C. He's had a few injuries in his day and hard beginning as a racehorse. Consequently, when we got him his feet were contracted from having plates and shoes all his life and bucked when he was asked to do too much.
..a prince in every other way .
First thing we did, was get rid of the shoes, start with a
regime and let him play in the field to learn to be a horse again. There was lots of limping and leg pain for the first little while, but the feet slowly started to harden up.
My husband could not ride a horse. This horse begged my husband to get on him. So he did.
However, my husband could not stay on him. He was constantly falling off. Black would just stand there with the saddle sometimes under his belly and wait for my husband to collect himself and get back on.
It was really quite funny because a standardbred paces sometimes and their trot is huge. For a novice rider, this is a big challenge but then again, a novice doesn't know any differently either. This miserable, bucking racehorse would actually take care of my husband.
If an experienced rider got on him, he would buck. If a child or my husband got on him, he was wonderful.
You will notice this RCMP WANNABE horse walking in the parade proudly sporting his
down the main street. In this town of Quesnel, B.C. it is mostly cowboys, not too many people use the OLD MAC's. The comments from the towns people were look at that horse with his Nike's on.
There were lots of comments and lots of questions about those
boots which was really a conversation opener for my husband and his PR duties.It took about 2 years to get his feet in shape but the OLD MAC's allowed us to be able to ride him while they were healing. We use them on all four feet. The only time of year I don't use them in is the winter when it is too cold for riding.
The competition horse gets sore without them.
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