an accident, a lame horse and hurt rider.

 

chris

Charlene Large <diablohot2trot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Speaking of Easyboots.....
>
> I have a short story to tell about my Epics. 
>
> Last weekend I lost three out of four boots on an all
> rock, very hilly trail in the mountains. The front
> pair I must have over 300 miles on, and the back pair
> were brand spankin new, first time ridden in. Only one
> of the original boots lived. The boots ripped
> completely off the gaiter somewhere around 15 miles,
> leaving nothing but neoprene and bruises hanging
> around my horse's pasterns. And, now I
>  have a lame
> horse from literally dragging him barefoot over that
> terrain, another nine miles back to the trailhead.

?A short horse is soon curried?

 

Chris Paus

 

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