On 9/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Karen, > The thrown shoe with the "hoof material" looks like equipak. I have > seen this used by the Icelandic show people to get the horse to pick up their > feet better. My farrier uses it when a sole is tender or bruised for some > reason. It is a soft gel like material. > > Renee
so it is a way to add weight to alter gait. we here in the walking/racking horse capitols of the world are well familiar with these seemingly harmless methods to alter crappy gaits or enhance gaits for the show ring. It probably wont be long before it suddenly ocuurs to them, voila, we can pressure shoe! Add a smear of mustard oil to the coronet band! after all, winning is everything! Not just for ribbons, but for stud services, boosting prices of horses who win ribbons, and their offspring! Evaluations! these are big money activities. And they ruin breeds of horses. ruin them completely. Breed all the natural gait out. Like breeding for color or svelte conformation or mane instead of soundness and natural gait. Any time you mix dollars with horses, horses lose. Janice-- yipie tie yie yo
