No one here had said sickle hocks are a good thing, but I was looking for a Thoroughbred to bring along and re-sell (in the days when I used to actually sell horses) and a friend said she had seen a lovely TB mare over in Eastern Oregon at a disbersal sale. The owner had been ill and had two big high dessert pens of nearly untouched mares and colts. She said she was a nice mare, other than that she had sickle hocks . She felt that sometimes that wasn't a bad thing in a dressage horse because it made it easy for them to get their hind legs under them. I went over and bought this six year old brown mare.
She was just barely halter broke, but had a wonderful mind. Everything went well with her and she learned quickly and was probably about as good as we all hoped she would be. I sold her to a young woman from California who took her to some sort of evaluation for dressage horses. I can't spell it, sounds like kurring. She was judged the best dressage prospect, based on her conformation, of any horse on the grounds that day and sold for four times what I'd got for her. She went into someone's broodmare band to produce warmbloods. She was quite sickle-hocked. Nancy
