if you contrive knee action it goes away imediately once you take off
the device. SOmeone gave me some of those hard leather rings you
strap on a horse's ankles. They look like rolled dog collars and
national bridle shop advertises them as "The device for the orse that
needs no weight!" I think they clunk against the pastern or coronet
band or something and agravate. ANyway. I put them on stonewall and
there was an immediate noticeable difference. before my eyes he
transformed into a high stepper. Then I took them off and he became
normal. I put shoes on his front one time and when I pulled them he
couldnt gait for about three rides. my farrier said it just threw off
his timing and he would have to adjust to changes when shod or unshod
and it does. it takes very little to alter gait. All those heavy
things, dramatic changes, hard to imagine how much it alters things
since even the most subtle thing alters gait. like stonewall will do
nothing but saddlerack with me, in my saddle. With my husband he did
a stepping pace. was it the extra weight or the heavy tucker saddle?
The way my husband sits? anyway.
Janice
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even good horses have bad days sometimes.
