"My husband Jack and I rode our two horses at the Cross Country Trail Ride on an organized ride. This was located in the Eminence, Missouri Ozarks with all types of rugged rocky terrain.
We have gaited foxtrotters, and had our Bare Boots on. We seemed to be the only folks with boots on. Everyone marveled at how those boots stayed on during the ride as we gaited with the best of them. Others had shoes, and many padded ones at that. Our horses negotiated the steep hills, muddy bogs (as it had rained recently) , and crossed the Current river several times (which was at times up to our horses shoulder), all in our Bares.
We never missed a step or slipped in the fast current of the river as our horses negotiated over the rocks in the river. The one picture is of my husband and I taken by the professional photographer we bought our picture from, and the other one by a friend on the ride just after we crossed one of the river crossings on the trail.
After our ride we had lots of questions on our boots and how we use them with our natural barefoot horses. The economics of our barefoot/Bare booted horses was only outweighed by the benefits of our horses' healthier hooves we were able to show them over their horses' feet with shoes on. "
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