TWOROPES
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I bought a little foundation ranch gelding out of East Texas, hauled him 200 miles home, let him rest two days and then gave him two days light riden to get used to him. Horse went slightly lame on the front right on third morning. I figured he was soft footed coming out of sand onto rocks so I let him sit, that was three weeks ago. Vet comes out, x-rays horse, says there is nothing wrong with him, he must have a bruised sole. I want to shoe horse and see if that fixes it, vet says not to, a nail could carry bacteria into bruise and cause an abcess. I havent seen a bruised horse stay lame that long and think he is just tenderfooted as all hell. Any comments.