Re: Cow hocks

["Becky Hackworth" <bechack@sierratel.com>]

CHECK YOUR SHOEING!   Marc has had no problems, but I noticed last year at
DVE (Heather was riding him) I used to ride him not follow))   and his
breakover was all skewed...he did this sort of "twistie" thing as he broke
over.  Didn't really look higher up, but would assume that it would affect
the leg all of the way up!  By the way, have new shoer and he is NOT doing
it anymore@!   Break over is dead even now....
Becky and the gang.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kristi Schaaf" <iluvdez@yahoo.com>
To: <RIDECAMP@endurance.net>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 1:43 PM
Subject: RC: Cow hocks


> Frank wrote: The only thing I would add is, watch the
> hock as the horse "unloads" the leg and pushes
> forward.  Is there: 1) no lateral movement of the
> hock, (2) a little lateral movement of the hock, or
> (3) a lot of lateral movement (i.e., the hock actually
> moves left to right, right to left as the horse
> unloads the leg and pushes forward.
>
> Frank, you are so right! My horse was diagnosed with
> bone spavin last year, after several sound years of
> LSD and CTR's. Sure enough, his hocks torque laterally
> outward as he pushes off at the walk and trot,
> obviously contributing to his bone spavin. Until he
> began having lameness problems, I hadn't noticed how
> much lateral motion there was. Then I watched a horse
> with no lateral motion move, and the difference was
> quite obvious.
>
> Kristi
>
>
>
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> he's a little bit of
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