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Dec 31, 2006 23:18

Hey. I don't own a horse yet but I have ridden a bit, and I have loved them for years. I am a member of equestrian and I always like reading the conformation posts on there so I joined here too. I like to look up horses on DreamHorse and once in a while I'll do the "less than $750" search to see what poor nags come up. This guy is actually pretty close to ( Read more... )

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foalstory January 1 2007, 04:36:18 UTC

1. neck straight up - hard to tell if he's looking at something or just built REALLY funky!

2. butt high. Even with the hind end closer to the photographer, his butt is higher. but any youngster will grow in spurts, so hard to tell if that's temporary or a defect

3. front legs look eeriely small/thin??

4. hind legs are kinda 'parked' out behind him. Are his pasturns really that short and weird or is is just how he's standing.

this is one where seeing OTHER photos will add a lot. he's still cute in spite of it all :)

deathsvengeance January 1 2007, 07:39:28 UTC

Paso Finos are supposed to have a high set neck and sharp angled shoulder, its for their gate. Although, its difficult to tell if he's just holding his head high (looking at something as Foalstory says) or if he is really Ewe necked.

As far as his thin front legs are concerned, he's only 2...

Parked out in the hind end.. he's a paso, most gaited horses park out like that due to their build and how they are shown in hand.

His butt, actually looks level to his whithers if you look closely, its pretty much a straight line, but you did say he's young and growing still.

Honestly, I think he's cute.

chiquita522 January 1 2007, 15:46:44 UTC

He's very much a baby and not standing well for the camera. A good confro shot for selling is to have the legs closest to the camera square, and the off legs to be slightly in front of the square legs to give a good view of the.

But he is a nice, and I believe unusual for Pasos, color. Very rich.

shira January 1 2007, 23:46:23 UTC

He looks like a typical baby of a "baroque" breed - they DO look quite funny as youngsters. The rule we sometimes follow with Lipizzaners is that you judge them at 3 days, 3 months, and 3 years, and anything in between is not likely to be representative of what you're going to wind up with. He looks like a nice colt to me that's probably in a growth spurt. The things that I would watch for (or perhaps research, if pics of the parents and/or other siblings are availabe) is how the neck will fill out (as another commenter said, the angle is appropriate for the breed, but you DO want to see a little more topline as the horse grows), that the angle of his croup stays nice and angular, the way it appears in this pic, and of course that he grows to be either level or slightly taller at the wither than in the hip (which of course nobody's going to know until he's mature, but again, are pics of the sire/dam/siblings available ( ... )