Re: RC: RE: dish faces

[Teddy Lancaster <teddy@runningbear.com>]

Believe it or not the "jugheads" of the racetracks (harness) can have beautiful
and "dished" faces...I've seen a few!!!

Teddy

"Snodgrass, Bonnie" wrote:

> Well I had a T.B. gelding that was a great-grandson of the great Stakes
> winner, Swaps. Swaps had a very dished face and passed this on to many
> generations of his decendents. M'Larkey was 16.2 hands, had 9" cannon bones,
> size 3-4 shoes and weighed on a scales 1350 lbs. This was one big and
> powerful horse. His dam (same very dished face) had the same good bone and
> feet.  Sooooooo?
>
> Bonnie Snodgrass
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dot Wiggins [mailto:dotwgns@ruralnetwork.net]
> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 12:18 AM
> To: ride camp
> Subject: RC: dish faces
>
> I don't know if it applys to Arabs or not,   but other breeds, when they
> have the super delicate heads,  teacup muzzles, etc., often  have the same
> kind of super refined bone structure all over.  Shows up as legs with no
> substance and the tiny feet.  Bones are pretty much the same all over,
> can't have strength one place and delicate elsewhere.
>
> I don't mean nice "clean" heads, etc.,  just the excessively fragile type.
> Not sure where the "dish face" fits here.
>
> Glad to hear others take on this.
>
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