I am so proud of my gelding, Liable! He's 15 yrs old now. I haven't ridden him but once since I had my knee done back in Feb. but I brought him to the house, round-penned him and really gave him a one-day clinic. He was great! Then early this morning, we were asked to take the first flight. He was fabulous! soft and responsive, no silly stuff like he can do at times. We ran fast over rough territory after a bob-tailed coyote. There were four riders that rode barefoot horses in the hunt, one of them being the huntsman's wife. Her horse would have been destroyed years ago had I not told her about barefoot and trimmed her horse then showed her how to trim. Her husband, bless his heart, has a new horse shod on all four. I guess he feels he must have shoes on his horse because he is the professional huntsman but I always hate to see nice horses ruined for life with shoes! There are other  people in our hunt that shoe their horses too and I just think, ignorance is bliss! For them, its harder to do something different when they've always done what they've always done. So they'll eventually put their horses down for lamenss while I continue to ride my barefoot horses.