Normal leg position means that when you draw a line through the leg from the top down, the line should be exactly in the middle of the leg all the way to the ground. This horse has straight legs. Furthermore, hocks and the phalangeal joint should have good angles. This is a good starting point, although we find that this does not necessarily have any advantage in terms of utility value and durability. The horses that look like this are probably high/low and get the known problems with them walking differently right/left.

When we look at the horses’ leg positions and their deviations, it’s normal in a description, for example at a show, to deal with bone by bone and joint by joint with a view to deviation from a desired ideal. But it’s not clearly described why they end up the way they do.

In the academic literature, this appears to be a coincidence, and we believe that this is shown to be wrong. By setting up the…