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Kat

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Just want to post and praise a product that has just saved me huge expense and distress by doing exactly what it said on the tin.

My horse went down on her knees on concrete today, luckily she was wearing Shires westrop knee brushing boots so instead of having two badly injured knees she has just a little patch where she took some hair off having shredded the neoprene.

Can't say how glad I am that we always use them to hack out. They stayed in place and did the job, can't recommend them highly enough. I'm in the minority on my yard in that I boot up to ride but won't feel like an overprotective mum when I put her "shin pads" on ever again!

Please think about buying some of these, or something similar, they cost less than a vet call out so in my mind they have paid for themselves already!
 
Well worth the investment. I put them on when mine went through a stage of falling. Now she's outgrown this stage we don't boot up.

Sounds like a job well done. Hate to think what your poor horse's knees would look like without them.
 
I'm going to show this post to my daughter.
I've been thinking of buying knee boots for ages as my big girl trips sometimes but said daughter thinks it's a waste of time!

On a similar thread: An old employer of mine took her youngster to a big comp and took out insurance on him that day. He went into the water, fell, and badly damaged his knees. If he hadn't been insured it would have cost her more than he was worth (and that's saying something!). She was very lucky!
 
I LOVE my knee brushing boots! :D

I always hack with something on their knees, used to use brushing and separate knee boots but the knee boots kept falling down.

The combined boots are great, stay in place with lots of cantering etc.
I found the sizes to come up fairly large, my 16.3 has them in cob size.
 
Look these boots up, they protect the whole front of the leg and protect against brushing too. They aren't expensive, can be washed in the machine and are easy to use as they just have velcro fasteners. I'm convinced even in normal knee boots she would have suffered a nasty injury.
 
Glad they did the trick, perhaps due to the injury that can occur when falling on the knees more people should boot up with knee boots as opposed to sticking to simple brushing boots all the time for the sake of it, if you mostly do road work that is, I don't don't boot up with either of mine (have in past with different horses) but even if your horse doesn't usually stumble or have a habit the odd fall, it only takes the once.

I think reading stuff like this reminds you of how easy it can to prevent a nasty scrape etc just by spending a few pounds and taking an extra minute tacking up to bang them on.

http://www.westropphorseboots.co.uk/knee_brushing.html
 
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Have leather knee boots that I use every time I hack. Bits have been replaced over the years and people think I am nuts for bothering but I know what the consequences can be if I don't. If a horse goes down on the road it can be game over.:( Nice to know there are others who are also silly for bothering. :D
 
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