Your opinions please...

[Stoxx]

... on this little colt by Pro Set.

Thanks!

 

[Fairynuff]

I dont know, I dont like his forelegs, theyre tacked on too far forwards! His back looks a bit long and flat-could be the photo though. Sorry, hes not for me

.M.

 

[alleycat]

I rather like him; I think he's going to be good. Sorry thats a bit vague; he just looks well-grown & well-proportioned subject to the fact he's growing in installments.

I find foals really difficult to judge after the first few days; its so hard to say what's going to change and what's not.

 

[Stoxx]

Thanks, for both opinions, I don't have an awful lot of knowledge when it comes to foals which is why I'd like as many people's views as possible!!

 

[Tempi]

Really dont like his forelegs, they are very very straight and his pasterns are really upright.

 

[Charlie77]

I like him he has a lovely neck & head.

 

[Stoxx]

Thanks Tempi and Charlie77.
I also thought he looked a bit upright, however I think this about a lot of foals that I see!!

 

[MillionDollar]

He has got a lovely head, but there's something I'm not keen on

I think its his forelegs.

Are you looking for a dressage foal to buy?

 

[burtie]

Well I think he looks quite nice, but foals are so difficlut to judge. I would want to see him from the front and back and see the sire and dam. I would also want to see him move. Also exactly how old is he in those photos?

 

[Stoxx]

_Claire_, yes I would like something for dressage, however I'm not necessarily bothered about something that's huge and flashy, just something that is nicely put together and can do the job!
Burtie, he was 4 months in those photo's and is now 5 months. I think that it's hard to tell just from a photo too and as you say, it's important to see them move.

 

[Tia]

I like him Ifield. He looks just as gangly as any other 4 month old foal and I think you will be very pleasantly surprised at how he will look a year from now. Seen it so many times before; he will have his day when he starts to turn into a swan.

 

[Stoxx]

Thanks for your opinion Tia

 

[alleycat]

Looking back at the photos, yes he does look as if he has steep pasterns in the first 2 pictures; but in the 3rd picture he looks right to me, at present, and I think this is the only piccy by which you can safely judge.

The first picture shows him turned slightly to the camera; if you think about it, a horse head-on to the camera has its pasterns absolutely in line with the cannon bone; so I think that's effectively what is happening here.

The second picture shows him on a hill. Incidentally, look how much catching up his front end has to do. I panned up & down the screen; to line him up with the frame of the VDU; on the hill his back is almost level; but look at the difference between his front & back legs. Its not really fair to judge his front end at this stage. Also, I think standing uphill like this steepens the shoulders in pictures as the horse leans forward, and I think the pastern also appear to be steep for just this reason. Personally I found it very difficult to look at the horse in this piccy- my eye was irresistably drawn to that HUMUNGOUS SHEEP.

I wish all my foals had looked as nice as this; (the foal, not the sheep). I've had some go through stages where I was actually ashamed of them; one in particular, an Anglo Arab who grew into the most truly made, well balanced and attractive adult, spent 5 years- yes, 5 YEARS- looking as if she had been created in a laboratory out of spare parts, before maturing at 6, when I'd given up all hope....

 

[Stoxx]

Thanks alleycat, I know that the first couple of pic's aren't the best of angles, but that is what I was given!
I am going to see him today and I expect to see a huge change to be honest! I am going to take more pic's etc and watch his movement closely, so I'll go from there!!