Back at the knee
Dec 27th, 2008 by Bert
Christmas at Black Towers was a fairly quiet affair with most of the family ill. It was pleasant though - traditional and understated. We’ve all had the flu now, and I blame the flights to and from Lapland. I’d love to see a statistical analysis of how much of the time people get ill after flights - if I’m a representative sample it would be a high percentage.
An otherwise quiet Christmas day was interrupted when a couple of horses appeared at the front of the house, having got out of the paddock - we resolved the situation fairly quickly and the gap in the fence was patched. My mares are all elsewhere, mostly at Newmarket. A couple of pictures arrived from Duke’s Stud, which I’ve scanned in;
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Shawhill is considered to be fairly severely “back at the knee” by Tom Goff - he also thinks she is a little light of bone but otherwise ok. I’ve cut and pasted her front leg and overlaid the outline of Veiled Beauty’s front leg for comparison - you can see that Shawhill’s leg goes forward below the knee by comparison to VBs........ ..
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I am going with Starluck today.
Found the comments about back of the knee interesting, what impact upon Shawhill’s racing career will this have? Also in humans if you exercise bones strengthen and thicken, therefore with the correct training could defecit in bone be corrected even if only marginally?
You hid the Welsh National winner in your Happy Christmas message - I fear the ‘bah humbug’ brigade may have missed it !
Bert when you said you resolved the situation fairly quickly with the two escaped horses at the door i honestly thought you were going to say you blsted them with a 12 bore shooter……fing hilarious mate when i think about it and how you own and lovwe horses. I just though you might have had a bad day anfd thought f this i will stop this happening again….BANG BANG. LOL