Equus, Jan. 2010 issue 388, has a very good article written by Deb Bennett, PhD called "Conformation Insights, A sense of Proportion". Goes along with what we're discussing, bone size in relationship to height, weight. Has some very good diagrams and visual comparisons.
Laura of Cal.
--- In haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com, Emily Gibson <briarcroft@...> wrote:
>
> Hi again Dawn,
>
> I should have known better than to take on someone who wrote a paper on the
> subject! I appreciate your knowledge and research into this and obviously
> you then know well the disagreements that exist among vets, conformation
> experts and equine physiologists about what constitutes adequate "bone" for
> optimum performance, weight bearing, force bearing and long term soundness.
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