Poly Feet ?

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by paisjpq

I have no idea ...I don't talk to trainers...at least not like some others around here....but I guess nothing would surprise me, if the horse were going to be running over it all the time. It wouldn't make sense to experiment with hoof angles for one run...and I too have seen some messy outcomes when farriers try to play god and change a horse's natural angle...my own horse was a complete disaster when i bought him, it took 8 months to get his feet right.

Mine too, as well as my sister's t-bred. When they raced him, they kept his toes a lot longer than they should have and he already had a natural tendency to walk on his heels... it made it that much worse when they tried to "fix" that problem.

[paisjpq]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

Mine too, as well as my sister's t-bred. When they raced him, they kept his toes a lot longer than they should have and he already had a natural tendency to walk on his heels... it made it that much worse when they tried to "fix" that problem.

a TB with crushed/underrun heels is like rum and coke...they just go together

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by paisjpq

a TB with crushed/underrun heels is like rum and coke...they just go together

Yep, so I've got no clue as to why they tried to correct something that was just natural for him... it's beyond me.

I just wondered if some trainers were going to attempt that... especially if more graded races are going to be run on the poly.