A horse with good conformation is going to have well-formed, symmetrical legs. When the horse is viewed from the front, the observer can drop an imaginary line from the top center of the leg at chest level down through the forearm, knee, cannon, and fetlock to the center bottom of the...
I think the back legs look pretty good there, movement and shape. I'd probably point bind some of the flank muscle to the body so the whole thing doesn't rotate with the leg. It looks like there may be too much shoulder motion in the front legs. They seem a bit detached. ...
Hoof anatomy 101 The old saying “no hoof, no horse” has been around for many years and why it is truly applicable starts with understanding what a hoof is. So let's start with a little anatomy 101. Here is a diagram and an explanation to start the process: The wall of the hoof i...
increased action, when the mare was being removed from the waggon, that she stepped between the ends of two iron rails, sufficiently apart to admit the foot only, when one end of the rail inserted itself between the sole and toe of the shoe, the other at the top and in front of the...
Horse - Evolution, Domestication, Anatomy: The history of the horse family, Equidae, began during the Eocene Epoch. Eohippus (Hyracotherium) was the first ancestral horse to appear. The line leading from Eohippus to Equus, the modern horse, includes Oroh