Thursday, August 11, 2011
Opinions on this mare (20 characters)?
She's lovely. A pretty girl with nice conformation. Her trot in the beginning is unimpressive, but then again it appears the rider is making no effort to do much with it. You hunter/jumper riders so often treat the trot like "just something you have to do before you get to canter." Anyway, I suspect she has a bigger, more expressive trot in her if you ask. She has a nice balanced canter and she jumps nicely. Nice bascule and she really uses herself in an athletic manner. The only thing I would criticize is that she often lacks balance in her turns upon landing from a fence. Not sure if the rider is not properly preparing her for the turn, or she needs more balancing/suppling on the flat. But at one point she lands and makes an abrupt/unbalanced turn, and the rider asks for the lead change in the turn. But lacking proper balance and flexion, she changes leads in front only and doesn't change behind until several strides later. Probably horse and rider just need a little more mileage with each other. Rider is lovely too, by the way. Nobody is perfect after all!
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