Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Leg confirmation in High Mileage horses

One time I was at a ride and I was watching horses vet through with Nina 
Warren and she made 
the comment that she didn't even bother guessing which horses would do 
well at a ride (or long term). 

I asked her why and she said had seen too many that had great 
confirmation (so theoretically should have gone thousands of miles) 
came up lame 
early on and others that looked like they shouldn't go 10 feet and stay 
sound (due to some obvious fault) end up racking up many, many miles. I 
think her words of choice included "crapshoot" and "luck" :)

This is from someone who has over 6000 miles just from 1985 on and 
many wins and BC's to her name.

-Tina

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Karen 
wrote:

<snip>
> 'endurance. Boy when you look at the photos you sure can't pick out a high 
> mileage horse from one that isn't.   Funny thing, when you are at a ride -- 
> we sure seem to have an awful lot of 5, 6, 7, 8 and even 10,000 mile horses 
> still going down the trail and they just sort of blend in.  Nobody can tell 
> them apart in a crowd.
> 
> k
> 


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