ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: [endurance] Easy Foam & (fwd)

Re: [endurance] Easy Foam & (fwd)

Karen Steenhof (ksteenho@eagle.idbsu.edu)
09 May 1996 16:49:29 -0600

In <Pine.SOL.3.91.960508232416.11026A-100000@coinc0>, Lucie A. Hess wrote:
>
>I have the AERC Rules and Regulations in front of me and no where does it
>say that there is an AERC Rule that horses must be shod. At the rides I
>go to here in the midwest, riders are allowed to decide if their horses
>need shoes or some ride managers may stipulate that shoes are required.
>But it is not an AERC rule.

Here in the Northwest, some of our rides are held when there is a foot
of snow. In these conditions, horses are probably better off unshod.
I have done AERC rides barefoot (my horse not me) under these
conditions.

Karen Steenhof
Boise, Idaho