Your horses legs-boots, bandages or naked?

Schooling / Hacking - Always boots or polo bandages all round Have never waivered from this ever since I came back from a hack with a huge hole in one boot and didn't even know how it happened!! If the boot hadn't been on it would have been a nasty gash and probably a vet job!!

Jumping - Tendon boots in front fetlock boots behind

XC NEW XC boots all round and Over reach boots in front

Turnout naked unless they are going to be silly
 
Schooling at home: WW brushing boots all round.

Hacking: WW brushing boots all round (+ knee boots if on the roads)

Show Jumping/Working hunter: Veredus open front gel tendon boots in front, matching fetlock boots behind.

Hunting: Clarendon boots! - the only boots that seem to stay in place for 6 hours of hunting in knee deep mud!!!

Cross country: N.E.W boots front have tendon protection, back have shin protection.

Used to use bandages - but had a scarey incident with a horse bucking and catching its bandage on the arena fence...also find them a bit of a faff to put on take off!
 
bandages for schooling/flatwork + overreach boots
woof brushing boots for hacking
woof pro tendon & fetlock for jumping
woof ultra for xc + trizone overreach boots (short dont get stood on)
 
I have to say I am more in line with Gamebird than anyone else so far.

Hacking/schooling at home - nothing
Lunging brushing boots all round
SJ at home - nothing
Fast work - over reach boots as he is prone to catching himself sometimes

Competing wise
Dressage - nothing
BSJA/ SJ phase of BE- Nothing (he can be careless)
XC - Claredon event boots all round and over reach boots

For some reason wearing boots and getting hot under them makes his mud fever flare up so I avoid boots where possible.
 
I school with bare legs
I sj with tendon, fetlock and OR boots
I xc with leather boots and OR boots
Fast work is done in brushing boots
 
Nothing for flatwork/hacking, jumping - open tendon boots and fetlock boots, xc - brushing boots all round or premier equine sports boots all round.
 
Brushing boots all round for schooling/lungeing/hacking.

Haven't yet braved proper SJ or XC but would boot up all round and probably add OR boots when doing XC.

Occasionally add OR boots when hacking if the ground is particularly boggy (we're on clay)
 
Lungeing - OR and brushing all round
Hacking, hunting and xc - brushing all round, but for xc will start using xc boots when we start going a little bigger
Schooling and sj - nothing, she takes the mick sj and knocks them if she has boots on but again as we start going a bit bigger will use open tendon on front
 
Like Holly-Jane, I got a rollocking from a top SJ bod once- 'If you want your horse on four legs, protect them!!'

I always have WW all round brushing boots- their four strap in front, and five strap behind for general work. Cottage Craft open fronted tendon boots and fetlocks for SJ competing- don't bother changing from the brushing for home work.

I boot up all round for XC and hacking including OR, and for turnout- loopy loo mare.
 
Turnout boots for in the field - back & front
Overreaches & Brushing Boots for schooling & hacking. Usually just fronts, but all round for hacking.
Over Reaches, and Tendon & Fetlocks for jumping.

Blu also has bandages in the stable as from now on before a show to keep her legs cleaner!
 
schooling-either brushing boots or polo wraps on
sj brushing boots and over reach boots all round
fun rides and xc-boots all round,over reaches on
hacking-brushing boots and knee boots
out in field-if out in day only they get brushing boots on all four if they are in a shared field.if out 24/7 in summer they have nothing on or if they are in their own field
 
i dont really use them too much as tbh some people ''over boot'' their horses and tbh most horses are sensible enough to look after their own legs...lol :P
i use;

hacking - nothing, unless fast road work then i have leg wraps
schooling - nothing, MAYBE use his leg wraps
hunting - nothing, as i have had bad experiences with boots slipping out hunting...so choose not to use them (i dont do really big hunts anyways so its ok)
showjumping - open front tendon boots (over reach on one of my horses but not on the other)

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Turnout - sportbac mud boots all round in the winter
Schooling- woof wear brushing boots all round
Jumping - Open fronted veredus boots (sometimes fetlocks if needed)
Hacking - woof wear brushing boots all round and over reach boots

Shows
SJ - Either my veredus pro lites or his fusion leather and sheepskin boots and over reaches

XC - woof wear in front and NEW event boots on back and over reach boots
 
Only use boots when needed(jumping)if they dont injure themselves in the filed then they are not going to hurt themselves on a hack or anywhere else.I use boots 4 jumping only(xc).Im the old fashioned type and believe in the saying"if it aint broke,then no need to fix it",never had any prob 2date.Wud use Over-reach for fast work as a general rule!! And if i had a horse that brushed/over-reached,then id obv feel the need to use boots other than this,i see no need.
 
i agree with mandymoo about some people over booting horses Mine wear dressage wraps for schoolling and hacking, tendon boots for sj and one horse is wearing overreach boots at the mo cos of an injury. In the field usually they wear nothing unless they're prone to losing shoes or they're likely to go mad then they'll wear o/r boots. I work on a prof sj yard and if we put masses of boots on every horse we'd spend all day doing it. To be fair though some horses are more prone to injury and if you've got time to spend messing about with boots then why not. I don't think my horses have ever got an injury that would've been saved with boots (touch wood
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field - over reach boots but in really bad muddy,snowy weather he will have brushing boots on as well

riding - over reach ,woof wear club all round and if I can be arsed I have some gfs tendon and fetlock boots for jumping but they are a b***er to get on properly

The horse in question is in fact bambi disgused as a Throughbred!!!
 
For G who is quite close behind, clumsy and usually gets puffy legs from boots:

Schooling and Lunging - Polo bandages over Eskadron Climatex pads. Occasionally use over reach boots and sometimes naked legged.

Hacking/Jumping - Open front tendon boots or PE Airflow on fronts, fetlock boots on the back. Sometimes over reach boots and always knee boots when hacking.
 
scholing/hacking woof brushing boots all round. although i have been putting just over reaches on when schooling after work because i dont like puttng boots on wet/muddy legs.

jumping open fronted tendon boots and fetlock boots all round.

xc - dnno yet - prob just the woof brushingto stat with
 
Songs is naked for everything apart from XC where he is booted all round - somtimes does have back bans on for schooling as he knocks

Zac has front boot for exercise and a front pastern wrap where he has a sore heal, when its bad he has front bandages with full fibergees in, and then somtimes he has a bandage or 2 behind if hes knocked him self on the gallops
 
Closed front tendon boots for jumping because she is very careful and panics if she hits one plus brushing boots on back.
Hacking always tendon boots in front and brushing behind because even if I'm planning a quiet walk she has been known to interpret that to mad broncing galloping fit downhill.
Schooling always tendon and brushing boots.
I never do any kind of exercise since an incident last year. We were schooling and my then trainer was an advocate of long and low. So we're cantering on a circle ona beautiful flat arena and I'm encouraging her to lower her neck she was dead relaxed- next thing she basically went to sleep tripped over her own foot and ended up flat on her face another 1/4 of the way around the circle. When we checked her legs it turned out she had actually scrapped her back hoof down the back of her front leg. You could see where she had skinned the hair and then hit the boot and there was a long mark down the back of her tendon boot. I think she would have probably laid open her tendons had she not had the boots on and we were just cantering a 20m circle. Shes also had a brush with barbed wire when she ditched me out hacking once and I had a huge whole in her back boot but a complete leg. Basically I would own an expensive grass cutter if it wasn't for her boots.
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