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Anyone know about horseshoes?

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Oldguy

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I've found my share of horse shoes before, but I have never seen one like this. It is made out of a light weight silver colored metal, probably aluminum, with a leather pad glued to the back. Anyone ever heard of an aluminum horseshoe?
 
I have 2 of them ive found also. I assume they arent crazy old as aluminum wasnt widely used until the 30s or 40s i believe. .. im not a horse person but i suppose the light weight would help the horse run faster...
 
I also think they were used in horse racing. :shrug:
 
It appears to have been nailed on with iron or steel nails. Some rusted nails are still in the horseshoe.
 
They were lightweight and , for that number of furlongs, be it 3 to 8, would work nicely.. That being said, we only got one race per set of shoes.. it was a pretty expensive system of shoing the horses

Micheal
 
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