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uk Akhal Teke purchase: Hints from the breeder
Lordosis

Horses suffering from lowering back have weak ligaments and muscles and hardly possess carrying capacity. The back looks like a hammock. The ligaments and bones are excessively loaded. Old horses have frequently a lowering back; broodmares used also for a long time, which are not ridden, are prone to it as well. It can be inherited or from too early load of the back. This deformation cannot be reversed.
  If the horse is ridden consistently in stretch position, it is possible to strengthen again the musculature at the belly and back. Horses with lowering backs are more susceptible to get Kissing Spine; an illness, with which the thorn extensions of the sagging spinal column are inclined towards each other and overlapping. Old horse can have lowering back with the thorns of the spine extensions touching each other but not necessarily.

Axe blow

The axe blow can have its cause from a bad inherited conformation or this conformational mistake can stem from false riding practices. When the neck basis lowers itself and the transition between the lower neck bones and the first thoracic vertebras turns into a stretching position. Frequently the lower neck muscles built up around the neck basis, the lower neck muscles are strongly pronounced; and the top line is only a little bit developed.

  
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Bad conformation.
Axe blow is actually a too low neck with not enough muscles. In extreme cases it is however difficult to put the horse up on the rear legs and make it more up right.

Akhal Teke ORNAY
ORNAY : Correct conformation.