Travelling horses with no boots or bandages.

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The other point re boots - I had an incident a couple of months back when my mares boot must have slipped but the trailer started snaking (whilst travelling at 55mph on dual carriageway, eek) and when I pulled over to check one of her front boots was on the floor with all the tabs ripped off. can only assume she lost her balance whilst trying to kick it off and nearly sent us into a spin. Scary wasn't the word for it

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Exactly the same thing happened on our way to our last comp, I had booted Ed up and was travelling behind the trailer when it started snaking, when we got to the event he had one of his boots on the floor-needless to say he'd snaked the trailer in his efforts to get it off.

I am seriously considering using o/r and brushing boots all round after reading this thread.
 
Mine travels with boots - they've never caused a problem and she's got a histpry of treading on herself so that works for her.

I know plenty that travel naked and I've done this in the past. I think its just one of those decisions where you have to judge each situation on its own and take the best action for each horse.
 
I used to be a travel boot fan until my mare freaked when hers slipped down. She caused herself an injury trying to get them off so i put brushing boots and over reach boots allround now and she seems so much happier. I think whatever suits your horse really.
 
After 12 years of travelling quite happily in boots my horse managed to get himself tangled up in his back boots recently. He is normally a very calm horse but he was absolutely frantic and had cut his legs scrabbling for balance.

It has now taken a while to get him happy to travel again
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I won't ever be using travelling boots again.
 
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