Upright Hocks - post legs

[Twinkletoes]

When I had my lovely gg vetted the vet did comment that she had quite upright hocks, as did my AI friend/YO. They both however were not overly concerned and have seen much worse, but said if they had to flag up anything fault wise that would be it. My farrier who is worth his weight in gold met her last night and the first thing he said was straight back legs

. Again, he saw her move and said what a catch I have, but def has got me thinking. I am doing RC level activities, dabbling in a bit of everything, but have been told she has very straight paces and expressive movement so my goal is to progress with dressage. Jumping wise not too worried as I still have my 14.1hh jumping machine but would really appreciate advice on disadvantages of this 'fault' and things to watch out for. Sorry no pix. She is not 'post' legged but yes, it is something you would notice.

 

[AmyMay]

Is there a question???

 

[Twinkletoes]

Erm, sorry, too busy staring at giant easter egg just been planted on my desk and contemplating if 1023 is too early to start choccie binge. Just like to know if anyone has or has had a horse with this & what limitations it can cause, and dangers of this.

 

[AmyMay]

LOL - funny girl!

Well a friend has a horse with particularly striaght hocks. It's never stopped her from doing what she wanted with it. Although she doesn't compete per se. Just small local shows every now and again.

Theoretically will be weak behind with this sort of confirmation, and so it could be a problem at some stage in it's life. Thinking of things like OCD. etc.

Have you bought the horse?

 

[Twinkletoes]

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s230/Ashurstfella/DSCN0402_copy.jpg
this is her, think u saw her the other day in my What do U think post. As u can see prob is not huge but now its 3 people that have commented on it I wanted to know if anyone else could share their knowledge. Totally sound at mo, straight moving, and belly going down slowly lol. Pic was Sept. x

 

[AmyMay]

Duhh, sorry being dum. Of course you've got her. And I still love her - although you can't really see if she's straight or not from these pics.

Well - I wouldn't give it a second thought. Do exactly what you want to do with her, and cross the bridge when you get to it if any problems arise. Bet they won't though.

Just enjoy your beautiful mare.

 

[samp]

My horse has quite upright hind legs and she is a jumpping machine and has a good gallop in her. She has always acheived 64% - 72% in dressage. I do not see it as a disadvantage and she has a powerful bum and thighs

 

[Twinkletoes]

Ah, thanks. Tend to try to live for the now, like u say, but as a few people have commented I thought I should maybe look in to this more. Thanks for your comments. x

 

[Nailed]

Okay..yeh there upright all right.
The level of competition you want to dois notgoing tobe affected by this and if the farrier/vet are happy with everything else i wouldn't see aproblem.
Lou x

 

[Sal_E]

My horse is a bit too straight behind (& a touch croup high) which means she's not really 'built' for dressage - not naturally inclined to work from behind, sit down, get off forehand etc. I have struggled with all of these things, but it's certainly coming & can be improved with correct schooling.

 

[Sal_E]

Here's a photo of her, not sure how your horse's confirmation compares? (this was taken last year, she's not looking quite so porkie now & got muscles in better places!

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[GoJo]

my boys go straight hind legs and hocks- the vet said tht he could not possibly do dressage and with this type of conformation he will have problems with arthritis. He's been at the vets recently for a suspensory injury and they x rayed his hocks and there are arthritic changes there but he's 15 now so kind of expected.
He does have problems tracking up and is very on the forehand so consequently his back end is underdeveloped compared to his front. Think its just a matter of correct schooling and working on the problem .
This is him- you can see he's very upright behind but doesn't stop him from jumping and hooning about