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Into Mischief looks like his feet need attention here! Does remind me of Northern Dancer! What's wrong with Lord Nelson's front feet? Why is he wearing padded shoes?
A late bloomer in the horse/stud/ game, INTO MISCHIEF ... heard Acacia and Andy talking about IM on their NYRA show. Very interesting, never thought about horses in that sense before - like a ballplayer coming into his own @ 30 instead of 20. Am I right about this? Any other info/corrections concerning IM I'd gladly accept.
I agree, his knees look absolutely horrible in this video. He always had a slight problem there when he was young, but this is a massive issue now. If you pause at 1:44, you gotta wonder how he's still standing. I was also bewildered about how flat and wide his hooves look from the front. Surely these horses get good farriers? Lord Nelson seems to have a really good hoof care, he's walking quite well considering how bad his shape was.
Weirdly being over at the knee, while a fault, shows up in a lot of fast horses. Go look up old photos of Champion sire St. Simon. He was the same way.
@@thorne1239 Actually, I've kind of noticed that. I know from having owned horses that sometimes, they will stop walking midstride and just leave their leg bent like that momentarily. Most of my time has been around Saddlebreds, and I remember that one Saddlebred show trainer told me that pigeon-toedness can be not only corrected with excellent shoeing but enhanced into greater leg action than if the horse had not been pigeon-toed. Still, Saddlebred breeders aren't about to start breeding for that forefoot/foreleg structure fault.
