In a message of , Debby Taylor (1:208/606) writes:
 >GT>Hi there horse-back-riding folks.
 >  >A friend of mine on the internet in Germany and associated with a
 >  >small company manufacturing a patented-PLASTIC-horseshoe is wondering
 >  >IF there might be an interest in it in the USA ???
 >
 >I wish more people here would use them when riding in tall, dry grass.
 >Up near my mom's house a fire was started when a horse's shoe struck a
 >rock.  There is  alot of iron in those rocks and they spark easy.
The only shoes I've seen (in the ads) have a metal part which nails on to the 
horse's hoof as usual, and then the non-metal shoe part snaps on to the metal 
base.  I can't figure out how they work -- wouldn't you have to pull the 
metal base just as often as any metal shoe because of the way the horse's 
hoof grows out?  Seems like you'd have to be able to re-set the base or it 
wouldn't be worth it.
And I'm not sure if the snap-on part covers up the whole base; if not, 
wouldn't the metal studs which lock into the 'sneaker' part still cause 
sparks from rocks?  
Confusedly yours,
Jan
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