Your Horse's Limbs: Does Form Follow Function?
No hoof, no horse is a time-tested adage. So, too, is the advice -- given in countless books, articles, and videos -- to scrutinize a horse's conformation carefully before you buy. No doubt you've seen the photos and illustrations of "good" and "bad" conformation, and you've studied them carefully and tried to measure prospective mounts against the ideal. But just what constitutes "ideal?" To some people, ideal might mean "prettiest" or "most pleasing to the eye." To others, it might mean "best suited to my chosen discipline," regardless of how it looks. To still others, it might mean "most likely to remain sound" or a combination of all three. As anyone who has ever bought a young horse as a "prospect" can attest, at times there seems to be no relationship among so-called good conformation, performance success, and career longevity.
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