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[__eloquence__]

Hey guys I just wanted to post some photos of my pony for a confo critique.

Not the best conf photos but do what you can with them. He refuses to ever stand less than 3 inches away from me haha. Thanks!

Comments

[deathsvengeance]

most everything looks good but he's over at the knee

[holdtheoldbay]

He's a cutie... Its really been a while since I've put my critique eye to work but what jumps out at me is he's camped under up front and has long pasterns. His hocks are straight, and a tad bit camped under behind too. It also looks like he might have a tiny bit of a ewe neck, but I think thats just lack of muscle development, if you do a lot of long and low work with him and ride him in draw reins occasionally ( only after lots of long and low work) that could fix that . What do you do with him? And how old is he, what is he?

[z111]

None of those are great conformation shots because he's never squared up. But I can try to give it a go with the caveat that a horse that isn't squared up can look different from how he really is. (The first pic also has shadows that make it nearly worthless for confo analysis.)

He has a nice long slooping croup. I agree with the other posters that he looks a bit back at the knee, and camped out. His pasterns are long and look kind of weak. I bet he's a smooth ride, but I'd be hesitant to jump him since those pasterns look like they could go lame easily.

He is slightly sickle-hocked, but his hocks still look nice and strong. He's got a nice, short back. It's not a conformation issue, but in some of those photos, his front toes look really long (like in the last two photos.)

His neck ties in well to his body and I also like his head shape with his wide-set eyes.

I think this horse may have a hard time learning to get up under himself.

What do you do with him?