showing in remedial shoes?

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I hope to do some local showing but have been told that as my horse wears heart bars in front he will be unlikely to be placed. Is this others experience?
Please don't hijack this thread into a discussion of the evils of heart bar shoes, thanks.
 
It's stupid but you are unlikely to be placed. My fellas a farrier and shod one and made it sound (was a laminitic) but had to remove them before a show!
 
Its not so stupid a rule when you think that heart bars suggest some sort of conformational defect/soundness issue, and in showing classes you are looking for the horse with perfect conformation and type.
although at local level I wouldn't imagine it being any issue (most unaff judges wont notice/look that close!) but no remedial shoeing is allowed under the various affiliated society rules.
 
3bh said:
Its not so stupid a rule when you think that heart bars suggest some sort of conformational defect/soundness issue, and in showing classes you are looking for the horse with perfect conformation and type.
although at local level I wouldn't imagine it being any issue (most unaff judges wont notice/look that close!) but no remedial shoeing is allowed under the various affiliated society rules.
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I've come across this when I've been judging. If you have two sound horses in the class and one has remedial shoes/pads, then in my view, it has to go below the other. Its obviously got/had a problem with its soundness, and at the end of the day, we should be putting up sound without help horses.
 
I've never shown my pony when he had heart bars on (because he wasn't sound then), but for a considerable period of time he had ordinary shoes on backwards and I showed him like that quite frequently. Granted it was only at local level and we all know what some of the judging can be like there, but he never seemed to be marked down for it. I think the only time it was actually commented on was when we did tack and turnout and the judge picked up his front feet to see how clean they were. I certainly would expect to be marked down when showing above local level even if the pony was perfectly sound.
 
Kat said:
Ordinary shoes backwards?
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Yes - for frog pressure and can relieve splits in front from pressure.

In conformation classes a horse wearing corrective shoes should be marked down - it's conformation is not good enough. If as a result of an injury or maybe laminitis then it shouldn't be - maybe the judge should ask the reason why!

A pad under a shoe - especially if on just one foot would suggest protection following an abscess or puncture - but on both feet would suggest problems.
 
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