My Scarlet toes in. She’s also got slightly
offset cannons, and man, does she paddle. It makes for a pretty smooth ride,
though – more like a gaited horse than a trotter. We’ve never had
any lameness issues with the front end, just a couple of time she’s
gotten tight in the rear when we do hilly or muddy rides and I haven’t
been riding much before the ride.
Rae
From:
ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of heidi larson Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006
8:49 PM To: rides2far@xxxxxxxx;
distancerider@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] conformation-toed in
vs. toed out
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.
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