Here’s an e-mail from one of our early-on Renegade® users. Ashley Wingert and her father Vern have been using Renegades since 2006, and both completed their first 50-mile endurance ride at Wickenburg this year, with both of their horses wearing Renegades.
Hey Kirt,
Here’s some relevant excerpts from my very long blog post of our first 50-mile ride completion. The boots were awesome…with everything else that goes into a 50, it was nice to know the boots were the one thing I didn’t have to worry about.
From my ride story:
“Over the last two years or so, Dad’s been using Renegade® Hoof Boots. Over the summer, I fiddled with a pair of Dad’s used boots and made them fit Mimi, despite being a size too big. She normally takes 00 boots, 000 in the back.
Yes, tiny feet. However, the Renegades are adjustable enough that I made the size 0 fit her front feet, and kept using the other boots I had been using on her back feet.
Just in the last month, though, they came out with 00 Renegades, which Mimi broke in and proudly showed off at the ride. Now I’m going to see if I can try to “size too large” trick on her back feet and see if I can’t get the 00 Renegades to fit her back
feet. I love the Renegades – they did great on both ponies at the ride. We didn’t have a single boot come off, and the only adjustment that was made was at the first vet check, when Kirt replaced a couple straps on Beamer’s boots with shorter ones.
Neither of the ponies had rubs from their boots, although Mimi’s hind fetlocks and pasterns were liberally coated in Desitin to prevent the other boots from rubbing.
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The very first part of the second loop is a bit nasty…very technical downhill that involves some step-downs along slick rock. I was so glad for hoofboots at that point! Both ponies handled it beautifully, tackling the technical stuff without batting an eyelash. They got a lot of confidence from the security of the boots, that’s for sure.”
You can read the rest of the story on my blog here…but I’ll warn you — my enthusiasm got the better of me and it ended up pretty long-winded and overly detailed.
Thanks again for the awesome boots and fabulous customer service!
–Ashley Wingert
Follow Ashley’s endurance adventures at her Go Pony blog.