There's a Peruvian Paso where I board that has been having some serious soundness problems, so he's been on stall rest and thus getting a lot more attention from the rest of us than he might have otherwise.
I think his owner would argue that he does not "wing" as we think of it, but has a distinctive gait. We were standing talking to Fabio over his stall door and noticed that his chest muscles are VERY developed. Looking at him from the side, his chest is probably three or four inches deeper in front of his front legs than it is behind (just in front of where his girth probably lies). He looks like a body builder with pecs. We wondered if this muscle development was a result of the way he moves or was the CAUSE of how he moves. His owner is the sort of person we would all like to sell horses to. She's an older single woman who commutes from her pschyiatric practice in San Francisco to Applegate, where she has her home and horses. She has no pets. Those horses get the best of care. Nancy
