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Horse Talk!
If you ride young horses you should read this
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<blockquote data-quote="hayray" data-source="post: 366111" data-attributes="member: 3046"><p>Actually there are growth plates at all the joints, it happens that the knees, which are the carpal/metacarpal joint tend to be the most important ones. As far as deciding when to start a young horse in relation to the closing of the growth plates that is only important if you are going to be over-working the young horse like faturity horses and race horses, of which those are all started anyways way before proper closure of the growth plates. If you are just going to be doing some light work to saddle break a horse then it should be no consideration, I have never once even considered that in my training even though I have heard this every since I was a young lad, but I don't train any 2 year olds to be shown so we take a lot of time. There is also ample evidence to show that bone re-modeling occurs at around 2 years of age and this is important to have the bones strengthen in response to some work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hayray, post: 366111, member: 3046"] Actually there are growth plates at all the joints, it happens that the knees, which are the carpal/metacarpal joint tend to be the most important ones. As far as deciding when to start a young horse in relation to the closing of the growth plates that is only important if you are going to be over-working the young horse like faturity horses and race horses, of which those are all started anyways way before proper closure of the growth plates. If you are just going to be doing some light work to saddle break a horse then it should be no consideration, I have never once even considered that in my training even though I have heard this every since I was a young lad, but I don't train any 2 year olds to be shown so we take a lot of time. There is also ample evidence to show that bone re-modeling occurs at around 2 years of age and this is important to have the bones strengthen in response to some work. [/QUOTE]
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