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Re: [RC] Crookedness/straightness/diagonals/leads - RISTREEHmmm... maybe my horse isn't chronically minorly frustratingly "a little off" after all!! :-p Sharon, we've got a 15 year old endurance veteran (1000+ miles) who started out crooked, and who my hubby just "sent down the trail" before he started having intermittent lameness issues. I, personally, think he is so crooked that I just turn my head and go "huh?" when I watch him trot out on circles. He'd bounce Rich onto the preferred diagonal, he'd "dog trot" down the trail, he'd canter nearly exclusively on one lead. (As one can imagine, this made the DQ in me absolutely crazy, but intent on staying married, I shut up about it.) And at 40 or 70 or 65 miles, he'd be a little off (it was frequently impossible to identify a single leg, and it varied) and Rich would pull. So with two seasons mostly "off" recuperating from separate suspensory injuries (mild, and quickly resolved) that I am absolutely certain are related to this crookedness, we've redone all his LSD work, insisting on straight. When I ride him now, he feels like a different horse. If left to his own devices, he sneaks back into his old way of traveling, but the stronger he gets, the less this seems to happen. In a couple of weeks, he's "re-debuting" in a 50, and I'm tickled that the old guy might be back! (Wish us luck.) --Patti
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