Low pasterns?!?

[luckytucky]

I recently looked at this horse. He wasn’t limping or lame. Very sweet guy. Though what I noticed was his pasterns being so low. If I were to buy him, I was restart him in riding, and keep him as a pleasure horse with low jumping everyonce in awhile. Though my question is would it affect him in the long run with his tendons and ligaments?

Here are the photos below!

http://s1006.photobucket.com/user/Molly_Flowerforest/library/Mobile%20Uploads?sort=3&page=1

[AKB]

Low patterns scare me because of suspensory problems. If you really like the horse, get a very good vetting from a good equine vet. Also, please wear a helmet to protect your good brain.

[JB]

I don’t see low pasterns?

[luckytucky]

It might be just me, I just wanted to know if he would be okay with how flexible his pasterns are.

[beowulf]

[QUOTE=JB;8374142]
I don’t see low pasterns? [/QUOTE]
Look @ hind fetlocks.

I see a skinny horse with no muscle… How he is standing does him no favors, but his hinds are a little more slinky than I like too. FWIW, There are other things going on in the picture that alarm me more than his pasterns.

[luckytucky]

[QUOTE=beowulf;8374156]
Look @ hind fetlocks.

I see a skinny horse with no muscle… How he is standing does him no favors, but his hinds are a little more slinky than I like too. FWIW, There are other things going on in the picture that alarm me more than his pasterns.[/QUOTE]

I definetly understand what you see. He is a recent rescue, he has not been ridden in a very long time so he lost muscle, and when they got him in he was skinny, but has gained the weight back. But overall he actually isn’t skinny. That one picture of him skinny was when they first got him!!!

[JB]

I still don’t see anything bad

I looked at the enlargement of this pic
http://s1006.photobucket.com/user/Molly_Flowerforest/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpsu7sdnb7w.jpeg.html

Nothing alarming.

The pic of him in his stall, the LH is angled away which makes it appear lower than it really is, and being weighted a good bit it’s going to look lower as well.

I guess I just can’t make any judgement based on any of these pictures for a variety of reasons. It would be more helpful to see, say, a trot picture with one diagonal fully weighted.

[beowulf]

[QUOTE=JB;8374224]
I still don’t see anything bad

I looked at the enlargement of this pic
http://s1006.photobucket.com/user/Molly_Flowerforest/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpsu7sdnb7w.jpeg.html

Nothing alarming.

The pic of him in his stall, the LH is angled away which makes it appear lower than it really is, and being weighted a good bit it’s going to look lower as well.

I guess I just can’t make any judgement based on any of these pictures for a variety of reasons. It would be more helpful to see, say, a trot picture with one diagonal fully weighted.[/QUOTE]

He’s camped out in that photo. Look @ the one of him in the stall.

[FEIwannabe]

Are the angles broken (hoof and pastern) on all four feet? or is it just my imagination?

[JB]

[QUOTE=beowulf;8374241]
He’s camped out in that photo. Look @ the one of him in the stall.[/QUOTE]

I did - see my quote

I just don’t see a problem, as the pictures are presented. Are they maybe a little soft? Quite possibly. If the rest of the horse is right for the job, I wouldn’t worry about it. But, a different picture, a more proper conformation picture might change my mind.

[TheHotSensitiveType]

I don’t really see ‘low pasterns’ either, but I rode my mare’s dam for years who does have long/low pasterns, and she was never lame. She is in her late teens now and still is being used with no issues.

[meaty_ogre]

I see the typical coon-footed appearance and thickening of the suspensories both fronts and hinds of DSLD/EPSA horses. He also has the lacking topline and droopy overall appearance of DSLD horses, and he’s of Arabian descent and they unfortunately are a breed known to be afflicted.

Frankly I would not even be inclined to ultrasound and take a chance on this horse, but then again I lost my Arabian mare to this terrible disease less than 2 years ago. Maybe I’m more sensitive to it as a result, but I see enough in the pictures that I’d be confident enough in the diagnosis to run, not just walk away from this one.

[Jello]

[QUOTE=FEIwannabe;8374253]
Are the angles broken (hoof and pastern) on all four feet? or is it just my imagination?[/QUOTE]

I see the broken angles on all four, so it’s not just you. Which may be why the pasterns seem low.