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| Curious how many of you use boots on your horses when slow working or starting a colt on the pattern?
Edited by TLynn 2015-02-19 1:57 PM
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | i dont.......
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 I don't want to screw up!
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Location: North Dakota -> Colorado | Honestly, the only thing I ever use when just exercising or working a new horse on the pattern is bells. The only time I use leg protection (in my case, polo wraps) is when I am actually at a rodeo or a barrel race |
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| Slow work or colts - just bells/over reach boots. Exercising my horses regularly I use Iconoclasts and over reach boots. Same with performance. |
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | Only actually when running. The heat isn't good for their legs on a regular basis. |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | Only bells when working in the arena and front boots when running. Will also put boots on at this time of year to protect against crunchy snow. If I need back boots, I use polos in competition but prefer to not use anything if I can :) |
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Regular
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| I agree with everyone, only bell boots, they need to build their tendon strength when being rode. I only every put boots on when I compete or sometimes I ride in my field, which has some uneven ground, I only ever work in there at a trot, just to avoid getting sore if they misstep or trip. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: NC | When just riding around bells and galloping boots on front. My gelding will occasionally knock ankles together or cut them. When running at a show either SMBs for my gelding or CE for my mare and polo wrap back legs. |
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  Ms. Marine
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Location: Texas | I don't. |
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 A Bit of a Grammar Nut
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Location: floating down a river | Only bell boots as others have said. Only time any of mine get boots is when I am ready to run or rope, the heat from the boots causes more problems, they immediately get pulled off when I am done. |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
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Location: Phoenix | Just bells. I kind of re-started with horses so I don't even have any boots whatsoever. Even if I had boots I wouldn't use them in slow work. |
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 Keep those crap slapping tails away!
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Location: Around here somewhere... | I just use bell boots. |
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 Off the Wall Wacky
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Location: Louisiana | I don't use any type of boot unless I'm making a competition run. My gelding rarely clips himself in a run, and we don't get out of a lope 90% of the time at home so I don't even use bell boots. If I know I'll be going around the pattern faster than a trot I will throw some bell boots on just in case- that is very rare though as we don't do much pattern work.
Running, I boot all 4 legs. I think the hind legs are just as important if not more so than the front. He sits down and uses his rear end to turn, I don't imagine he would so much if they got burnt up each run. He goes through hind boots quicker than front boots, meaning they need to be washed sooner. He has been known to burn through the first layer of a polo wrap in a really sandy arena.
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Location: Pacific Northwest | I mainly just use bell boots when working at home. If I plan on actually making real practice runs I'll put boots on all 4s, but for the most part I only use boots at races.
If my pattern work is only consisting of loping then I still just use bells. |
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