Bell boot length?

How close to the ground should bell boots be? I just bought some for my horse and they are only about 3 centimetres off the ground. In the arena they are touching the dirt, but the next size down was too tight on my horse's pasterns.

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Permalink Reply by MagsNMe on September 20, 2010 at 8:41pm

That depends on what you have them on for. For purposes of ensuring that a forger doesn't pull a shoe, they'd better be down to barely brushing the ground. Which would mean you'd need a couple sizes bigger. IMHO of course.