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[RC] Still on Breeding - k s swigartKristiine Smuts said: Since learning more about good loins, I now too look at "long backs" differently, but I would still steer clear of TB type backs. This is just too funny to me. If you ask me, the one trait that you are likely to find consitent among TBs are good backs....because a poor back is the one thing that the race track won't forgive. You frequently hear of champion TBs with crooked legs (e.g. Seattle Slew), club feet (e.g. Secretariat), bench knees (e.g. Seabiscuit), and the conformation of thorougbreds can vary all over the map and you will see lots of different faults from the knees down, but they all have a good place to put the saddle (and all those "off the rack" saddles are made for the thoroughbred back....so, no "great saddle hunt" with a thoroughbred) and almost invariably that have a great connection between the front end and the back end. The ones that don't (I am not going to say that there are none, but they are the exception) are total washouts on the track, and consequently you are unlikely to see them bred on :). kat Orange County, Calif. ============================================================ This weekend, many of you are at rides...25's, 50's or 100's. You are the lucky ones. I know you did whatever you had to do to get to 'em. I know that each of you go to 'em with different so-called "goals" in mind...but I also know that each of you cares for your horse and realize that "carrying you" is the least of what he/she does for you. LIFTING YOU is the true effect. ~ Ryder ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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