Conformation critique please

[Abbeygale]

Please can you clever souls that frequent here offer some advice and opinions on the conformation of this mare.

15.1hh welsh D x AA, 14 yrs.

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[el_Snowflakes]

Im no expert but she looks a little bum high and quite under muscled over her back end? Yu wouldnt have to be an expert to see she is very gorgeous tho! Love a chestnut girl

 

[TuscanBunnyGirl]

could do with maybe a little more muscle on her neck and backend?

Apart from that she looks cracking!

 

[dreamcometrue]

Looks a little sickle-hocked to me.

 

[tallyho!]

Looks croup high, .right hind looks a bit odd. Long in the back to my eye, flat footed in front, but good shoulder and neck. Very dull coat, would consider a change in diet.

 

[Abbeygale]

Thanks for your replies

Quite agree re muscling. She's been in and out of work over the last couple of years - but hopefully this will start to build up again soon

Dreamcometrue - I havent heard that before about her, but I can see what you mean in the 1st couple of pics.

Tallyhohoho - she's never been a real shiner IYKWIM - she's on ad lib hay over night, out at grass by day (grass coverage still there, quite lush grass but on clay so beginning to be a bit water logged). She has half round stubs scoop of Alfa a and handful of pony nuts, with a half scoop of a mix of speedi beet and copra meal. I think she's actually looking more shiny now than she was in those pics - but any suggestions for feed? She's a good doer so I'm always careful not to be feeding her anything to calorific.

Right hind - odd how?
Long in the back - very!!

She is a right old mish mash to my mind - but she's also a little star that has turned out to be brill at everything you ask her to do!

 

[Bikerchickone]

I've found Feedmark Benevit to be brill for putting a shine on a horse's coat and not expensive to do it either. I think she looks nice, but lacking in muscle and maybe carrying her tummy a little low, what I mean by that is that because she's been in and out of work the muscles used to hold her in shape have relaxed. My cob was the same after 6 months off. It'll come back with regular work.