Re: Slippery Training Rides

["Susan Swope-Attardi" <NAGZARUS@prodigy.net>]

Linda,

I meant to ask, does your farrier install the optional toe wear clip to St.
Croix eventers?  Mine did not, says it isn't necessary.  'Course, I'm his
only endurance riding customer.

Susan
-----Original Message-----
From: Flemmer, Linda <flemmerl@rcbhsc.wvu.edu>
To: Susan Swope-Attardi <NAGZARUS@prodigy.net>; ridecamp@endurance.net
<ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Friday, August 28, 1998 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: Slippery Training Rides


>Susan Swope-Attardi wrote:
>
>> I just switched to St. Croix eventers.    Say, how do they
>> wear?  Can you estimate how long you get out of a pair?  I do about 5-8
>> miles a week on pavement out of necessity in getting to other training
>> areas.
>
>I'm using the St. Croix eventers with side clips on 2 horses with probably
15-20
>miles per week on pavement or rocks before we hit the nice clay roads.
We're
>getting a reset out of them as long as you don't mind the toes being so
thin
>that you could shave with them when they finally are "retired"!
>
>They are a bit thicker than the shoes were using previously, thus a bit
>heavier.  The extra weight was just enough to take one gelding over the
edge
>into nicking himself on the cannon bone in front.  We just had to pay a
little
>extra attention to his foot's balance + I think he got used to them.  No
more
>problems after that first time.  (Of course this happens 2 weeks before a
major
>ride for us!  NEVER change anything before a ride!!!!!!!  I keep telling
myself
>that!)
>
>Hey - guess what you can do with all those old shoes (assuming you're tired
of
>folk art and have made all the lawn furniture you need) - Sell them at a
>non-horsie auction.  I went to an estate sale recently where horse shoes
"which
>were used on REAL horses" sold for $6 a piece!  (?As opposed to "fake"
horses?)
>I should have brought that 5 gal bucket full of old shoes from the barn.  I
>could have sold them at a BARGAIN of $5 each!
>
>Linda Flemmer
>
>