This one's a bit fuzzy, but it does show you the amount of depth he has developed, half of it in the last week.
And what a super shape! 10/10 for style Left hand side not quite finished, but it will be soon.
I'm thinking of entering this one for the Turner Prize. Guess who?
Radar has been lying down most of the day. I think he's tired after yesterday! I am about to school Jazz and see if he is sound ridden, then do some entries for either him or Ace or both for Wednesday.
C
Hope Radar is OK. Just keep an eye on him. I'm not sure what his habits are, so you know better than I about what is normal.
ReplyDeleteNo expert on feet, but Ace's look...well, ace!
Wishing you a sound ride on Jazz. You are lucky to have a choice about whom to compete. I'll be interested to hear the results.
Oooops. Is that a Buttie stripe? *G*
ReplyDeleteIsn't it fabulous Jean? :-) I just love how strong and clear it is. A work of art.
ReplyDeleteC
Love the stripe!
ReplyDeleteHey, those feet look excellent! And everyone here says warmbloods don't develop concavity.
Warmbloods have issues digesting high sugar diets - and they are competition animals so people keep them on high sugar diets - I reckon that's why they don't develop concavity. A horse like Tetley will never have brillaint looking concavity though, because of his broad feet - he has to share the same height across at least another inch of width!
ReplyDeleteC
Oh yes, now those are looking good aren't they, nice and round, just need a bit more surface area at he heels now. Well done indeed.
ReplyDeleteButtie's tiger stripe eh? Nice pic.
Prix St George was interesting, honestly I've never seen such fat horses in my life competing, seriously 80% of them were clinically obese, is it any wonder they didn't move as lightly as they should with those great swinging bellies. I'm completely confused as to why they let them get this fat???? Any answers?
My horses aren't slimline as they should be, but when I event, I feel like I'm on one of the fattest horses, but today I'd have been on the slimest of the lot, easily.
Just imagine how sound they'd be without shoes????
yes his poor little atrophied frogs from where his shoes were on for 12 weeks are only recently properly ground-bearing. The heels will come, and they are still very lacking on the back, which have probably only just lost a negative coffin bone angle, to look at them.
ReplyDeleteOn the fat issue, I think they want them to look "big" and like the show horses, they achieve that "fill the eye" look literally by bulking them up. Did you spot all the bar shoes - even on the hinds???
C
tee hee, no didn't see bar shoes on hinds, but I saw the most wonky forelegs on most of them. Blimey if I was to school a horse to that level I'd want to start with a straight limbed horse!! I noticed a couple who were sound in the warm up arena, but noticeably lame in the show arena which was quite compacted sand. I wouldn't have bought any of them - literally nothing caught my eye and I bet they all think they're worth in excess of £20K.
ReplyDeleteThey made showing stock look slim in some cases, at least show horses gallop sometimes, these had big swinging bellies, looking like they were about to drop a foal. Yuk!
Quite an eye opening day!!
The problem is that straight limbed horses that are bred from horses that have already been to Grand Prix cost an arm and a leg. My friend paid £32,000 for hers as an uncompeted 5 year old.
ReplyDeleteAce is as close as they come though, just a teeny turn out of one leg from just below the knee. If shows less as he grows a foot to match it :-)
I can't remember thinking that the horses were obese at last year's nationals, though I did see maybe 1 in 6 horses in heart bars on the back feet. I wonder what it was about your PSG competitors. With apologies to Butterkist, I like fit horses, not fat ones!
C