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My horse fell over tonight on a shingle track, this is the first time it has ever happened in 2 and a half years, got back to the yard and there was quite a bit of blood, cleaned it etc but it got me thinking.

Who wears knee boots while hacking?
 
what knee boots do people use? I never ever see anyone wear them and keep thinking I need to get some now my horse has started hacking out but have still not got round to it. Seems a very sensible idea though.
 
Both mine always wear knee boots when out hacking. A fall to the knees makes a hell of a mess & is potentially very dangerous for the horse. Knee boots will greatly reduce the potential injury.

These are the type my boys wear:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Leather-K...t=UK_Horse_Wear_Equipment&hash=item337bef3d8d

I prefer proper leather knee boots rather than the neoprene type which I don't believe give the same degree of protection
 
I always use them. My sister's old horse tripped walking on a flat road years ago, went down on one knee and was never the same afterwards.
All my hacking now is on quiet lanes or tracks but hardly any of them are flat. Horsey is now 22 and I just don't risk it (for the same reason he also wears exercise wraps all round even if we're just going for a 30 minute pootle around the block).
I bought some second hand Jeffries skeleton boots off Ebay which are great - not too big on the boy's slender knees and they don't slip.
 
Bud currently wears the westrop brushing/knee boots. Saving up for some Jeffries leather knee boots. However westropp ones are great, really solid yet flexible in the right places and they don't move. Done lots of cantering and things. My thinking is they are better than nothing!!
Looking forward to posho leather ones though :)
 
Me, every time I hack out. My leather knee boots saved her knees a few weeks back (flints exposed following all the rain) - lovely gouge marks in the leather but that could have been her skin and that's not as tough as the leather!

I am the only one on my yard that uses knee boots despite the fact that at least 4 horses have fallen unto their knees in the last few weeks as the ground is appalling, they were lucky they got away with it.
 
Always use them now since horse tripped and went down on knees. Thankfully no damage but made me worry. He wears the ones from derby house and they are brill, never fallen down in any pace :)
 
I used to put them on.my TB mare but haven't ever used them on my ID. Not sure why but had her 10 years without her falling/tripping so long may it continue.
 
I never hack out without westropp full knee brushing boots. They have saved me a couple of vets bills and lots of worry, I've seen horrible injuries caused by falls out hacking without knee boots it isn't worth the risk of not using them.
 
Me! A girl on my new yard laughed at me for having them on ....but it really doesn't bother me in the slightest. I've seen a couple of horses slip on 'shiny' Tarmac and one in particular was very very nasty - the vet said in both cases had they been wearing knee boots the damage would have been substantially less. I have the old style leather and felt ones (JHL) they were cheap £11 I think from olddairysaddlery .com but they are worth their weight in gold to me, I dont go on roads without them.
 
Always put them on when hacking on the roads, and have done for many years. I have never been on a horse that fell on its knees as yet but i have seen the damage that just one fall can do and i do think you need knee boots on for the FIRST time they fall - too late if you wait for that first fall before you use them, so much damage can already have been done by then.
 
20 years ago my horse stumbled at a trot on the road, went down onto onto his knees and skidded a metre. When he got up there was blood pouring down his legs and I could see his knee bones. After 10 days is hospital and six months in 24/7 he was fit to ride again. I was lucky, I had an excellent heal and he was totally sound after. Now I never ride a horse on the road without knee boots. I use Jefferies leather ones and am only on my second pair in 19.5 years.
 
It depends where I'm hacking, if just on grass such as round the cross country then I don't put them on but if we're going on tracks or roads she wears them 100% of the time (these ones http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JUMPERS-H...t=UK_Horse_Wear_Equipment&hash=item1e70f9ab4b)

While she's never yet fallen on her knees my mare sometimes trips out hacking and I simply don't think it's worth the risk of the damage she would do falling on her knees without boots
 
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