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Good job, April.  Sounds like you're getting closer to a workable routine.
Merry Christmas!
Laney

April wrote:
> Some of you may have seen my earlier Easyboot Epic trial posts. I've now 
> added a pair of Bares on the hinds.
>
> Today, Tanna and I were joined by Angie and Khasey for a Christmas Eve 
> day training ride. We pretty much had the trails to ourselves for most 
> of the day. We did see a couple of other small groups out, but it was 
> very nice to be able to have the trails to ourselves. Percy Warner Park 
> is a very popular horse trail system and we expected to see more riders, 
> but I guess others had family obligations.
>
> Anyway, on to the trial. I went out at 7 AM to get Tanna's boots on. At 
> 7:50, I had all 4 boots on with vet wrap. About the timing I was 
> expecting. I was pleased, though, to be able to get both front Epics on 
> in 10 minutes! I lunged Tanna for a few minutes to watch him move in the 
> boots. He did pretty well. He smacked the bottoms of the fronts a few 
> times, but seemed to do ok. I turned him back in the paddock to wait 
> until time to leave for the park.
>
> We did 17 miles in 3 hours. Tanna moved a lot better this trip! He still 
> wanted to go crooked occasionally, but it was much less and he 
> straightened up when I asked him to.
>
> All boots stayed firmly on his feet and when I removed the boots, I saw 
> no signs of rubbing or soreness on any of the four feet. The Bares came 
> off a lot easier than I thought they would. I put the heel of my hand on 
> the boot ledge to the outside of the hoof and shoved hard. The boots 
> just popped right off. I think they might have loosened up with the 
> riding. I'll tighten them up one hole before my next ride.
>
> I still think I might rasp the fronts of the Epics to try to speed up 
> the breakover of the fronts and make it easier for Tanna to keep his 
> feet out of the way. I also want to try using the boots without vet 
> wrap. It would make it easier (and cheaper) to use the boots if I didn't 
> have to wrap the pasterns all the time.
>
> Photos and descriptions on Flickr.
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/endurancerider/sets/72157594436799045/ 
> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/endurancerider/sets/72157594436799045/>
>
> For those of you that like GPS data:
> http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view.do?episodePk.pkValue=1783116 
> <http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view.do?episodePk.pkValue=1783116>
>
> Merry Christmas to all and to all I wish horsey kisses,
>
> April
> Nashville, TN
> http://www.tracetribute.com
> http://endurancerider.blogspot.com


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