I wouldn't personally damn them outright because they will have a place in the market and will be entirely suitable and appropriate for some horses and for some owners. If by chance the horses that might benefit are owned by the owners that recognise that then all the better!

However the way they're being marketed and presented and even the colour makes me think it's yet another think for those silly women owners that have daft ideas about farriery and hoofcare. So that clump of idiots that think barefoot is best or who frankly don't want to pay a farrier for decent hoofcare.

If that minority crap infects more over here then that would be a backward step considering our context of legislation, qualification and regulation in relation to those that apply metal shoes. So far though they're just being sold to and applied by farriers.