Steel Toe boots are perfectly safe with horses and the steal will not cut your toes off. That myth was busted on mythbusters quite awhile ago, more of an old wives tale thought everyone says they know someone it happened too but can never say exactly who first hand.

I do agree they are heavy though.

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he will have to accept that his life will be radically changed. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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