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A horse will "swing" in hoof flight in the opposite direction of the toes.  Meaning, a toed-in horse will paddle (or at least have a tendency to) and a toed-out horse will swing in...therefore increase the chance of interference.

 

I have had much success with some slightly toed-in horses over the years...but I will NOT buy a toed-out horse because of the chance of intereference.

 

Just my two cents worth.

 

Jody

heidi larson <ribbitttreefrog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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