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Re: [RC] Still on breeeding ............ - heidiSince learning more about good loins, I now too look at "long backs" differently, but I would still steer clear of TB type backs. As an aside, over the weekend I was watching the Rider's Tour (jumping) on telly and the most striking feature on every horse was the long back - you could place an entire saddle and rider behind the saddle!! You can find poor backs in any breed, but I would submit that one can find more good backs proportionately in TBs than in just about any other breed. I see the long backs in the rejects--but if one goes to the big barns in places like Lexington and looks at body proportions, one rarely finds a poor one. I see more good bodies in the upper-eschelon TBs than anywhere else--biomechanically less effective conformation does NOT get one over the finish line first! I also rarely see long cannons in good TBs, nor a whole host of other stuff. Where TBs fail in general as a breed for our sport is shallow, shelly feet, temperament, and lack of long-distance physiology. FWIW, the Arab folks trying to breed race horses should take a serious look at the proportions of quality TBs--instead of just trying to jack Arabians up to be 16 hands. Heidi ============================================================ REAL endurance is your water freezing IN the cantle bags! ~ Heidi Sowards ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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