As well, how many horses do you see at
rides with long toe/low heel syndrome which is probably a bigger contributor
than anything to arthritis in front legs and hock arthritis in rear legs.
Karen
From:
ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 9:03 AM To: mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Ridecamp (E-mail) Subject: RE: [RC] Percentage body
weight (was: Dainty horses)
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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