LETTERS

More on bones

I just recently ran across the interesting and informative article “Bones Speak Volumes” (Conformation Insights, EQUUS 482), and I have an observation I would like to offer.

I am director emeritus of the Spanish Mustang Registry, founded by Robert E. Brislawn and others. Bob, or Mr. Mustang, as I knew him, was very much interested in bones, and he passed that interest to me. He was especially interested in the importance of the cannon bone and the lumbar vertebrae, as Deb Bennett, PhD, also discussed in great detail.

Bob classified mustangs’ lumbar vertebrae as having five, six, or five plus another (partial) piece of one. He was of