this is a girl we picked up from an Auction for 450$. Definitely a diamond in the rough! she's 3 years old. and has had 30 days proffessional training. she's registered. can't remember her registered name and the papers arn't nearby. she's excellent for begginners. very calm and easy going and does exactly what she is asked. i was just wondering how her conformation was. and i know the halter is low on her nose. but we got her out only for the pictures and put her back up. my sister put the halter on and she's only 10. so she is still learning. plus she couldn't reach that high. and the last are of my sis and Adelaide, once again with the low halter lol but she's learning.
I'm sure someone else will come in here and pick her apart but while she doesn't seem to be put together with great confirmation, I am very impressed with your description. Three years old with only 30 day training and she is that calm and relaxed and understands the questions asked by beginners? Wow. I am totally blown away. My seven year old isn't that trust worthy, haha.
I don't think she should be bred but to be a good horse to hack around and have fun with, personality is way more important than conformation flaws.
oh noooo lol Sparta is baby enough. and while i love her personality, and her color! i know she isn't breeding quality lol her personality is great, but she does have her quirks. and i honestly trust her enough to put someone on her thats never touched a horse. or even a small kid. and my little 10 year old sister rides her with no problems. and at this age she is already practically bomb broof. we rode in the parade the other day with all the flags and clogging and drums and sirens. and while all the other horses spooked she gladly lead the way.
She doesn't seem that bad to me. She is pretty narrow in the front, she looks like she is connected kinds weird on her back hips. Um... I really like her head. She has the butt bump my QH horse has. I hate that but its not so bad on her. I really don't think she is that back looking, but that could just be me. I'm no expert.
Well, first off she is lacking alot of muscle. Because of this she's ewe neck and quite sallow along her topline & hindquarters. Her legs also appear quite long.
The bottom of her jaw appears to stick out more than usual (the bridge between the cheek & chin)...
Overall i think that with a little more weight & muscle she should look very nice. Good job in finding her!
The bottom of her jaw appears to stick out more than usual (the bridge between the cheek & chin)...
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At that age teeth are coming in and the jaw protruding is normal. Sometimes the teeth can get impacted and make it worse so it is a good idea to keep an eye on it and have regular dental care
definitely prolly a hay belly or something. we've had her sense april. and she's always had the tummy so i assume she isn't pregnant. she BETTER not be pregnant.
She looks a little camped under and slightly cow hocked. I'm not sure about the cow hocked because the whiteness of her makes it hard to see! So on the plus side she sure is clean! I'm no expert, but I'm trying to learn as much as I can about conformation! She sure is a looker, though!
Ok, I have to disagree with several posters before me. This filly is not cowhocked or camped under. In fact, her legs are her best feature. Her front legs are very straight and neither too narrow not too wide. Pasterns are normal, if the tiniest bit long. Angle is good, hooves look good. She is pretty downhill, but she is still growing so might be croup high right now.
The big thing that makes her not breeding level and will affect her a bit (no Grand Prix dressage, ok?) is that her neck is really short compared to her body length, is set on low and is way under muscled. The muscling can be changed, the small/short neck cannot. Trim up her mane and it will help make her neck look longer, give her a hunter look.
I think you totally lucked out. It couldn't possibly be that her calmness is due to malnutrition? But, no, since you've had a her awhile.
she really isn't all that skinny, at least not in my opinion. since she's rode al the time i assume she's that "healthy" weight. but for muscling. how do you put the muscle on the topline and neck? and she wasn't malnutritioned when i bought her. actually i have pictures FROM the auction when she was there. and the day i brought her home. first 4 are from the auction. the 5th is the day after we got her home.
oops forgot the last one. i also noticed her legs were VERY straight compared to all of our other horses. and she has tons of muscling in her rear end. compared to her front. she likes to kick holes in the stall wall unfortuantly. thats one of the ways she drives me crazy lol
and as for the the dressage. lol she is NOT cut out for dressage. she is a tad bit on the clumsy side and lacks finesse. she is definitely more of a WP horse. she holds her head low and level, has the slower gaits. honestly it's like she over exxagerates by making them so slow or something. she definitely has speed back in that motor. just rarely uses. plus she COLLECTS alot and thats what i love most about her. she'll collect up her hind end and make her gaits nice and smooth. and for only being broke a little under a year since she's almost 4 and they started training at 3, i think she's awesome so far!
Has she had a vet check? To be so so so young and so mellow and exaggeratedly slow just sends up red flags in my head - especially considering where she came from. I hope she's just naturally a wonderful, sweet girl but wow... 30 days of training and she's a bombproof beginner's horse with insanely slow gaits?
In the first few pictures it looks like her hooves pancake out...not sure if they are just like that or they need a trim..might be the angle. Her pasterns look a wee bit long
Also she is a lot of muscle.Mine is lacking. She will build it up hopefully as you ride her...I like her markings :P
yeah i've had her since April. she was my sisters birthday present. the vet has been out and gave all the horses and clean bill of health. and yeah her feet were a little pancaked when we got her. as she had never had shoes or anything. so our farrier came out and straightened them up, now she's prefect barefoot as well. i honestly thought something was wrong with her when we were riding one day. my sister was riding in a simple D ring snaffle and Adelaide started foaming a bit in the mouth and drooling. but i believe a question was asked here and thats a good thing with a bit in the mouth. i do believe i have found out why she was sold so cheap... it's because she's got so much white and she's a danged pig! she will find the dirtiest hole in the pasture and just wallow in it or she will poop in her food. and hay and then lay in it and make a bed. and she is THE hardest horse to keep clean, and right now our pasture is a mud hole from all the rain and melted snow so she has been just a Bay lately instead of a paint.
Great looking horse! It looks like she either has a hay belly or needs deworming though. She also needs some more muscle, but my boys do too. Gorgeous girl!
I do see what the others are talking about when they say she looked better before, however, what I see is either a worm issue or a hay belly issue. She still has her top line, kinda, but she is not in sport horse shape by any means. I would love to have that great personality on my mare. You found a great girl. She doesn't look too dirty either.
The other day, someone, I can't remember who, mentioned in a post that if the protien content of the hay being fed is too low then there's no way the horses are going to look "good", no matter how much they are being fed. And I feel like I remember lilkitty saying that her horses do get fed quite a bit (maybe wrong poster though, I don't remember for sure) in another thread so perhaps protien levels are the issue? I know I had that issue last year. Lacey was getting fed like 30# of hay a day but she was still skinny as a stick. As it turned out, she just needed more protien!
Just a thought...
I do agree that this mare looked better, imo, in the pictures right after she was bought...
she was a pasture puff before we got her. now with regular riding she has slimmed up a bit. all of my horses are at a healthy weight with no ribs showing. but the other 2 that are kept at the place we keep our horses are stick thin. if you guys would like proof, i'd gladly give it to you.
hmm well she get 4 Quarts a day, plus 1 quart of Alfalfa Pellets mixed in. she is on a regular worming schedule. but i believe my mom said jsut for safe measures we were gonna get them all tube wormed, as for hay we have been lacking lately as there isn't much around here. but what we get is usually just regular fescue hay but we have found some Oat hay we were using but we stopped as we noticed some problems with it and when we stopped using it those problems went away. is Oat hay any good ?
4 Qts of 10% sweet feed Pellets. crappy i know but thats what my parents buy. one top of Vitamins and minerals powder plus the Alfalfa, usually Fescue is all you can buy around here besides square bales of Bermuda/Orchard grass/Alfalfa for 9.00+ a bale. i definitely agree about the protein. mom is gonna go out and buy some Empower and such to feed them as well on top of the rest.
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