If these were cars, the wheels would fall off
Jul 01 2007
Today I’m going to talk about a personal pet peeve conformational defect known as “back at the knee.” If you’ve ever bent your knees to lift something heavy, you know that your legs are stronger when the knee is bent slightly in the proper direction. What if the knee were built so that even at rest, it was actually behind the position of the lower leg? It is easy to imagine what an ineffective leg that creates. In horses, it creates a weak leg that is at high risk of tendon injury, a horse who is not built to stay sound and won’t. I knew I could count on the Internet to turn up numerous examples. Just to horrify everyone further, I limited my choices to stallions standing at stud.
The foreleg here is a classic example. If you drew a straight line upwards from the front of the pastern, the knee isn’t going to meet it. It isn’t even going to come close enough to wave hello. (And while we’re talking about this stallion, where is his neck?)
Ha ha, nice try on the selective photography! In this picture – the only one posted of this allegedly palomino (sure looks sorrel to me) stallion – the feet are lopped off but, sadly, the knees are still in the picture and boy is he ever back at the knee. Look at the front left. Textbook example.
OK, you guys are kidding about this one, right?
April Fools was three months ago. Take down the pictures of your yak.
DAMN, that wouldn’t even make a decent gelding. In fact, I may have to make a banner for this site featuring this horse. He is the poster child!
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Something tells me that mommy didn’t buy you a pony or that Santa didn’t bring you one this year.
something tells me devidevil doesn’t have the conformation knowledge to appreciate how dead on FUGLYHORSE is. or maybe Devdevil was born “back at the funny bone”
keep it up Snarkosaurus!
Something tells me that lori needs to stop assuming that devidevil doesn’t know what she’s talking about.
I don’t see all that much wrong with the second pic, it just looks like an awkward photo of a young horse, how old is he?
Also, the third horse doesn’t look sorrel or palomino, he looks plain chestnut to me.
Cadence,
Genetically, sorrel and chestnut are exactly the same. So while that horse doesn’t look palomino, it does look sorrel. Or chestnut, take your pick.
Wow. Love the NH halter on him too. Not that my guys are any gift to the conformation gods–but neither of them will be breeding.
The alleged palomino actually does look like a sooty/smutty palomino or maybe a chocolate palomino.
Look close at his tail and the dark blochyness of his legs shoulder and haunches. Just wanted to point that out.
Also, Although his front legs arent too grea,t he has a pretty face and decent body from what we can tell in a crappy camera angle. I love his upper front end from what I can see.