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While it's "not in the rules", I've seen vets ask a rider to trot in a 
circle to make sure they are 'not seeing something.'

My experience has been that you can feel a slight lameness from the 
saddle - especially on curves before you see it.  Then there is the 
horse that keeps throwing you off one diagonal (who doesn't normally do 
this) and the horse that normall takes both leads only taking one is 
probably developing a problem and you can detect it from the saddle long 
before you see it. Of course you have to be honest with yourself to 
detect it.

Truman

Dbeverly4@xxxxxxx wrote:

> In a message dated 8/23/2005 8:11:24 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
> tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> > I've even seen one vet do it that is now in western Canada. I don't
> > think it's a regional thing but a vet thing. The ones I've seen do it
> > can watch two horses trot while the quickly feel the tendons.
>
>
>
> They feel the tendons WHILE the horses's trot? They must be fast ;).
>
> I'm not saying that they can't see a big lameness on a straight trot, 
> THREE horses at a time, but we both know that a very slight lameness 
> will not show up on a straight trot (even if its one horse trotting at 
> a time).  For people who don't do their own lameness exams  (watch 
> their horse trot in a circle) and just rely on ride vets to tell them 
> their horse is sound, they're missing a big piece of the picture and 
> I'm sure most ride vets would TELL them that.
>
> Sylvia



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of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."    Niels Bohr 
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