I am sure there are some that do, but....... According to some this can be the "high low syndrome." This can come from (amoung other things ) the horse perferring one leg in front when he grazes which will (in theory ) cause the heel in the front to be shorter and he heel of the hind front leg to be longer. I've seen my Arabs many times grazing with one front leg ( usually the same leg ) in the front of themselves and the other under their body. I have never seen my walking horses always using the same leg in front. They will either change or their front legs or more likely graze with their front legs square. That's right their mouth can eat grass while their front legs are square. Maybe their necks are longer or their shoulders are looser so they don't have as much trouble reaching the ground. I don't know, just as observation. Also on my walking horses (3 of them) the front feet are exactly the same. You could make two shoes for the left front and shoe both front feet.
On three of my four Arabs the front feet are all slightly different. So here we have a four rat and a three rat experiment. Of course we can't draw any conclusions from this but I find it interesting that I am not fighting the same shoeing issues on the two different breeds. How about the saddlebreds owners out there, any input. Truman Bob & Amber Roberts wrote: >All this talk about uneven shoulders - do gaited horses ever have that >problem? Also, if you don't post at all, but simply go side to side as the >horse moves, would that eliminate unevenness? I ask because one of my >horses is a gaited and non-gaited mix who has a gait all of his own and I >can't post it, I just kind of move side to side. > >Amber > > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. > Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
