Love the color.
Nice shoulder on her.
Neck may be set a tad high.
Good depth of girth and i like her front legs apart from her feet. She seems to sit back on her pasterns quite a bit.
Back is a little long.
The line from the point of croup to her croup is sort of sallow but otherwise she has nice hindquarters.
Back legs look alright, though she is cow-hocked.
I think she toes out slightly, in all four feet. Definitely posty in the rear. I'd like to see if she has passed that on to any of her babies. If so, I definitely wouldn't breed her again. Plus she's 18 and doesn't really need to be making babies.
by posty legged.. do mean Sickle hocked ? She is standing with her legs under her wrong , she needs backed up , then moved forward.
google sickle hocked it will show you pics etc
It means she's a bit straight in the rear. ie. Not much angulation. A nasty fault in horses and dogs. It is genetic. You can see the difference here, between a horse with a very straight rear and one with nice angulation.
Lizzie
going to disagree with some comments made.
1. this mare does not have a long back, if you divide her up in thirds she's almost perfect, if anything her hip is longer. back is perfect
2. she's not posty. her hock angle is very good and in one pic she's standing under herself but in the others if you drop a line from her rump to the ground, her hock and pasterns hit exactly as they are supposed.
This mare is put together very, very well. She needs a trim and in the first photo her pasterns look too sloped, but in others they are clearly fine. She is super refined, beautiful throatlatch, clean neck tie in, strongly muscled topline and hip, good bone and attractive head (for an appy)
I think she is def. breeding quality and she's certainly fit enough to have one more if you choose to do that. Love her!
Thanks! She tends to pass along her stink eye pretty consistently though.
I think she is a bit posty, at least in real life she looks it to me. Her back however is a perfectly fine, kind of on the short side actually, I can't use a western saddle with a skirt over 24 inches.
So many western pleasure horses are being bred to be sickle hocked. It gives a smoother ride, but I worry about how these horses are going to stand the test of time.
the pics of the foals did not show .
Who came up the term posty legged ? It is a sickle hock, and I dont think that the horse Sky is sickle hocked, think she standing wrong. She needs squared.
pretty babies. If you breed her, then pick a stallion that has a better hind end.
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