So I can't jump my horse without him having shoes?

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Looks ok to me?!!
 
Yes he will need thick concave section shoes with at least 2 studs in each shoe, plus sole pads to stop the bruising, I would also advise overreach boots and leg boots for the brushing.
If you are wearing studs, don’t forget the gut guard attached to the girth, this will avoid puncturing the chest when jumping.
It total baffles me how 40 horse doing 35 MPH get around Aintree with no thick shoes, no pads, no studs, no brushing boots, no gut guards, no leg guards.
What is even more mind blowing is, how do feral horses gallop around in the rocky arid conditions avoiding each other, jumping everything in their way, without any shoes on, or do they nip around the corner and whip them off before we see them!!
No asommerville your horse will not need shoes, studs or any other tool of torture in order to perform any discipline you want to do, it will however need you to put the time in on the surfaces you want to compete on in order to give him every chance of being as shore footed as he can be.
 
TBH if you're eventing I personally think it's trickier to do the dressage without studs, especially if you've got smaller circles and medium work around corners to do! You just can't quite get the most out of them if the ground is hard/ slippy but we're talking a mark or two at most. Jumping - no problem as some lovely photos on here clearly prove.
 
LynneT said:
I would listen to your farrier! He is very experienced, been doing it for many years and wouldn't say to do something if it wasn't needed.
He has told me things to do that I have thought were rubbish, but in the end he was right!
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I'm afraid I wold have to disagree with this. Experience does not mean you know everything nor does it mean your good at your job or that you keep up to date with new developments in your field. In my experience a lot of "experienced professionals" make suggestions without a full understanding of alternatives. I must stress that I do not think all professionals come under this bracket.
In my opinion to suggest a horse cannot jump without shoes is complete and utter rubbish. If your horse is happy without shoes why on earth would you suddenly put them on. Of course if you end up jumping at a higher level you may find that shoes are eventually considered. I have been jumping my 7 year old dutch warmblood barefoot all her life. I have had her from a 3 year old and never put shoes on. She currently jumps 1.10m barefoot and is perfectly happy.
 
cptrayes said:
Could have done with a prettier silk?? :D

Nice pic - BE. Novice? Always makes me laugh calling stuff like that novice!
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Fair comment! Yep, just had a spin round a novice for a bit of fun last season, she mainly sjs now as she finds dressage pretty stressful. It was the first time she evented without shoes, though she has always done early season schooling without but I wasnt brave enough to do it when she was doing proper eventing. She was fabhere though :)
 
I remember my old master telling me “ sometimes 50 years experience can be, one year learning it wrong and 49 years repeating your mistakes.”
 
The middle photo in my signature is my barefoot horse clearly struggling to jump a rather big hedge without shoes.

I have no problem hunting barefoot - he's more surefooted than those with shoes. I don't think I can ever remember him slipping when doing dressage on grass either. He doesn't show jump so couldn't comment on that. Might not be great in a jump off on grass but I suspect would be fine for anything else.
 
Not a chance of jumping him without shoes - and certainly cant be regularly ridden on an abrasive surface without risking his feet falling off
(ps thats my friends daughter - I am too fat and feart for that and pps, I would have cleaned him up if I thought it would have been going on here *blush*)


and certainly not on grass - he will obviously fall over (still not me, still too feart although a lot cleaner here!)
 
silly farrier!

Although to a point I know what he means.
once you get to a certain level and height most people like their horses to have studs.

This shouldn't matter when young*and at lower levels though.
 
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