> a horse can have "road founder" where perscussive footfall on a hard > surface tears the laminae and the horse founders. Some terrible > disreputable gaited horse people will deliberately induce this as a > sort of "invisible" soring method which makes the horse want to pick > up its feet high and out of soreness will alter a pacey gait to square > and smooth.
This is known as a "concussive soring practice". Not unknown to those training Icelandic Horses. Judy http://icehorses.net http://clickryder.com
