Re: Weak Pasterns

[Truman Prevatt <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>]

At 12:24 PM 5/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a question and I hope I am wording it correctly.  If a horse has
medium to long
>pasterns that tend to flex more than average, would this be a bad trait
for an endurance
>horse?
>
>Dee
>

While not the idea conformation you should be able to strengthen the horse
so that he can still be able to do endurance.  It might take a year more of
"basic training" to get this horse ready, vs. a horse without this
conformation. On the other hand an extra year of basic training never hurt
anyone.

Truman