Do you ride with a lost shoe?

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I never have, soli was always crippled if he lost a shoe. However Robin has lost a shoe, he has much stronger feet and opinion at yard is to ride in the school. I think I will wait till it is back on tho.
 
Yes I have ridden with a lost shoe... Have also walked back home after stupidly riding in wellies and losing one to a stirrup and a bucking horse.

On a more serious note I wouldn't personally but I know others who have :)
 
I have - only in a school and only if the horse was sound on the surface without the shoe. My current mare is fine without a shoe on a good surface, my last horse was a cripple standing still without a shoe - it depends on the horse
 
Most of mine are barefoot but I do ride without if the shod ones lose a shoe provided the foot is not broken and they are comfortable on the yard not just in the school, in fact I will be riding one in the morning with just one front on, bare behind, she lost it Sat is being shod Tues and has walked across the stones on the yard without a care in the world.
 
Would pootle about without a hind shoe (not that my boy has hind shoes) but wouldn't ride without a front shoe. Even with good strong feet, it must be wonky, surely?
 
Yes if hind, just avoiding stones. If a fore, only on a surface because my boy has quite thin soles. If he wasn't so sensitive in front would ride on good ground without a front, but not roads or stones/tracks. Providing a clean pull and horse still sound, obviously.
 
Kamikaze said:
Thanks for the helpful comments and also thanks for the sarcastic comments, wish I hadn't bothered.
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Oh what my comment you mean? Crikey, that was just meant to be a light hearted joke - a play on the title of the thread. Wow. Umm. Not sure what to say really.
 
When my lad went through a phase of pulling a shoe every 5 minutes, and with a farrier who lives 1 /2 hours away, I bought some Cavello hoof boots and would pop one of those on if he had lost a show ..... Made a weird noise down the road, as he is unshod behind *clip, muffled clop, thud, muffled clop* .......
 
Yes. I ride with 4 :) Ok so now I've got my frankly rubbish joke out of the way when I DID have a shod horse then I'd ride in walk on soft non-abrasive surfaces until shoe was replaced. Your farrier will not thank you for knocking chunks off the hoof if you're expecting them to put a shoe back on even if the horse is not sore (although if you feel the horse is fine and comfortable without then shoes may not actually be needed). I did once hack about 5 miles home over roads and bridleways sans shoe when horse was being a pillock and pulled one off mid ride though (was being faaar too daft to be hand walked home!)
 
My Connemara is TERRIBLE for pulling his shoes off in the field... the soil is clay around here so the mud is horrendous, and he's notorious for coming in with a missing shoe. I wouldn't hack or jump particularly high with a missing shoe, but a farrier is at my yard weekly so I never have to wait more than 4 days to get the shoe back on, so I will continue schooling and lunging until then as he has strong feet. If he was ever sore because of a lost shoe then, of course, I would leave him be.
 
No. I have occasionally lost a shoe while out - I just head home steadily. I wouldn't work a horse with one shoe on and one shoe off.
 
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