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I just read what I posted but want to make a correction.  Beau tracks up quite a bit (hind hooves plant forward of where his front feet tracks) but he just doesn't "round" well!  He travels rather flat - which makes him an incredibly smooth ride - but prone to a little more breakdown than a horse with good "suspension."    You have some trade-offs here for a not-perfect horse.  My "perfect comformation" horse is emotionally not really fit for endurance (yet-still working on him) so that's my trade-off for that non-perfect horse!

 

K.

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Kathy Mayeda <klmayeda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I agree with you Kat on both points.  I wasn't too alarmed about steepness of shoulder in the photo because it may look a lot different without her head being way up.   Beau has a real laid back shoulder, he doesn't come well naturally underneath himself, but I think it really contributes to his incredible ground eating smooth trot. 

 

Drako has a laid back shoulder too, but he has a more sloped hip angle and a shorter back which makes him move with a lot of suspension.  Scares the cxxx out of me because I feel the power underneath me, but I know that he's definitely more correct.  He moves like a mini-warmbood.

 

K.

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:02 AM, k s swigart <katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Personally, I wouldn't describe this horse as being particularly steep
in the shoulder (some people may be making the mistake of judging her
shoulder angle from the pictures where the horse is standing under with
her front feet, quite a lot of the photos are like this).  In fact, I
quite like the shoulder angle and am of the opinion that a goodly number
of Arabian horses are too laid back in the shoulder, which makes it very
difficult to get them to raise their shoulder and come up underneath
themsleves.

However, I would be very concerned about the mismatched hoof angles of
the front feet.  I know there are plenty of horses that do okay with
this condition and that it can be successfully managed; however, I
wouldn't go out of my way to buy a horse like that.

kat
Orange County, Calif.




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