Hormonal Filly
Well-Known Member
As the title really.
I have never used boots on any of mine, even when hunter trialing etc. Don't kill me! I red far to much research regarding over heating of the legs so was always dead set against it.
A friend recently went to a vet talk where the vets said some of the worst injuries they come across are hind legs hitting the front over a fence, taking out everything in the front leg, tendons etc, a catastrophic injury with one option. Not always jumping, but boots can help avoid this.
I used a friends boots on the weekend cross country training (as she convinced me) and can't say his legs got hot at all but they did slip down a lot. I did notice a horse in our lesson that had a lovely set of XC boots on, jumped in such a way he knocked his front leg on a angle hard into the corner of a fence, thankfully the boot took the brunt of it and his leg left unmarked.
Its made me wonder if I should buy a set for cross country and jumping.
I have never used boots on any of mine, even when hunter trialing etc. Don't kill me! I red far to much research regarding over heating of the legs so was always dead set against it.
A friend recently went to a vet talk where the vets said some of the worst injuries they come across are hind legs hitting the front over a fence, taking out everything in the front leg, tendons etc, a catastrophic injury with one option. Not always jumping, but boots can help avoid this.
I used a friends boots on the weekend cross country training (as she convinced me) and can't say his legs got hot at all but they did slip down a lot. I did notice a horse in our lesson that had a lovely set of XC boots on, jumped in such a way he knocked his front leg on a angle hard into the corner of a fence, thankfully the boot took the brunt of it and his leg left unmarked.
Its made me wonder if I should buy a set for cross country and jumping.