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Re: [RC] [RC] PAC BC photos - Laurie Durgin

anyone know the height on these horses?


From: "Heidi Smith" <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jonni Jewell" <jonnij@xxxxxxxx>,"Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RC]   PAC BC photos
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:58:21 -0600


> Thanks John for the great photos showing the BC judging at the Pan
Ams.(and
> all the photos and reports) Very interesting to see the different
> conformation of the different horses. Especially between the 1st and 2nd
> horse. And I love the photo of TA Tango, with its tail up in the air. (my
> guess was it likes to flag it's tail, as they have it braided very pretty,
> which shows it off even better to the vets) One photo of course does not
> show us who "looked best", but you can see pretty much which ones would
> rather be back at the barn eating or resting.

Although the horses have "different conformation" you will still notice some
distinct similarities--short cannons, long forearms, good backs, reasonable
angles, no "extreme" necks, etc. So I'd submit that the conformation is
similar in all of them--but that some are of different styles.

Jonni is right that one can tell which ones would "rather be back at the
barn" in the photos, and also that it is tough to compare movement based on
photos that just catch one phase of the stride. That said, while Catch A
Wave (the BC winner) does not look particularly dynamic in the shots
provided, did any of you notice how much less gaunted up he was than the
others? I would suspect that this horse was metabolically superior to the
others, just looking at that, regardless of how dynamic he may or may not
have looked in the photo. I was also impressed with his overall bone and
substance--very "classical" sort of horse. These seem to be the ones that
can just keep going, and going, and going, like the Energizer bunny... I've
never seen the horse in person, but that was sure the impression I got from
the photo. The other horse that gave me the same sort of impression in the
pictures was the mare GA Tyfa Mynte in 9th or so place--another one I've not
seen in person, but she just has that business-like sort of appearance and
build that suggests that she'll still be out there tomorrow, and next week,
and next year.

Heidi


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