At 19:28:02 on 03.02.11, emms wrote:
ok so if your horse is shod and the shoes are then removed and your horse trots up lame, would you consider him lame when shod or not, Thought please :)

At 01:48:18 on 16.05.11, HorsesLendUsWings wrote:
Lame or just 'footy' unshod? Shoeing can mask issues a horse may have making it appear sound when it isn't. But taking the shoes off a horse and trotting it up (on what surface?)is not a fair test of a horse's soundness or otherwise. If a horse has been shod for a while it could just need time/conditioning to become sound unshod. There are loads of variables :)