RE: [RC] [RC] Re:RC What Shoes Really Do - Chastain, Shannon L.
Kinda strange I have experienced
opposite, my two barefoot horses hardly never slip in grass, wet or dry and
my riding buddies horse slips all the time in dry and wet grass and he is
shod. We all slip in the gumbo mud at Indian Caves I am trying to learn to
say weee instead of oh @#$%.
Shannon
Missouri
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Do
I would have to agree with this, that shoes on a horse
help with traction, on mud or dry grass.
I wouldn't say this is necessarily so. Last year, a friend was riding my
gelding who is shod. I was riding my mare who has been barefoot all her life.
Both horses are agile as cats on hills. We had to ride down a very slick
hill,... it had rained thenight before.
The shod horse went down that hill just fine. My barefoot mare lost her
footing and she and I slid down the hill on our sides, my left leg under her
body. Luckily neither of us was hurt.
