From the day he was born Maestro has had amazing floating movement and I have been waiting for the day to start riding him with deep anticipation.  He took a while to mature mentally, so we did not start to train him until he was four.  Then he got injured by a neighbor's dog and we gave him time off to heal.  It was a very bad cut from the hock to the fetlock down the front of his cannon.  Amazingly it missed all the tendons.  The scar is obvious but not as bad as I would have thought from the cut - I think due to the fact that we kept him in pasture throughout his treatment and recovery.  Walking on it does wonders for horses.  We have been trail riding him off and on for the last year and he is doing extremely well.