Thursday, August 11, 2011

Critique please!(20.........)?

Nice looking horse. Overall well balanced and attractive, looks like a hunter type. He appears slightly built uphill (which is a GOOD thing). My first impression is that he is a bit long in the back but not too bad. He has a nicely sloped shoulder, clean straight legs, and his neck is set on well. Neck is a bit long but it matches his long back and I've rarely found a long neck to be a problem under saddle. The angles in his hindquarters are a bit "open" for my tastes, which would make it harder for him to really step underneath and engage his hindquarters like a dressage horse would need to do, but since he's intended for the hunters it shouldn't matter too much. He makes up for it with a powerfully muscled rump. He does have a bit of a roach back (his back rises up underneath the cantle of the saddle area) but this is not a conformation fault so much as a possible problem for fitting saddles. I like him a lot and I'd love to see a video of him moving.

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