Horse Judging: Terms for Oral Reasons, UNL

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• More ground covering in his stride while being a bolder mover that showed more drive and impulsion from behind while being freer in his shoulder. • Excelled the class in talent with his self-carriage and way of going. To expand, he was more lifted in the back, freer in the shoulder and hip allowing for more ground to be covered in fewer strides thus being more suitable to purpose. • Bolder mover, more purposeful stride • More impulsion allowing him to have more lift at the wither reaching out further with his shoulder dropping that down to a flatter knee • Lighter in his hoof to ground contact having more sweep and loft. • More pengilous motion with his hips • Freer flowing at the walk • Suspension • More elegant mover • Had more finish to his stride

• Ideal way of going • Flow in movement • Uses hip to drove more from behind and stay more collected • More rhythmical

• Engagement from hip • Even in length of stride • Better suited for the purpose • Overall shows more length of stride

Faults • He was ridden thrown away causing him to be heavy on the forehand and flat in the back • Lacks extension and drive from gaskin and hindquarter having no forward impulsion

• Limited range of notion in his shoulder • Was short, quick and upright in shoulder. • Propper and stilty at the trot. ***

Frame • He’s more suitable to purpose showing more overall length of stride combined with a more desirable frame that is leveler from poll to wither with his nose more correctly in front of the vertical • Was consistent in his frame even through his downward transitions.

• Moved out with a lower frame • More naturally relaxed at the poll • Longer, lower frame • Level from poll to wither • More correctly in front of the vertical • Consistent in his frame through downward transitions

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