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Využití neokovaných koní v parkurovém skákání
MIHALIKOVÁ, Eliška
It is not only in the Czech Republic that the barefoot trend is on the rise, i.e. the trend of horses without shoes, which are merely corrected. Several factors influence the decision whether or not to shoe a horse. Among the most important are the horse's work use and the surface the horse moves on, the condition of the hoof horn and economic considerations. In this study, the management and sport performance of 13 shod and 13 unshod park horses were compared. The horses were divided according to performance into 3 categories. In terms of training structure, a statistically significant difference (P0.05) was probably found only when comparing the time spent on field rides between shod and unshod horses of category Z and ZL. On average, shod horses spent 198 minutes per month in the field and unshod horses 100 minutes per month. There was no statistically significant difference between the amounts of jumping and riding work in either performance category. Furthermore, there was a statistically significant difference (rank P0.01) in the mean of all penalty points for ST*, T* and T** performance horses, with an average of 3.1 penalty points per unhooked horse and 5.58 penalty points per shod horse. Undocking had no effect on the sporting performance of the horse, therefore horse owners and riders need not worry about poorer results in sport and only shoe in the case of undocked horn.
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