we're not the only one's talking about Poly
"Years ago I started thinking for the first time that we watch and shoe horses on pretty rigid footing, simply because in deep sand it's hard to judge anything about feet right?
When I bring back horses (in my case mostly reiners) and walk them through the indoor I noticed that the majority will start pushing their toes in the sand while on a hard surface they land even. (Well morst of them )
A horse running on sand will land with his feet stretched out in front of him right? Not when the foot is even and straight down like when we judge the horse before and after shoeing. What happens to those heels in that soft footing? It gets pushed in I guess making breakover that much harder.
I can see this happening on grass too, probably less but at full speed those TB hit the deck hard! On a synthetic surface the heels dig in less or not at all making breakover easier and because of that relieving navicular area, deep flexor muscles and allowing the horse to use it's back for running rather than for pulling it's feet out of the ground.
And what about pot holes caused by one of the horses in front? Ever thought about what would happen when a race horse hits the edge of that hole when running for the roses?
I think those synthetic courses may save a lot of horses and help in giving horses equal chances too.
Ronald Aalders"
they are also concerned about the kickback and horses and people breeathing in that stuff
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