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Sure.  For exactly the reasons I stated.  Endurance riders all too often do not a) select horses capable of balancing under saddle, and b) do not work with the ones that are capable to ensure that they do it.

 

That does not mean that horses PROPERLY RIDDEN need stress their forehands going downhill--one only has to ride it the right way once to know the difference.  This is by and large a preventable problem.

 

Heidi

Mitch Benson, who vetted Tevis among others, told me more than once that he commonly saw arthritic forelegs in older endurance Arabs, which he attributed to the downhill work.

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