Re: wide gait in hind end

[Zebella <zebella@idt.net>]

Cam/Shannon Wood wrote:    Is there a certain conformation that produces
> this action ? (ie, base wide to begin with?)  And has it caused any harm to
> those horses that move this way, or are they all happily trotting down the
> trail with no problems?
>  

We have an Arab gelding  as skinny and narrow as they come, but he trots
like a Standardbred in the rear, verrry wide. haven't clocked him, but
he is still trotting when others are at a gallop.

Never been lame a day in his life.

tracy