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> From: John Teeter <johnt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Ridecamp Alexandria <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [RC]   Some Stories from the Santa Fe Trail - David Fryer
> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:51:59 -0600
>
> On Sep 12, 2007, at 10:37 AM, David Fryer wrote:
>
> (Hi. Would you care to post this? I don't remember my logon. )
>
> Hi. I will skip the Santa Fe Trail race politics and just talk about the
> hoof care issues I observed. I worked with two teams in the first  three 
> days
> of riding. The first team consisted of four horses which had had  
> horseshoes
> on three months before the race. They had transitioned from shoes to
> barefoot with HoofArmor in the three months before the race. The  other 
> team
> typically rode with boots. The first day in New Mexico near Santa Fe  was 
> the
> toughest terrain ever, said a rider who had done many rides,  including Old
> Dominion. I applied HoofArmor to one horse the night before and that  horse
> stepped on a sharp stone and twisted the pastern, so was pulled at  the 
> first
> vet check. We checked with hoof testers and the hoof had no pain  response,
> but the pastern was sore and swollen. Another team used Renegade  boots. 
> One
> of their horses got a stone inside the boot which bruised the frog so  it 
> was
> pulled and that horse was head-bobbing lame two days later. After the  
> first
> day of the ride I applied HoofArmor to three horses; one of which  started 
> in
> Renegade boots, the others were just HoofArmor. The second day ride  was 50
> miles on the shoulder of a road on stones that looked like volcanic  
> pumice.
> The two HoofArmor horses successfully completed 50 miles. The next  morning
> both horses had swollen pasterns, but no pain response in the hooves.  The
> horse with the Renegade boots had two boots break and fall off by the  
> first
> vet check. He put the boots on the weaker hind and had just HoofArmor  on 
> the
> front. That horse came in 6th place that day. I put HoofArmor on that  
> horse
> again that night and the next day he went with Renegade boots on the  hind
> and just HoofArmor in front. He finished 3rd for the day. Another  horse 
> with
> just HoofArmor was not fully recovered from falling through a cattle  grate
> three weeks before and was pulled at the first vet check for pastern  pain;
> but no hoof pain response. As the team I originally went out to  support 
> had
> no sound horses left, and their vet pulled the team from the race, I
> returned home.
> Before I left I put HoofArmor on a pair of EasyBoots. I was shown a  pair 
> of
> older Easy boots made from rubber in Mexico. The toes were completely  worn
> through about one inch from the front in two days (100 miles) of  riding. I
> was also shown a new pair of EasyBoots made from PVC in China. That  pair 
> had
> the entire front half of the boots worn through. Another rider with a  new
> set of steel horseshoes wore the hind pair down in two days that the  nails
> heads were completely worn off. These are just my observations. If I  hear
> more, I will write again. Thanks.
>
> David Fryer
> www.hoofarmor.com
>
>
>
>
>
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