Re: Hunter's Bump -- just what is it?

["Lori Bertolucci-Woodard" <llbertol@atnet.net>]

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> From: Snodgrass, Bonnie <snodgrab@ncr.disa.mil>
> To: 'llbertol@atnet.net'; CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com; nevadaghostridr@WEBTV.NET;
Tezza7@aol.com
> Cc: cberto@juno.com; ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: RE: Hunter's Bump -- just what is it?
> Date: Thursday, August 27, 1998 11:49 AM
> 
> Seems most common in long backed horses (lots of those in the QTR horse
> breed). Combine this with  a horse who travels with it's head up and back
> hollow under the saddle and you can easily have a roach back. I used to
ride
> a high headed, long backed jumper who had a pronounced roach to her back.
> She was an outstanding jumper. If you can change how your horse works and
> uses it's head/neck/back then the horses muscular developement and back
> shape will improve.
> 
> Bonnie Snodgrass
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Lori Bertolucci-Woodard [SMTP:llbertol@atnet.net]
> > Sent:	Thursday, August 27, 1998 11:32 AM
> > To:	CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com; nevadaghostridr@WEBTV.NET; Tezza7@aol.com
> > Cc:	cberto@juno.com; ridecamp@endurance.net
> > Subject:	Re: Hunter's Bump -- just what is it?
> > 
> > What causes roach back? I have a quarterhorse mare with this condition
and
> > was wondering about it.
> > Lori B.


My mare is just the opposite of what you speak. Low, natural headset,
short, muscular back and extremely athletic. But I do suspect a nutrition
problem when she was a baby, if not when her mother was carrying her.
Lori B.