Posted 2014-08-21 5:37 PM Subject: Race tomorrow night but horse threw back shoes
Expert
Posts: 1286 Location: Mississippi
And my farrier can't make it out until the first of next week. Would you still run or not? I should be able to park where we won't have to encounter much if any gravel but I am a worry wart...
Posted 2014-08-21 5:40 PM Subject: RE: Race tomorrow night but horse threw back shoes
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Posts: 209
If the arena has good ground I wouldn't be terribly concerned. I feel for you though my mare threw one back shoe in a run and took off so much of her hoof the farrier cant get a new shoe on it so we are stuck without backs for awhile.
Posted 2014-08-21 6:29 PM Subject: RE: Race tomorrow night but horse threw back shoes
Expert
Posts: 4121 Location: SE Louisiana
It depends on when the last shoeing was and how long the wall is.... They have to pivot on those back feet and a long wall without a shoe makes for bad splits when you do that.. I'm surprised both back shoes came off... I see something wrong there..
Posted 2014-08-21 8:38 PM Subject: RE: Race tomorrow night but horse threw back shoes
Reaching for the stars....
Posts: 12708
I just attended the Colonial National multi day show on a 100% gravel grounds facility. I haven't had a shoe on any horse for over two years. I won't ride them across the gravel, but they are fine. There's horses with shoes who 'owey' foot here and there on stray big rocks and no difference in my guys. I also do not get cracked feet from running barefoot. I do get the best traction a horse can get without shoes - just the perfect amount of bite and slide.
Posted 2014-08-21 10:04 PM Subject: RE: Race tomorrow night but horse threw back shoes
Am I really the Weirdo?
Posts: 11181 Location: Kansas
If your horse didn't tear anything up and is not sore, I wouldn't panic about back shoes. I've run Clifford with a front shoe missing a time or two and gotten along fine. I have pulled one back shoe to match the missing one and proceeded to win the rodeo on Chance but I'm not sure I would do it again knowing that he has one back foot that's prone to soreness.
Posted 2014-08-21 10:40 PM Subject: RE: Race tomorrow night but horse threw back shoes
Expert
Posts: 4121 Location: SE Louisiana
Yeah... this is the deal... With the front feet.. Sometimes you can get away with just spreading the shoe and nailing it on... They have a round toe...
The back feet are a whole other ball of wax... They have a pointed toe and straight quarters and a farrier has to actually SHAPE the shoe.... I lost a few front shoes... But never a back one... You have to be doing something REALLY wrong to lose 2 back shoes...
Posted 2014-08-22 11:02 AM Subject: RE: Race tomorrow night but horse threw back shoes
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Posts: 507 Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa.
Run her, I've just got done running in our state show with only 3 shoes. Mare decided to throw the left front. Made a clean run on only 3 shoes. I'd still run her. Especially is she threw back shoes, heck a lot of people only run in fronts anyways.
Race tomorrow night but horse threw back shoes
