Conformation like a whippet..!

[FlyingCircus]

Has anyone had experience of a horse with huge neck and shoulders, no belly (looks almost tucked up but isn't) and a weak hind end? Did they balance out with work?

 

[ihatework]

I had one with a tendency to that type of frame. Definitely improved as matured and with work, but took quite a lot of effort and you fundamentally cannot change their basic confo, just optimise what you have

 

[FlyingCircus]

I had one with a tendency to that type of frame. Definitely improved as matured and with work, but took quite a lot of effort and you fundamentally cannot change their basic confo, just optimise what you have

Interesting to know! Thankyou.

I've never come across one quite like this gelding. Looks almost stallion-like but was gelded as a yearling.

 

[Spotherisk]

Interesting to know! Thankyou.

I've never come across one quite like this gelding. Looks almost stallion-like but was gelded as a yearling.

Is it a driving horse rather than ridden?

 

[FlyingCircus]

Is it a driving horse rather than ridden?

Nope, he's a New Forest pony.

 

[Caol Ila]

Has anyone had experience of a horse with huge neck and shoulders, no belly (looks almost tucked up but isn't) and a weak hind end? Did they balance out with work?

Yes. My Shire-TBx mare. Definitely improved with work. She did dressage up to US Second Level (sorta Medium-ish in UK money) but not that well because collection wasn't really going to be a thing with her conformation. She was very capable at First level (sorta Novice/Elementary-ish...). She was excellent at jumping. Would have been better if I was brave. I think the work I did glued that horse together until she was 27, because she wasn't exactly a conformational wonder.

What she did have going for her, however, was that the angles of her hindlegs were rather good, despite loose coupling and being conformationally weak through the SI joint.

 

[Lucky Snowball]

I have one, he is also long so quite challenging. Took several years but he did improve his top line and strength with work.

 

[J&S]

NF pony stallion Perveril Peter Piper has rather that look, I always thought all the Perveril stallions had the very big chests, not necesesarily small quarters though. How is your pony bred?

 

[Melody Grey]

Has anyone had experience of a horse with huge neck and shoulders, no belly (looks almost tucked up but isn't) and a weak hind end? Did they balance out with work?

Yes, but in TBs- hasn’t ended well. Is the horse sound behind? Just wondering if it’s the result of some bizarre compensation? Admittedly, it would be more likely seen in uneven diagonal pairs than front to back though I’d have thought?

 

[FlyingCircus]

NF pony stallion Perveril Peter Piper has rather that look, I always thought all the Perveril stallions had the very big chests, not necesesarily small quarters though. How is your pony bred?

He's by Lucky Lane Rollo, who also seems to be similarly built from pictures I've seen.

Off to go look at the Perveril stallions!

 

[FlyingCircus]

Yes, but in TBs- hasn’t ended well. Is the horse sound behind? Just wondering if it’s the result of some bizarre compensation? Admittedly, it would be more likely seen in uneven diagonal pairs than front to back though I’d have thought?

Looks sound to me, and I'd like to consider myself abit of an expert after staring at my other 2 and their varying ailments for the last 10 years

He's not under saddle with me yet though. Hoping to have first sit this weekend so we'll see I guess!

 

[Snow Falcon]

Here's mine by Rollo

 

[Sprogladite01]

My connie was like this, and we put all the work into getting him more "correctly" muscled - which then showed he was bilaterally lame behind and he had chronic PSD in both hinds. He never came sound unfortunately, despite our best efforts and I lost him last year to kidney failure. Even without the kidney failure he would have been PTS as he wasn't even field sound