Sausage boot...?

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Charisma as the tendency to brush quite low on her coronet...so fetlock boots are no use.

Would I need to use a sausage boot for this? And I take it it is ok to use for fast work etc, I have never used one before. Well I have but it was about 5 years ago on someone else s horse, lol
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I tried one on my old horse but it never really helped so in the end I just accepted I'd be frowned at and put overreach boots on his back feet
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I tried one on my old horse but it never really helped so in the end I just accepted I'd be frowned at and put overreach boots on his back feet
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Lol we're doing that at the moment but it isn't so frowned upon in driving as there are extra hooves in the way and the horses spend their lives leg yielding!
 
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The only thing I could ever imagine it interfearing with would be piaffe and passage!

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*Cough* Erm, we are not quite there yet
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For some reason, this has become an excepted misuse of the term. You could not ride out with a 'sauasge boot' in place, they are really large contraptions, some 5" in thickness, and are designed to give protection when a horse has injured itsself, and only for use when stabled.
What you require are fetlock rings, ideally a pair, so that when a horse goes close behind, the 'bounce' off each other, these are simply rubber rings with a leather strap inside for easy fitting. I have never understood why people use a single one, as this defeats their purpose!
 
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