European Trainer Magazine article - 'To shoe or not to shoe...that is the question'

I was delighted to be approached by Lissa Oliver who was writing an article on the rules and regulations in different countries on barefoot racing for The European Trainer Magazine.  It seems a long time ago now (2005) that I trained Saucy Night to be the first racehorse to win a race without wearing shoes.  In those days The Racing Post would make a big thing about it and say ‘the horse ran without shoes’ – now it is not even noticed!  Red Not Blue has now become the best racehorse we've trained to run without shoes with a career high rating over hurdles of 143.  He has won 10 races for us (over hurdles & chasing) and he has never worn shoes since he arrived at the yard back in 2009.  Hopefully you will enjoy reading the article via the link below - p.33 on the internet:

http://issuu.com/anderson-co/docs/issue_43_internet/1