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[RC] Conformation photos to look at - rides2farMaybe EN should have a conformation photo op like one of the other popular horse magazines has, three horses (they could all or some be well known or high mileage horses) and we could study their conformation and place in the order we think they best go Last night I was re-reading my Donna Snyder-Smith book, "Endurance Riding and Competition" (trying to find pointers for riding Gunner's trot!) and ran across the photos of types of horses that compete. I know some photos make horses look better than others, but I glanced at a photo and thought, "Why would they put that horse in there, I would never pick him"...then I read the caption: K.J. Destination . He won Best Condition in the Race of Champions two years in a row, finished Top Ten in the North American Championships and was on the Gold Medal Team at the World Championships 1996". Looking at that photo I would never had chosen him. Rio looks better in his photo, but still doesn't grab me. I prefer to see them in motion, but even when I had an ROC video it wasn't Rio or Diamond who caught my eye...it was the big flashy moving floating trots that weren't in top 10. Still I would love to see a column like this if people would just get good photos. If my family manages to video & photograph at Biltmore this year, that's one of my goals, to get the vet in trot outs of the 100 mile horses, and film the BC judging. Also, I'd like to take some good standing shots and start cataloging some of these good ones. I took photos of many of the 100 mile horses when I covered the ride in 1994. http://www.enduranceworld.net/events/2004Biltmore/gallery/vetIn/ There's Shahdon, that Val came in 2nd with and sold to the Arabs, the one that says "Val's Backup" was named "Ironman". The "Wave" is "Catch a Wave" (Pan Am winner), then there's Chagall (super horse), "Slicker's Runaway" is Kara Disbrow's "Viente Corona" . He's done very well on 50's and won a 100 last year so he's now proven, there's Kathy Brunjes horse "Ali Darkness" who I believe we sent to the WEC, BR Timmy is "Brown R Timothy" (a great horse lots of people don't seem to have noticed) Dinah Rojek's horse is "Phoenix", There's a good start for anyone who wants to look them over. Maybe John could start a photo gallery of conformation shots of good horses. Angie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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