My Opportune Meeting with 'Mr. Easyboot' Right on the Trail at just the Right Time!!
"I'm passionate about the sport of Endurance Riding. Apart from meeting my husband Mernie, it's the best thing that's happened to my equine orientated existence. However, I'm happy to say that I'm even more passionate about keeping my horses barefoot and healthy right from the ground up. I trim my own horses and use Easyboots to help protect their hooves; those precious structures that faithfully carry both of us everywhere we want to go.
Flambeau is a hot-headed, easily wound up racing machine. We refer to some of
his gymnastic maneuvers as "the Flambeau Flip!" I'll have to admit I too can get
pretty competitive and loopy at times. So I've had a love hate relationship with
hoof boots and their tendency to be launched into orbit by my plunging and
lunging Flamboyant Arab. Thankfully, trial and error has led me to the Easy
Boot Glove. Flambeau is a great test pilot for hoof boots or anything else
us humans try to attach to him. He can throw a boot so far off the trail you'll
need an aircraft or maybe a sniffer dog to retrieve it! He takes off so fast he
leaves a hole in the ground.
Strawberry Fields Forever Endurance Ride in
Utah this year was the real test. Mud, slush, rocks, rocks and mud, slushy rocky
water crossings, straight up, straight down, bogs left right and in between. Did
they stay on? Almost! His back left popped off right when he was really wound up
and racing with the hot shots. Bummer! I stopped to get off and fix it and, with
riders going passed him, you can imagine just what a rodeo that was! Flambeau
was spinning around with me chasing this near back hoof in a futile effort to
remove the boot when a voice call out, " Need help?" "Yes", I replied,
"this bloody boot has come off!" Can you believe it, it was Garrett Ford,
Mr Easyboot himself, He kindly and expertly put the boot back on and
advised me I needed a size smaller on the back. He then ensured me he'd fix that
problem back in camp; which he did. Off I rode through the muck .
I ended up
riding one hundred miles with ones on the front and Os on the rear through the
most horrendous mud you can ever image and they DID NOT BUDGE! I was starting to
think Flambeau was simply a horse impossible to keep booted. I now know that's
not true. Garrett showed me he how it requires technique rather than strength
to apply the boot and how important it is to have a really snug fit in such
adverse conditions.
I love the Easyboot Glove. They're light, durable, easy
to apply and remove and they look great! Thank you Garrett for coming to my
rescue and providing me with a product I can depend on through 'hell and high
water!'
Ronda Eden aka Ronnie Roo Laramie, Wyoming."
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