Giving Your Freedom Shoe Horse a Better Ride
Deciding to switch to a freedom shoe horse setup may feel like a large leap, several riders find the extra hoof flexibility will be worth the change. For a long time, the standard answer for any horse needing some protection has been to nail on a group of heavy metal plates. It worked—and it still functions for plenty of horses—but we've discovered a lot lately about how a horse's hoof really functions. It isn't simply a solid block out of horn; it's money, breathing, growing piece of biological equipment. Once you lock that hoof into a rigid metal body, you're inevitably losing some of that will natural movement. ...