Limb deformities - does anyone recognise Ruey?

Rueysmum

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It's a long shot, I know, but, to cut a long story cut short, I bought my 12 year old gelding from Reading market on 6th Feb 1998.

He would have foaled in 1995, or thereabouts, possibly in the Herts, Essex, Berks area.

Possibly ID X, no white, very good looking, but he has a fairly catastrophic near fore limb deviation. The knee turns inwards by approximately 45 degrees and he also has an associated fetlock twist.

I bought him at rising 3, he was broken to ride at 4 and we enjoyed around 7-8 years of low level riding club/hacking/schooling activities until I called it a day last February. He had had almost a year off through pharyngeal problems and his knee arthritis was also a consideration.

His manner are impeccable (and is charisma personisifed.) Ruey is now a much loved pet, but somebody must have bred him!

He is short coupled, ID X possibly. Does anyone recognise him? It sounds to me as if his limb deviaton problems were caught too late (so late that I didn't even recognise them when I first saw them
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) Pillock though I may be!

Was he privately bred? If so, rest assured he is much loved and in a home for life as an expensive, exceedingly charismatic pet.
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