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My Ash toes in slightly, hasn't seemed to affect him.  He is large chested, deep and fairly wide.  It's a little more noticable if he's long and needs new shoes. 

 

heidi

 

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> > I'm getting ready to look an endurance prospect that is "slightly" 
> > toed in. I've always heard the saying.."better toed in than toed out". 
> Why 
> > is that?
>
> I dunno, maybe a toed out horse has an extremely narrow chest and a toed
> in one has a slightly wide chest, so at least there's ample room for
> heart & lungs. All I know is that there's lots of good endurance horses
> that are slightly toed in. The first one that comes to mind is Charbiel,
> AERC 100 mile horse of the year, PAC silver medalist, etc. etc. My new
> horse is a little
>  toed in but I liked the rest of him so well figured I'd
> live with it. He seems less toed in now that he's getting in shape.
>
> On the back question. Kaboot was a little rump high if that's what you
> mean. I'd rather he wasn't, but he was. He was kinda heavy on the
> forehand, had a wonderful turbo-trot where he'd spread way out in the
> back and level out, but my new horse that isn't rump high has a much
> better canter.
>
> Angie
>
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