Form and function and a lot more…
Jun 12 2007
Wow. I have to say, this is the worst shoulder I’ve seen so far. This is, thankfully, a gelding who someone was smart enough to ensure couldn’t reproduce. Check out that shoulder. It is almost straight up and down. This horse must ride like you are sitting on a jackhammer. At least this one is out of the gene pool, and we can only hope he was an “oops” baby from a one-time breeding of his parents.
Here is a sweet old mare advertised for sale. The only problem is that the ad brags that she has had a few foals. Dear Lord, why? Because she is gray? This mare has short stubby legs and tiny feet which don’t look even marginally capable of holding up her bulk. She has big old head and appears to be cowhocked. Folks, just because a horse has a nice disposition, that doesn’t mean you should breed it.
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oh, come now. The grey mare is probably mostly just a victim of really bad photography. Any horse looks stubby-legged when photographed from above
I would agree – lord knows how many times I’ve seen photos of good horses looking like they have toothpicks for legs and hiant donkey heads.
This is definitely a case of camera and photographer induced weirdness in the image. This mare was shot with a wide WIDE angle lens, with her head close to the camera. This makes everything further from the lens look tiny by comparison.
This is why you should use a longer focal length (70mm and longer) to take conformation shots of horses.
the gray mare looks like a wiener dog