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Conformation critique of Skye!

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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.
 
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Her back legs are a bit posty, but they have held up and stayed sound for 18 years and will hopefully remain that way for the rest of her life.

Here's another picture of her before she went into training and became a beef cake:

 
#7 ·
Posty legged behind with small feet. Back is a bit long. Looking at the Stallion I do not think he is going to help her faults.
 
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First time I have ever heard her called long backed, or that she has small feet. She has excellent feet.

Here are the only conformation like pictures I have of any of her foals:



Same foal younger:
 
#12 ·
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!
 
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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.
 
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