sbsmiths
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Can someone please explain exactly what the term "topline" means. Thanks
Topline
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Ginny24
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*Will happily be corrected by anyone on here*
As far as I know its the muscle on top of the horses back, and bum. Horses who lack topline will have a '^' shape on their backs. The highest point been the back bone. Whilst those with more topline will be more rounded. I will try and add some pics from the internet in a moment.
ETA: Vision is a good example of no topline
Here you can see her bum (un-level, she was resting a leg)
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc252/_ginny_/DSCF8863.jpg
Can you see how the back bone does not run smoothly into her bum, it sticks up a bit.
This is her side http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc252/_ginny_/DSCF8881.jpg
You can quite clearly see here how her back bone sticks out more, if she had topline the bone would be covered by muscle and would make it look smoother.
As far as I know its the muscle on top of the horses back, and bum. Horses who lack topline will have a '^' shape on their backs. The highest point been the back bone. Whilst those with more topline will be more rounded. I will try and add some pics from the internet in a moment.
ETA: Vision is a good example of no topline
Here you can see her bum (un-level, she was resting a leg)
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc252/_ginny_/DSCF8863.jpg
Can you see how the back bone does not run smoothly into her bum, it sticks up a bit.
This is her side http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc252/_ginny_/DSCF8881.jpg
You can quite clearly see here how her back bone sticks out more, if she had topline the bone would be covered by muscle and would make it look smoother.
sbsmiths
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Thankyou so much, i fully understand and thankyou for describing with the pictures it made it clear for me to understand
