Despite his goose rump, cow hocks or some other frowned-upon defect, this unconventional ... and a big heart — can make up for a horse’s flawed conformation? After all, if certain top riders ...

"Forelimb conformation receives lots of attention because of perceived predisposition to injury (with various conformational problems)," began Liz Santschi, DVM, Dipl. ACVS, clinical associate ...

She reported that about half of the racehorses evaluated in her study exhibited multiple conformation defects ... Only about a quarter of the horses evaluated had straight knees, and only about ...

A horse’s conformation is determined by the arrangement ... This has always been deemed a bad conformational defect. It is when the knee is offset and the cannon bone is shifted to the side.