The brutally honest confo thread!

Faracat said:
It's a good bum. :D

Here's my grey from behind (from when she was a yearling) complete with 'happy tail'. Considering that she could stand like a cow hocked donkey when relaxed (most of the time), it was nice to see that she could stand straight if the mood took her.

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Lovely!
 
Right, first time posting photos so hopefully this works!
Would be interested in your thoughts on my boy, I got him totally on personality and had no idea about conformation (still don't).
Any advice on things to work on/look out for?
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Sorry, the second one was after a ride, when he is always a little more, um, relaxed.
 
js1006 said:
Right, first time posting photos so hopefully this works!
Would be interested in your thoughts on my boy, I got him totally on personality and had no idea about conformation (still don't).
Any advice on things to work on/look out for?
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Sorry, the second one was after a ride, when he is always a little more, um, relaxed.
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Very lovely looking horse that apart from being a bit thick through the gullet and short in the neck has very nice conformation from what I can see. I always find lower legs difficult to judge when they have feather. He has a lovely shoulder and looks strong in the back. He has a slight goose rump but not one that would bother me.
 
SpringArising said:
I'm on my phone and the picture is blurry but I'll tell you what I can see.

She's very weak looking all over. She's lacking muscle and topline. Her neck is upside down and ties low into the shoulder. She's camped under in front and looks calf kneed. Her back length is OK, she has a steep croup and is standing splayed behind in that particular picture. Her pasterns are hard to make out as when I zoom in the pic goes blurry, but the angle of her off-hind looks very odd. I do like her shoulder angle, though.
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Thanks for that! She is indeed very weak and undermuscled, she hasn't done much since she finished racing. She has already improved from when I got her, but I'm taking it pretty easy as she's still so young. Much walking around and plodding around our hills for the moment :) I think the angle of her off side is more the picture (I really suck apparently!), I'll see if I can stand her up properly at some point and take new ones. She's a lovely person and I'm looking forward to muscling her up!
 
Wagtail said:
Very lovely looking horse that apart from being a bit thick through the gullet and short in the neck has very nice conformation from what I can see. I always find lower legs difficult to judge when they have feather. He has a lovely shoulder and looks strong in the back. He has a slight goose rump but not one that would bother me.
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Thank you for your comments, he is in his winter woollies still so feathers everywhere. I haven't got any non-moving side on ones without feathers.
More plaits in next showtime then to lengthen his neck!
 
js1006 said:
Right, first time posting photos so hopefully this works!
Would be interested in your thoughts on my boy, I got him totally on personality and had no idea about conformation (still don't).
Any advice on things to work on/look out for?
Oreo1_zpsj6hee9ev.jpg

Oreo2_zpsnnycolsa.jpg

Sorry, the second one was after a ride, when he is always a little more, um, relaxed.
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What fascinating markings!
 
Interested to see what you all think of mine. Think I know of his main faults but interesting to see if others opinions are the same!

Here is Bow, an 11 year old TB x with god knows what!

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And the other side (and not looking forward because my OH was moving the trailer at the time...)
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And one just because he looks pretty and actually looks almost like a proper showhorse for once...
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I got to about Post 80 and gave up! There are just SOOO many horses on here! :) A lovely and cheering thread, for all that! :)

Two things occur to me; Firstly I'm surprised to see so many horses coming out of the winter looking so 'well'. OK, I'll be brutal …. FAT!! ….

The second point is, and I'm no photographer but whilst pics will come on one of two forms, either a quick 'phone snap or a set-up photo, when you have the opportunity, ALWAYS face the animal slightly up hill. As the bottom pic of the pony above ^^^^. I haven't a clue why horses (in particular) look decidedly odd when simply standing on the perfectly flat, or worse downhill, but they do. It's something to do with Phlugs Law, whatever that may be, probably a relative of Sod's Law!

One horse in particular springs to mind as looking all wrong was the TB which EKW posted, pages back. I cannot believe that the poor chap looks like that, I'm sure that the reality is that the photo hasn't done him any favours.

Otherwise, this is all good fun and I'll now go back to trawling my way through!

Alec.
 
Caol Ila said:
Gypsum, who got lost in the flood of horses I think!

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It's hard to judge Gypsum because in none of the pics he's standing square and in all of them the photo is taken from an angle.

He has a nice angle to his hocks and a very nice sloping shoulder.

In the first and third pics he looks a bit camped under in front, but I think that's accentuated by the way he's standing/the fact he looks like he's on a downward slope.

He has a nice hindquarter, his croup is a little steep maybe. He's a little thick through the gullet too.

Aside from that, I think he looks like a really tough, useful type.
 
Alec Swan said:
One horse in particular springs to mind as looking all wrong was the TB which EKW posted, pages back. I cannot believe that the poor chap looks like that, I'm sure that the reality is that the photo hasn't done him any favours.

Otherwise, this is all good fun and I'll now go back to trawling my way through!

Alec.
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Bernster said:
Now Alec that's just mean. I'm going to have to trawl back AGAIN to find that TB pic, as my curiosity has been peaked!
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Was it this one?

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Ah yes I'd just seen that and wondered if it was the grey. That's race hosses for you. But doesn't he looks so much better as a show pony!
 
This is my daughters little lead rein pony. Quite well bred and half sister to a HOYS winner but had a really rough start in life - her first owner in her passport is a certain notorious Mr Evans....

She is a cheeky little sweetheart though and as her main job in life is to be loved by a little girl her conformation (which I always think is a bit wonky!) is not important. But by all means give me your thoughts:

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I have lots of photos where my horse looks very downhill, but she isn't. Taking flattering photos of a horse is a real skill, and I don't have it!
 
Faracat said:
Look at the way the white goes over the back. Classic Tobiano. :)
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Totally agree! Not quite sure why someone would think otherwise? Probably another white spotting pattern too but as so many of them are unidentified I'm not going to claim specifics ;)
 

15.1 Mare use her mainly for showjumping and some eventing, apologies for the wonky neck but she just will not stand for confo pics!! She's a tb x welsh cob
 
Right, I think I have managed to take some photographs that show my mare in her correct proportions. Sorry about the head position and the trailing leg, I had to be quick before she moved towards me. But after realising the other photographs didn't look anything like what I saw with the naked eye, I thought I'd have another go.

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Casey76 said:
Sorry, but the new photos aren't making her legs look any better :o She looks really down on her fetlocks in the hinds now too :o
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I agree, her pasterns in front are too long. In addition to your comments she also is thick through the gullet and her feet are too small. The hind fetlocks are fine but I saw what you are referring to in the photo. You'll have to take my word for it that it's misrepresentative due to standing on the bedding rather than a flat surface and she has absolutely no problems with being down on her hind fetlocks. The reason I posted the photographs was not to contradict comments regarding her long pasterns but to illustrate that she is not built down hill nor is she long backed. I was trying to show how camera's distort proportions sometimes in response to what Alec Swan was commenting on regarding bad photographs.
 
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Wagtail said:
I agree, her pasterns in front are too long. In addition to your comments she also is thick through the gullet and her feet are too small. The hind fetlocks are fine but I saw what you are referring to in the photo. You'll have to take my word for it that it's misrepresentative due to standing on the bedding rather than a flat surface and she has absolutely no problems with being down on her hind fetlocks. The reason I posted the photographs was not to contradict comments regarding her long pasterns but to illustrate that she is not built down hill nor is she long backed. I was trying to show how camera's distort proportions sometimes in response to what Alec Swan was commenting on regarding bad photographs.
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Sorry about my typos: 'back' not 'backed' and 'cameras' not 'camera's'. Ugh.
 
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