Re: Hunter's Bump

["Lori & Roger Sumrall" <sumralls@gateway.net>]

According to my information, there are "hunter's bumps" on hunter type
horses that, I've been told, are due to the torn ligament theory.

I've asked a sport horse veterinarian about the appearance of a similar
"hump" on many of the top-ten 100-mile endurance horses (who probably
aren't tripping all over the trail or they wouldn't be where they are).  He
said on these endurance horses it was not a so-called hunter's bump, but
instead was as a result of these particular horses not having the fat
stores of some other distance horses or non-distance horses, so that merely
the tuber sacrale (both of them, I guess) of the left and right ilium
protrude.

What's your opinion on this, Heidi?