StreetMutt wrote:
Here is the same horse (my lil Buttercup image ) with pics taken about 2 years apart. Notice the difference in the loin. Her loin weakness wasn't THAT bad, but you can tell it isn't that strong -- most of her HQ weakness seems to be a result of many different confo factors, not just a weak loin. The second pic shows a slightly stronger loin (which will only improve as she strengthens). As Appy said, a long loin isn't necessarily a weak loin ... it just predisposes a loin to weakness. You can always support it with the right kind of muscling. If the horse has a nice engine, he'll likely coil his loins nicely and build a strong loin dispite is being long.

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I see what you mean. In the first photo there is a slight rise from her back to her croup. In the second photo it is more flush from back to croup to hindquarters. It looks almost like a roachback. So, if a horse has a weak loin and you do work like teaching them to reach up under themselves in the trot that helps build a better loin?