One stud or two?

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I am thinking of putting stud holes on my boy for showjumping. I have been given conflicting info about whether its better to have 1 hole on the outside or 1 each side. Someone told me having 1 each side can cause the leg to twist. Any advice from showjumpers would be great.
 
From what I can gather it's better to have one either side on the front to stop the leg twisting and one on the outside on the back as the leg naturally twists... I could well be wrong though!
 
mine has two in each shoe - but everyones opinion on this is different.

If the going was quite hard I imagine it would not be good to just have one stud in but that is only my opinion, FWIW my farrier has always told me to go with 2, and my horses previous owner told me he is used to having 2 in each shoe.
 
Always two studs for me!!!
Really struggle to understand how it can be good for a horses joints to grip on one side of the hoof and slip on the other?! Presumably the horses joints are not designed for that sort of torsion?

and fwiw I have never had a horse stand on itself with the inside stud in 10 years eventing!
 
I have only ever know a horse once to stud one leg with the other in the back (just caught the top of the coronet band) his rider overcomes this by keeping OR boots on his back legs and taking them off just before she gets on.
 
2 in front always, and behind depends. get someone to walk and trot the horse away from you, and watch to see if he's one of those who twists his foot as he leaves the stance phase. if so, i think it's better to have 1 stud behind, to reduce shearing forces on the fetlock from having two anchor points. BUT if he doesn't twist his foot, have 2 studs behind to keep the foot level.
i've never had a horse stud himself... if he doesn't without studs, why would he with them?
 
one in each for mine

Hate studs with a passion, so two in each shoe would mean double work, never had any problems with slipping or unsoundness.

Have read two in each shoe is only necessary if you are competing at the higher levels
 
1 studs allows the foot to rotate in the ground on turns, so puts less twisting load on the joints. However, 2 studs means that the horse's foot is level (left to right), which is better on hard ground.

My vet (who writes a column in a national magazine) and farrier both recommend 2. However, there are as many people who recommend 1.
 
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