EponaShoe is favored by owners who have sound horses and wish to keep them that way. A comfortable horse will be much more performant, and EponaShoe is being used at the highest levels of competition. In Dressage, Endurance racing, trotters, and other athletic pursuits, the EponaShoe is the best thing to have on your horse.
EponaShoe for Endurance
For the past several years, some riders of the 100-mile Tevis race in California have finished the race on EponaShoes. The video below shows the horses going over the famous Cougar Rock. Can you spot the horses wearing EponaShoes?
EponaShoe for Dressage
Many dressage riders have their horses in EponaShoes -- not because the horses have soundness issues but because the horse is more comfortable, and because they think the horse will have a longer riding career in EponaShoe. Steffen Peters is the current US champion in Grand Prix and all of his horses are in EponaShoes. In the video below, he rides Lombardi who is in EponaShoes.