Bum high? Hunter bump? Goose rump?

[MeganMarie]

Hello,

I was looking at this (2014) 4yo gelding and he’s a very lovely warmblood, but he is bum high, or he has such a prominent bump on his croup that it makes him appear bum high? I would upload pictures, but i’m not sure how. He seems a good weight and well muscled (for a 4yo). He has a very good jump, loose and under saddle, although his hind end is definitely better than his front. Not sure whether his conformation actually helps his backend over the fences.

I was wondering what your opinions are with this conformation thing. I heard a hunters bump is actually an injury, which I would be surprised with, as wth his age, and he’s only recently broken.

It is VERY prominent - you can’t miss it. So it is a real eye sore. But if it isn’t likely to cause him problems then i’d look past it etc.
i know he’s only 4, so he’s obviously still growing a bit (or i’m hoping he would). He’s 16.2hh atm though. :/ Other than this thing, he didn’t seem gangly or like a horse that needs filling out, which makes me think he doesn’t have much more growing to do, and this is just how he is.

Experiences with your own horses being like this? Did it effect/limit their ability? Or cause injury?
I am looking at him for affiliated show jumping etc. So i’d need to make sure he could actually cope with that. He comes wth vetting & x-rays. But i’ve heard vets can’t fail them because of it, because if it doesn’t cause a problem, then it’s more of an eye sore/conformation fault than anything else.
thanks

 

[ester]

It depends, the thing that you describe as injury is a very pronounce, typically angular sort of bump that indicates SI pain.

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

Like this?

Jeff was a racehorse, a very sucessful one over chase fences and jumped for absolute fun! Since retiring from racing, a change of working style and adding more weight made it virtually disappear.

A year and a half of food and work later:

 

[MotherOfChickens]

It depends, the thing that you describe as injury is a very pronounce, typically angular sort of bump that indicates SI pain.

yep.

whats the rest of his hind leg conformation like? a steep croup usually goes with a straight hock-leads to hock/stifle/SI problems later on. not something I would go for tbh. In a youngster is could mane lack of muscle-rather than the inability to muscle up in the right place but its not something I would feel confident taking a punt on having seen too many older horses with steep/croups or jumpers bump with issues.