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Trakehner Times April/May 2024

Trakehner Times – April/May 2024

Show Results Morven Park Spring HT Christine Turner’s TSETSERLEG TSF *Pg* (E.H. Windfall *Pg*E*/Thabana *M*/E.H. Buddenbrock) and Boyd Martin finished 3rd in Open Intermediate. Bred by New Spring Farm. Pat

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Showing The Trakehner In Hand

Showing The Trakehner In Hand

by Erin Brinkman & Reiner Seemann(from the Summer 1997 issue of The American Trakehner) Excellent in-hand presentation requires many months of preparation and analysis of the horse’s body type and

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Figure 2

Figure 2

a – 1st and 2nd cervical vertebrae
b – thoraco-lumbar joint (T18 connection of last rib)
c – last rib
d – lumbo-sacral joint
e – hip joint (pelvis/femur)

Figure 1

Horse Figure 1

a – the back (withers to peak of croup)
b – the body (point of shoulder to point of buttock)
c – the pelvis (point of hip to point of buttock)
d – the rib length (withers to last rib)
e – the shoulder (withers to point of shoulder)
f – the arm (point of shoulder to point of elbow)
g – the elbow to the stifle
h – the knee to the hock

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