Okay, since I’m on this neck comformation kick and Wikipedia has great photos of these, you have to look at this horse. Now, he just has a skinny neck. If this horse wasn’t looking at the camera you could really see the neck gets very thin at the throatlatch. I would think that these horses have balance problems as well. They are more of the extreme to the bull necked horse. He also look as if he has bad conformation in his hindquarters. His hocks are kind of a weak looking as well.
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December 7, 2008 at 7:01 am
i thought it might be worth mentioning that since you dont know this horse, didnt take this picture, and know nothing about it that its probably not a great choice when using for an example.
this horse appears to be a younger horse, easily under 2 yrs… which would be why certain parts are yet to be developed. his “bad conformation” is primarily the way he is standing in the photo. if the person that took the photo was going for a conformation photo they probably would have squared the horse up and made them face forward before taking the shot…
to me this just looks like a picture of a young horse… in an awkward growth spurt… that was taken by a loving owner to have something to remember this stage in the horses life.
June 16, 2009 at 6:20 pm
I own a 2 year old gelding that looks just like this. He just turned 3 on April. 26/2009. Just because they look like this in their growth sprit doesn’t mean they’ll look like that in a few years. My horse has a long, thin neck too. Once I started lunging him a couple times a week it got thicker and wasn’t so thin. Maybe a horse has “bad” conformation on the ground but is the most beautiful in the hunter ring
September 13, 2009 at 5:29 pm
we value a horse with a long, thin, neck, correctly set on the shoulders, having a slim throatlatch and a babydoll head…………