Re: Re: To Silicone or Not to Silicone

["Susan Swope" <nagzarus@prodigy.net>]

Geez, this is really awful, but with all the talk of bras and amply endowed
women riders, I was really afraid the topic had gotten out of hand when I
read:  "To Silicone or Not to Silicone"!

Sorry for the clutter... just feeling gitty!

Susan Swope-Attardi
AERC Southeast Region
Kentucky
-----Original Message-----
From: Maryanne Stroud Gabbani <gabbani@starnet.com.eg>
To: Maggie Mieske <mmieske@netonecom.net>
Cc: RideCamp <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Friday, April 30, 1999 2:17 AM
Subject: RC: Re: To Silicone or Not to Silicone


>Dumb question from Cairo:  What are the pads for and what are they? Where I
>ride in the desert we count the unrocky places rather than the rocky ones
>and we don't have any pads here....they are for rocks?  Or are they for
>areas where the horse is on solid stone?  I've been trying to figure it
out.
>
>Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
>Cairo, Egypt
>gabbani@starnet.com.eg
>
>> I have wedge pads on my gelding's front feet and my farrier husband
>> silicone underneath them to prevent that problem.  We have not had any
>> problems with lameness but then again we really fill that space up...
>> generally have a mess and I have to peel the excess off for a few days
>> after but we haven't had any sand get in there!  I think it works well
>> provided that you really fill it well...stuff that nozzle in there as
>> far as possible and don't worry about the mess.  I'd rather have a
>> little mess to clean up than have to redo a shoe job because we didn't
>> get enough in there the first time.
>> Maggie, the farrier's wife  :)
>>
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