check out the roman nose on this !

Looking at the rest of the conformation visible in such an awful picture, a severe roman nose is the least of its problems. And if that is Dutch Warmblood x Welsh then the Pope is my uncle. Its a standardbred through and through.
 
fatpiggy said:
Looking at the rest of the conformation visible in such an awful picture, a severe roman nose is the least of its problems. And if that is Dutch Warmblood x Welsh then the Pope is my uncle. Its a standardbred through and through.
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I agree this is no Dutch Warmblood x Welsh......but its nothing like a pure bred standardbred with a head on it like that. It might have a a touch of SB in it but not a lot! The bay in my profile pic is a standardbred :D
 
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Condition, a decent cavesson noseband instead of that flash (grrrr, hate flashes!) and a better camera angle would help, but she is far to immature to do any real work, probably needs a good year on decent grub.
 
laura7981 said:
I agree this is no Dutch Warmblood x Welsh......but its nothing like a pure bred standardbred with a head on it like that. It might have a a touch of SB in it but not a lot! The bay in my profile pic is a standardbred :D
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Ah but yours is a quality bred animal. This is a g***y trotter and from the opposite end of the scale to yours!
 
Bless her. She does look a sweetie. Is it just me or does that stallion further down (the Welsh x Cleveland bay) look a very odd shape too?
 
The left one certainly looks strange - it could just be the way he's standing but the whole leg looks at a very strange angle to the rest of his body.

He looks like two different horses stuck together! Front end and back don't belong together somehow.
 
Handsome is as handsome does and since when has the saddle gone on the head.

A late and much respected horseman said this to me many years ago after I had passed a rude comment about a young horse.

The appalling camera angle, plus the foot conformation makes the dragon driving poor creature look beyond redemption, but a season at grass, fed a decent diet, the attention of a good farrier and the horse would grow on and get stronger. It may have every chance of making a family horse. Trouble is as it it stands today it is likely to end up in the wrong hands again.

How about this one for a ugly, shocking forelimb cart horse.
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and six months later, fed, wormed and feet reshaped from shoe boxes to nice round feet. His head will always be a bucket - but the saddle won't be worrying it !
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I live in racing standardbred country so I've handled and seen hundreds and hundreds of them. When I looked at the ad for this horse I never believed it was anything other than an stb.
 
AA- I agree. Loads of horses go through a ropey patch at around 2-3. My own horse included. It's a really bad age to try and judge how they're going to turn out. I'm sure she'll grow into herself to a large extent bless her cottons :)

I have so many photos of Nitty in her three year old year looking blinking horrible you'd never believe she actually turned out nice!
 
I find myself really wanting her. Bless her she's lovely. I must stop looking in the mirror as she reminds me of someone !
 
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