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I had long since come to the conclusion that the so-called

propensity to club-footedness in Morgans was actually

just the extremely bad co-incidence of the Morgan's

natural thriftiness ("gets fat on air") combined with

the current fashion to feed youngsters for rapid

growth, both for show and to make them more marketable

as yearlings.

Grow too fast-->OCD/DOD-->pain-->contracture-->club foot

Linda B. Merims

Massachusetts, USA