Skid boots can be applied to a horse to prevent burns or other abrasion injuries when a horse comes to a sliding stop. Find out how to put skid boots on a horse with helpful advice from a reining horse trainer in this video on skid boots for horses and protective gear.
Now, there are some other boots that I might use on this horse as well, depending on what I'm doing. If I'm going to go do some real stopping of this horse or I'm going to ask him to really cease his forward motion and get his back legs in the ground and do a sliding stop, for example, that...I would put these on him. And these are called skid boots, obviously, because when the horse is skidding, you want to protect him from basically a rug burn or, you know, that sand, that real abrasive sand, taking the hair off of his back legs. So we'll put these on to protect that. Now, there's a left and a right boot. Now, again, we were talking about how the straps will go from front to back on the splint boots up front. I'll do the same thing behind. I'll leave that one up there, so that it's ready when I go to the other side. Now, this boot, again, Velcro or they come with buckles. You know, there's all kinds of different types of skid boots. These are the kind I like. Now, here's the way this is going to work. This strap is still going to go from front to back. Now, we just have a little flap that closes over it that does go from back to front. But the initial wrap is going to be from front to back. Again, you want to make sure that the horse knows you're there. I start up high, let my hand just run right down his leg so that he knows I'm here. You don't want to just reach at his leg with the boot with your hands and surprise him with it because, boy, that'll...you know, that could be kind of dangerous. There's that front to back. Now, I'm just going to lay that over it, pull it down a little bit. And I do the top one first. Going to make sure this cup lays in right in underneath that ankle very nicely. And I'm going to take this strap front to back, lay it there, put my closure there. Now, that horse is wearing skid boots, and I can go run and stop him now and I'll now that he's safe. He won't burn himself or create an injury there.
