The volume of the gel, paired with the hard shell of the Soft-Ride Boot, creates a gel platform that enables the horse to find its most comfortable hoof angle-similar to humans shifting their feet side to side to find comfort when standing. When worn correctly-and not too loosely, like many ropers and barrel racers tend to do-the deep gel has nowhere to go but up into the foot, creating natural comfort for the horse. The deep gel still reaches into the crevices of a horse’s foot, shoes or no shoes, to push against the frog and provide deep comfort for the horse.
Soft-Ride Equine Comfort Boots’ deep gel orthotic replicates that loading and unloading in nature by pumping the horse’s hoof, even when he’s wearing shoes and standing on hard ground that doesn’t conform to his hooves. For millennia, that is how the horse’s feet and legs stayed healthy. That soil filled the nooks of a horse’s hooves, naturally pumping the frog and digital cushion. Much like a human standing on hard ground, a horse moves his weight back and forth from leg to leg, loading and unloading his weight, to pump his blood, which decreases inflammation that causes pain.Īs horses evolved in nature, their frogs were constantly in contact with the ground, usually in soft, sandy soil. The horse’s weight then compresses the frog on the ground, squeezing the blood out of the digital cushion, and pushing it back up the horse’s legs–known as hemodynamics. The blood flows down the horse’s leg into the digital cushion, a part of the inner hoof above the frog, which contains a network of blood vessels. You might have even rolled your eyes and thought those team ropers don’t know that horses have stood around for centuries without cushioned feet-but you’d be wrong.Ī horse’s frog is a critical part of the animal’s circulatory system. If you’ve strolled around the parking lot at a team roping or rodeo lately, you’ve probably seen a trailer or two with horses sporting Soft-Ride Equine Comfort Boots instead of standing flat on the ground.
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