We do a lot of horseback riding in the Eagle Cap Wilderness, here in Northeastern Oregon. The horses have a hard time, when wearing iron shoes, of keeping their feet under them on the slick granit rocks. Also the trails are very rocky. Our pack horse had his feet go out from under him, on a tight switchback in the trail. The large granit rock was smooth and clear across the trail. He had taken the corner a little wide, so he was on the slope of the rock, the iron shoes are very slick on these rocks. He almost went over the side. By helping him, by pulling on the leadrope, he was able to get his feet back under himself. Then he lost a shoe, we were two days back in the mountains, so he had a very bad stone bruse by the time the ride was over. That is how I came to be using the Barrier Boot. I have used the Easy boot, found it very hard to put on the horse, and we find a lot of lost Easy boots in the mountains. I had to keep the Barrier boot on the horse for about 10 days for the stone bruse to heal. A second horse had also lost shoes in the mountains, so he too was very sore footed. After I placed the Barrier boots on, the horse took a couple of steps, and found his feet were not hurting, and he took off across the pasture. I have had one person say the Barrier boot had rubbed on the bulbs on the back of the hoof, I don’t know if this was becaue the boot was too loose or to tight. She said the boot would not stay on unless it was real tight than it rubbed the back of the hoof. I don’t know if a light wrap would help or not. I have not had this happen yet. We do enjoy our horses so we try to find ways to make things easier for the horse.