{"id":6747,"date":"2015-09-20T02:41:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T19:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6747"},"modified":"2019-03-21T13:40:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T19:40:53","slug":"the-importance-of-limb-conformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/the-importance-of-limb-conformation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Limb Conformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">Many a horse owner who has been saddled with weeks of stall rest, repeat veterinary visits, or injury rehab has likely uttered this point, complaining about horses\u2019 tendency to strain tendons, chip knees, and manifest various musculoskeletal afflictions. Sometimes we wish horses came with a foolproof plan for promoting optimal performance without injury.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\n<p class=\"p3\">To read more of this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/33716\/the-importance-of-limb-conformation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conformation standards provide the closest thing to such a blueprint; conventional wisdom holds that conformation faults\u2014deviations from the ideal proportions of the horse\u2019s limbs and body and relationship of these parts to one another\u2014can increase risk of injury and decrease performance ability.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19,40],"tags":[246,245],"class_list":["post-6747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-soundness","category-thehorse","tag-conformation","tag-limb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8642,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747\/revisions\/8642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}