re: Stride Length

["R. M. Raymond" <keishastar@juno.com>]

BMcCrary27 writes:
<< I've had four endurance horses develop injured suspensories, and I
kept 
wondering what I was doing wrong.  I finally figured out the common 
denominator: I love a horse with a blazing fast trot.  Each of these
horses 
either had, or developed a very fast trot, even though three of the four
were 
only 14.2 or 14.3 hands.  The fast trot was achieved by tremendous reach,

thus hyper-extension leading to injured suspensories.
 
 Barbara McCrary >>

Tivers@aol.com 
<Yep.

   ti>

So does this mean that the 14.2 hand mare I have, that has been clocked
at 17 mph with a bicycle, and who prefers to trot than canter, shouldn't
be going so fast?

[Rose]
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