Horse Judging: Terms for Oral Reasons, UNL

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• Lacked depth

Feet and Legs • Cannons extend more from the bottom of the knee • Dropped a straighter line from hip to hock to heel • Square column of bone

• Standing more square on all four corners • Stood on a more rugged, durable bone type • Straighter down the knee

• Straighter from hip to hock to heel • Was deeper and wider at the heel • Stood on more substance of bone

• Stood and tracked on a wider, truer base • Stood more correction on all four pasterns • Stood more correctly on hind legs • Stood straighter form knee to toe and hock to heel

• Had more substance of hoof • Had more sloping pastern • When viewed from the side she stood straighter and tret on her front legs • Straighter down the hocks

Faults

• Close at the docks • Soft in knees

• Stands back at the knees • Stand narrow at the base • Stands on a lighter bone

Tracking/Movement • Traveled with more symmetry to his stride • Tracked with more base width • Tracked straighter both to and away • Was truer tracking, showing less deviations from the front and rear views • Shows less deviations from the front and rear • Showed more movement in shoulder • Sounder moving

Faults

• Choppy about their stride • Unsound • Heavy on the forehand

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