Horseshoe impact pad

A shock-absorbing impact pad for horses, comprising:

• a) a first facing sheet of resilient material;
• b) a second facing sheet of resilient material;
• and
• c) a generally oval-shaped panel being truncated along one end to have an outer perimeter configured to correspond to the hoofprint of a horse, said panel being made of a resilient material and including a honeycomb-configured core having
• i) a plurality of strips of resilient thermoplastic material being bonded together such that the bonds between adjacent strips are at regular intervals and form bond rows regularly spaced in the direction transverse to said bond rows, with the bonds in a bond row being longitudinally offset relative to the bonds in an adjacent bond row, said strips forming cell walls defining a plurality of strips of contiguous regular shaped cells, said core having a first face formed by a first extremity of said cell walls and a second face formed by a second extremity of said cell walls, said first face being bonded to said first facing sheet, and said second face being bonded to said second facing sheet,
• ii) said core comprising a first region and at least one other region, said first region of said core having a plurality of strips of thermoplastic material having a first stiffness characteristic, said other region of said core having a plurality of strips of thermoplastic material having a second stiffness characteristic, and
• iii) whereby when placed between a horseshoe and horse's hoof the pad tends to absorb a substantial part of the shock energy that would otherwise be transmitted to the hoof.