From hock joint to ground perpendicular.
The hock joint and metatarsals lie in a straight line below the hip joint .
a swelling of the hock joint of a horse; resulting in lameness.
Tail bushy, with the last vertebra extended at least to the hock joint.
HINDQUARTERS: set parallel, slightly open at level of stifle and hock joint. Legs short. Metatarsales thick, straight set.
The rear legs have the previously described culottes, and in mature dogs, light feathering from hock joint to the foot.
The upper thighs are well-muscled and powerful, the stifles well bent, the hock joint well defined and set low to the ground.
The rear legs are broad and heavily muscled through the thighs; stifles moderately bent; hock joints are moderately bent and well let down.
