Horse over at the knee, wobbly leg? Ideas?

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My partners 16.3hh PRE (Spanish horse), has rubbish conformation, he is over at the knee and pigeon toed and all legs as well. When we bought him he had had a splint on the front leg and a bump on the front of the knee. Never affected him so far.
However now as he is getting fitter, his front legs seem wobbly when hes standing still in the box. Its like the stay mechachnism isnt locking theyre casually wobbling like they havent clicked in. If that makes sense. Not affecting ridden work and isnt 100% all of the time, but it seems to be increasing as he gets fitter.

Is this a problem? Getting the vet in 2 weeks so will ask him them but....what could it be? Any experiences?
 
Don't know what it is, but I worked in a racing yard where one of the horses was like that. He raced successfully, albeit not brilliantly, and never had any soundness problems while I was there. However, he was only a three year old, so how he fared later on in life I don't know.
 
Make sure his foot balance is spot on. My new boy used to do this, he is slightly over at the knee and when I bought him he also had awful foot balance on both fronts, one overly long foot and one boxy. The long foot was the leg that is over at the knee. He's had quite a lot of corrective trimming and 6 months on his foot balance is now much improved although still a work in progress. His legs don't wobble any more so I can only put it down to that.
 
I have seen it in several horses with navicular, It always looks to me that they are trying to avoid some pain in the back of the foot
 
hi I know of someone who had a horse who's front legs used to do this.afraid he had arthritis in his neck from an accident I think he fell in the neck in the field and was diagnosed with problems with his neck and his back legs were really all over the place but it affected his front legs too. He wasn't that old but it was to do with trauma from the fall.
 
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