ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: endurance-digest V1 #39
Re: endurance-digest V1 #39
Sweau@aol.com
Thu, 22 Jun 1995 21:19:53 -0400
In reference to the Arabs and Arab crosses who are wide in the back, not
necessarily to worry. My 12 year old gelding does the same thing. Tony
Gonzales mentioned at a clinic we went to last year, that this is quite
common and as long as your farrier evaluates the whole horse, (not just from
the knee down) these horses actually travel just fine and hold up just as
well as others. My gelding is so wide in the back when trotting, that he
actually looks like a little kid running across the floor with a dirty
diaper! Its the only way I know to explain what he looks like. But we
evaluate his whole body when shoeing work is done and he's sound as a dollar,
and extremely powerful at the trot.
linda sherrill
justus arabians
.....dedicated to the Davenport Arabian....