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Kukkie schreef:

@ponypaard... niet weten welke links en rechts is? Het is net als met schoenen met klittenband. Het strookje dat je dicht 'plakt' wijst met het uiteinde naar de buitenkant. Simpeler kan bijna niet.

Citaat:

Glad to hear our boots are popular in your part of the world.

Can't say why the Dutch price is so high. I do not control pricing for our distributors. Perhaps in time, more sales competition will result in more favorable prices?

I'm not understanding why you are seeing multiple boot size prices. Currently, all boot sizes are the same price here in the USA. $84.50 for one boot and $169.00 for one pair plus shipping and handling. Personally I have not witnessed distributors charging more for larger sizes. Perhaps their is some confusion regarding "singles" and "pairs"?

Also, understand that here in the USA we do not have a VAT tax as is common in Europe. The VAT tax varies by country but generally speaking this is going to add about 18% to 22% to the final price. Also, Customs often adds a couple percentage points to the importation.

Insofar as your question regarding wear, yes it would be best to switch boots from side to side but most people don't bother. In my experience, if the hooves are balanced and the conformation of the horse is normal, and if the rider rides properly centered, the boots will wear pretty normally except perhaps for breakover at the toe which may be slightly off center. I do not view this as an issue especially when you consider that the horse is capable of traversing highly uneven terrain. I suppose if one were to do a lot of pavement work then uneven boot wear would be more of an issue but so too is natural terrain uneven. All strapping can be switched from side to side so that a left hand boot can be a right so keeping all strapping ends to the outside (preferred) is easy to do.

Getting slightly off the topic here, these thoughts can be further extended to the concepts of toe angles and heel heights. That is to say many hoof care professionals are in my opinion overly cautious about lowering heels to natural heights as though when the horse is standing still, to change the angle will somehow overload the ligaments and tendons. Yes, some degree of caution is warranted but one must also recognize the extreme range of motion found in the fetlock of the horse wherein the fetlock may actually touch the ground in a galloping horse. Compare that range of motion with a one, two or three degree change in toe angles with the goal being more natural hoof form. I bring up this topic simply because I see too many photos of high heeled horses coming from Europe. The horse evolved to bear weight on the frog and digital cushion and as you may know, the Renegade was specifically designed for naturally low heels and will not perform to ultimate levels on high heeled hooves.

indra2001 schreef:

Ik heb ze nu voor het eerst bij de vierdaagse in Epe ruimschoots gebruikt en het ging super (ook 1 x verkeerd om...stom!!) maar bleef toch goed zitten! Kon zelfs galopperen ook al heeft ze dan heel veel sprong!ha ha..en ik kijk steeds of ik er niet een kwijt ben!!