Get your anatomy books out please!!

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barb Peck bpeck@together.net
From Barb Peck
bpeck@together.net

We all just got back from a ride and (as usual) went over our
horses legs with our hands.

On the hind leg, just above the hock, there is a point about
2 or 3 inches above the hock, where the achilles tendon meets
the superficial digital flexor tendon. It's pretty much where
the back curve is  on the leg just above the hock.

Any way, on 2 of the horses, who are big trotters (11 and 16 yrs.
old) when the
leg is relaxed and under the body, you can feel a very slight
bump... and we're not sure which tendon this is..or it might
even be the inner Gastrocnemius muscle. They *do* react slighty
when it's gently squeezed. (I think it's the flexor tendon)
  These horses are sound, no heat or anything.
On the third horse, also who has a big trot, and more finely
built (and 21 years old)it's there, but VERY slight. No reaction
from her when it's squeezed.
The fourth horse, who's a big horse, but doesn't have a "big"
trot (more the daisy clipper type) its perfectly smooth..
regardless of how the leg is positioned. No reaction from him
when that area is squeezed, he's 11 year old.

Now the question... All of the horses are good movers.. is this
just something that "big trotters" develop?  Or something to
be concerned about down the road.  Of course none of us have
ever noticed this before!!

Thanks,
Barb




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