Some horses don't need studs...

One of the common questions about barefoot is how you cope without studs. In fact (ironically!) in the same edition of Horse and Hound which I talked about here: http://rockleyfarm.blogspot.com/2010/05/horse-and-hound-verifies-barefoot.html there was a comment by a showing judge who was worried about unshod horses being more prone to slipping on grass than shod horses.

Lots of us (including me) wrote to H&H confirming that we've not found barefoot horses more prone to slipping - in fact often the opposite - but for anyone who still isn't sure despite all the evidence from sound barefoot horses, here is Felix's video from last week - of course all the horses who went round shod had studs in, but despite that he beat all but 2 of them ;-)

http://www.vimeo.com/12358403