Buying a Horse: Looking at Conformation

Conformation is perhaps the most important aspect to consider when you’re purchasing a horse. If a horse has bad conformation, he is usually going to have some sort of lameness issues or other physical conditions later on down the road that will inhibit its performance. However, there are those poorly conformed horses that do make [...]

Horse For Sale: 4 year old Palomino Gelding – SOLD

Peppys Golden Rio

Price: $2,000
AQHA# 4446270

Palomino

Gelding

Foaled: May 17, 2003

Location: Amarillo, Texas

Link to extended pedigree on All Breeds Pedigrees: http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/peppys+golden+rio
Rio is a 4 year old green broke gelding. He has Mr San Peppy on his papers and pedigree goes back to Doc Bar, Colonel Freckles, Leo and King. This horse has a lot of great foundation breeding [...]

Conformation Faults

When you purchase a new horse, you want to be sure that the horse has the conformation that is appropriate for its breed.  Each breed has special conformation characteritics that they are know for and should conform to.  A horse that has good conformation prevents you from having to deal with lamenesses and other structural [...]

Don’t Shop With Your Heart

One of the worst mistakes you can make when shopping for a horse is shopping with your heart. If you do this, you are sure to lead yourself into a lot of trouble. You are also sure to end up with a horse that you can do very little with. Remember, when [...]

Horses 101: The Complete Guide to Buying & Caring for Your Horse

The price of Horses 101: The Complete Guide to Buying & Caring For Your Horse has been lowered on Lulu.com for a limited time!  You can now purchase it for $28.78!  That’s almost $10 cheaper than if you purchase it through my website!  This means that you get a full-color, 120 page paperback book for [...]

Show Saddle For Sale

This is kind of an odd blog posting, but a friend of mine has a western show saddle for sale, so I figured I would post it on here just in case anybody is interested.
The saddle was custom made by the Allen Ranch Saddle Shop in Bixby, Oklahoma.  It has a 16 in seat and [...]

Conformation Faults: The Knife Neck

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 [...]

Conformation Faults: The Ewe Neck

On the other hand of things we have the horse with a ewe neck.  You wouldn’t want to pass this trait on either.  These horses just look uncomfortable and I would also think that they are probably hard to control as they probably don’t take the bit very well.  These horses have thin and upwardly [...]

Conformation Faults: The Bull Neck

After 5 years in college, majoring in Equine Business, you would have thought that somebody would have mentioned this odd conformation fault.  But nobody did and I ran across it doing some research for another book I was writing.  I also included it in Horses 101.  A horse with a bull neck has a very [...]

Horses 101 on Sale at Lulu.com!!

The price of Horses 101: The Complete Guide to Buying & Caring For Your Horse has been lowered on Lulu.com for a limited time!  You can now purchase it for $28.78!  That’s almost $10 cheaper than if you purchase it through my website!  This means that you get a full-color, 120 page paperback book for [...]