Hindquarters Flashcards
General appearance: Long and lean legs, viewed from behind, perfectly parallel.
Thigh: Long with dry protruding muscles. Coxo-femoral angle is very open (about 130°).
Stifle (Knee): Femoro-tibial angle is very open (about 145°).
Metatarsus (Rear pastern): Tarsus and metatarsus lean, without dewclaws.
Azawakh
Strongly muscled. Fairly Flat appearance with moderate angulation. Second thigh long and well-developed. Hocks well let down.
Sloughi
General Appearance: Seen in profile show an imaginary line from the point of buttock touching the tip of the toes. Seen from behind, an imaginary vertical line from the point of the buttock to the ground divides the hock joints, rear pastern and hind feet in two equal parts. The total height of the hind leg is shorter than the height at the withers (approximately 93%).
Thigh: Long and broad. Length is one third of the height at the withers, flat muscles with back profile of the thigh slightly convex. The angle between pelvis and thigh is approximately 115°.
Stifle (Knee): The angle of the stifle joint is approximately 115°. Lower thigh: Slightly shorter than the thigh with an inclination to the horizontal of 45°. Musculature lean and well defined, light bone structure with marked leg groove.
Hock joint: Length from the point of hock to ground is not longer that 27% of the height at the withers. Broad at the hock joint and with an angle of approximately 135°.
Metatarsus (Rear pastern): Length equal to one third of the length of the foreleg from ground to elbow, cylindrical, perpendicular to the ground. No dewclaws.
Cirneco
Long, strong, straight and lean, no great angulation, long second thigh, turning neither in nor out.
Ibizan
Strong and muscular. Moderate bend of stifle. Well developed second thigh. Limbs parallel when viewed from behind.
Pharaoh
Upright when seen from back and sides; well muscled and lean, parallel to the main body.
Thigh: Long, of medium width, well muscled.
Stifle joint: Femur-tibia angle approximately 135 degrees
Second thigh: Inclined, long, lean, strong and well muscled.
Hock: Of medium height, lean, strong. Open hock angle approximately 135 degrees.
Metatarsus (Rear Pastern): Strong, short, inclined and without dewclaws.
Podengo
In the hind legs the muscles should be clean and well defined with good turn of stifle and strong hocks well let down.
Ridgeback
Strong and parallel when viewed from behind. Well angulated, muscle well developed and broad when seen from side.
Hamiltonstovare
HINDQUARTERS
Thigh: Well descending; muscles very apparent and clean; of moderately strong development.
Hock: Strong and well let down, normally angulated.
Porcelaine
