Bare Foot Trimmer -
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Photographer -
We had also given rides on the Saturday and as you can see from the Picture of Majors foot which was taken on the Sunday our horses are coming to no harm being worked on the road with no shoes on.. Our own tours from home involve going into the Battlefield Visitor Centre which has got a huge hill into it. I desribed it to someone as climbing a hundred feet over half a mile. I don't think they believed me. However, because the hill is so steep our horses slip going up it with shoes on and of course coming back down it. This was very apparenent one day when we did a tour with Major, who didn't have any shoes on and Ben who did. Ben was slipping but Major wasn't and the people on the tour noticed it becasue they were horse people themselves. The difference in the two horses was very noticeable and after that we bare foot trimmed.