Show me a horse with perfect conformation?

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Pics please?
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don't exist!
some can come close, but the "perfect conformation" is not there!!

Its a case of does the horse have good enough confo to minimise musculoskeletal issues when growing and working, and allowing it to do the job required as well as possible!

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Does it exist!? People also have preferences. Weridly we have a farm bred 3/4 shire who is very correct! The three from studs by two different premium stallions (Lime Trappeur and Willingham Axel) have soome very obvious faults! Unforuntaly the only pic of mag I have stood square is on an uneven surface....
 
Correct confo depends on the sphere the horse is expected to work. Good confo on a pulling horse would be terrible confo on a race horse. I would post a pic of my horse as she is perfect in every way but I'm at work and don't have any to hand
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errrh and what is wrong with that horses confirmation??!!
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Looks better than some I've seen on horsemart
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I like to think rupert has pretty good confo... asked for critique a few days ago and had little reply so he must be quite good
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As said, upright through his pasterns but i think that this is just a bad photo, i was taunting him with his feed to put those great lugs forward...
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errrh and what is wrong with that horses confirmation??!!
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erm... nothing is wrong with it... that's why i've shown it to the OP who asked for a photo of perfect confo... can you see something wrong?!?
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We had a pony who a judge said had near perfect confirmation for a hunter pony. He also said you could make him 17hh and he would still be pretty much spot on. Daughters comment was no thanks he was enough to deal with at 14.2
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No pics sorry, didnt have a digital camera in those days.
 
I saw an article once about a famous American racehorse that was said to have near-perfect confirmation.
I cannot remember it's name, which is annoying but it was male and chestnut
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Oh.... ummm yeah one of the famous racehorses who passed through monty roberts hands was supposed to be nigh on perfect.... can't remember which one and my copy of "horses in my life" is at home...

As for differing disciplines I have a fab little book called "Conformation for the Purpose" which at the beginning has a drawing of the prefect horse when reviews each dicipline showing "faults" that are acceptable or even desirable in each discipline.
 
Found this of Magnus the 3/4 shire. So ignore the fat and the dumped hind toes but he's pretty correct with no glaring faults. He's 20, he's be sick twice in his life, both absess' so accidental. The only fault that I know he has (that you can't see on the photo, showing the limitations of photos!) is he doesn't have an awful lot of space between his windpipe and point of shoulder which makes it quite difficult to fit a traditional breast collar to, difficult but doable. Oh I suppose his facial features are quite small but thats really neither here nor there really.
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Note very good "triangle" (way of looking at balence, imaginary triangle with sloped sides made by shoulder and hip bones)
 
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ermmm, not being funny here but thats my boy and you cant just post piccies of him all over the place i have the copyright for all piccies!!
 
I remember an article in horse and rider a couple of years ago that said there was a race horse that was said to have as perfect a conformation as was possible - i cannot for the life in me remember what the horse was called - i will have a look in my back catologue tonight and see if i can find it
 
I like welshies but I hate the fashion for standing them stupidly to impress idiot judges. Yes stand them up square and nicely but legs 3 miles hind and pushing their head up like it's in a bearing rein circa 1871 is just dumb. Same as arabs, yes show them off but I'd prefer not to see them fall over...
 
they do that to stand out. u dont want them to have their heads down and with their legs underneath them so they are crouched up tight. u want them presented to their best to catch the judges attention because u have to stand out. and its not hurting the horse either so i dont see a problem with it. they have to have a look at me factor about them especially stallions and the stallions normally have a high head carriage anyway so normaly its not the handler doing it it is the stallion.
 
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actually my YO said his confo wasn't bad considering he was 17 and has raced hard for 6 years od his life

ETA a more up to date photo so you don't all think i'm straving him
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QR: Think the racehorse you are all thinking of was Secretariat, sure there would be a Google image of him somewhere. Sorry, always guaranteed to have some useless trivia stowed in my brain somewhere!
 
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