Re: cured a lateral canter


"Joyce Reynolds-Ward" <jrw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 03:15:48 GMT, "lizzard woman"
<kimosabeRMOVE@xxxxxxx> wrote:


You're not talking about that classic of the WP ring, the four-beat
canter?

Never seen the lateral version, unless it's a cousin to that four-beat
wonder.

jrw

I think she means the way my younger Scotty "canters" - the vet called it
'bunny-hopping'. Her back legs moved together, still one "leading", but no
temporal separation while the fronts looked almost normal for the gait. I've
seen one horse travel like this and one other that was less obvious. My dog
has remarkably terrible hind-end conformation. After she ruptured the ACL on
one side, we had that repaired and the patellar grooves on both sides
deepened and the patellar tendon attachment relocated on the un-ruptured
side. She now "canters" near-normally but tends back to bunny-hopping
easily.

The one horse had some sort of stifle injury and the vet didn't seem to
think he would return to dressage form ever. The owner wasn't listening
:-( The other horse AFAIK still travels oddly and is no longer showing -
used as a broodmare, but not showing. That owner is not listening either.

Emily


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