Ideas to stop a horse pulling off boots

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Hi, some help please.

We've got a horse that has just come back into work following time off due to an external injury (continueous brushing or possibly a stronger single blow.) Obviously the horse is booted when exercised, but the vet has strongly advised that it is booted when turned out and ideally bandaged in the stable too.

However, it becomes savage with its determination to rip/pull/tear them off. We've stopped bandaging it because him pulling them off is damaging the legs.

Any ideas that will prevent him pulling them off? We have tried a bib attached to the headcollar, this worked for the first couple of nights but after that he mangaged to pull them off again! Any specially designed boots, or anything we could rub onto boots?!!!
Thanks
 
Do you think that there is some underlying reason as to why the horse is pulling them off? Could his legs be extra sensitive now, for example?
 
I used to use this spray for my horses tail when it was chewed constantly by his field companion. The taste utterly disgusting- as I found out by getting some on my hands by mistake and then eating lunch! I wore disposable gloves after that to put it on. What about wraps with velcro for the stable, rather than bandanges, so if he does get them off, its not pulling a bandage tighter round delicate legs?
http://www.hyperdrug.co.uk/Bitter-Spray-100ml-was-Leo/productinfo/LEOBITSP/
 
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