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| Do you feel it causes soreness and too much pressure on the outside hoof wall?
Do you feel it helps them dig?
Would you use them for certain ground only?
I've always been a slicks on the back person because I want them to have some slide when they get in the ground. |
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Location: Bandera, TX | It totally depends on how the horse uses himself. If he needs the extra bite to stand up and not get himself hurt then so be it. My husband recently went out to our old place and found some shoes from one of my best horses. He was shod with an outside trailer on the back to keep him standing up. When he wasn't shod that way he would get his outside leg slipping away from him and have trouble maintaining in the turn on rodeo ground. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Depends on the horse. Some need rims, some don't. Some can tolerate them, some can't. I've had more horses run in rims on the rear than not. One mare in particular was a half second faster in rims. |
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Location: North Dakota | I run my horse Red with rims on all 4. He only slipped two times the entire season last year, whereas he would often have trouble with the ground the previous year. They work well for him. |
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| Right now I run my mare in Sidewinders on the front, a V-Grip shoe on the back, while I can still get them. But this and my old good rodeo mare are both 4WD drive rather than sit and slide type horses. My vet has always told me that they do more damage by slipping than having too much grip, something that has held true by my 4WD horses and the hard, crap and race track ground we see so much of up here at rodeos. Try to run a horse in slicks on this type of ground and you AND your horse will likely get hurt.
So as others have said, it depends on the horse, it's turning style and also the type of ground you run on. Rims were not enough grab for this and my old mare. |
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Location: God's country...aka TEXAS | They put too much grab on the hind end. It ends up soring up the hocks etc. There are plenty other options for back shoes with varying amounts of traction. |
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| I've always ran and ridden all my horses in rims all the way around. I'd rather have too much traction than slip, especially on bad ground. Never had any soreness, or hock/ankle issues.
ETA: I'm with RodeoVeteran - my vet has always said that he'd rather a horse have a little too much stick than risk the serious damage from slipping and falling.
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Location: Winslow, IN | If I have a horse slipping on their hind end, I have my farrier put a shoe on that has the toe of a rim but the heel of a flat. It's worked every time for me. |
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| JLBerry - 2016-08-24 4:55 PM
They put too much grab on the hind end. It ends up soring up the hocks etc. There are plenty other options for back shoes with varying amounts of traction.
I 100% used to feel this way but after having them on my gelding for about 4 weeks now he is clocking better than ever. It's got me   |
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| depends on gound and the horse and if the horse stands up or gets in the ground. |
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Location: Piedmont, OK | It depends on if the horse is having ground trouble. I don't do it unless necessary because it can cause hocks to get sore. But I had one fall a few years ago on bad ground after time off to heal when she was cleared to run again we kept rims on her back end for about 6 months just to help her out some. |
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| I use rims on my gelding but not my mare. Had too much grab for her and she started getting sore in her hocks, then went up to her hindquarters and back. Took off the back rim shoes and all soreness disappeared. |
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