Now don't get me wrong

    I love my baby horse Rhyme, but he is hard to ride. He is a warmblood after all, but he has the best and worst things about his breeding.
Now I have had Welsh cobs or ponies my whole life, they come with their own set of quirks. For example they have a neck that can periscope, because their neck and heads are set up on the top of their shoulders they have a talent of when they get excited or hear something strange to pull their heads up as HIGH AS POSSIBLE.

    I have been hit in the mouth more than once by somebody doing this. Since both WB and cobs are carrige based horses they have a amazing talent of collecting, 

The majority of the time that I ride Super Kid and Rhyme achieving that long and low status, or our happy place. 

Its a interesting topic, thoughts? I usually warm up, some collected work, decompress with stretchy work then switch back then end long and low. No matter if I'm doing jumping,dressage,conditioning or whatever I always warm up like this. Super Kid is best at getting right to the stretchy work, whereas Rhyme you have to convince that it is a good idea and he will feel better after. He is slowly getting better at this, he just naturally compresses VARY well and its hard to stretch out 

Conformation Hit: Hunter\Jumpers

I know a few  H\J, where I live in Indiana h\j are not around, unless you go further toward Indianapolis (unless its my buddies over at Red Pegasus Ranch)  

I picked QH this time, now here's my disclaimer, I know there are good and bad sires in EVER breed. I am looking at the sire and offspring and giving my general opinion about what I think about the horse)   

First stallion: Indian Artbeat- 17.2h black english only 

What I see: I see that for a QH he is built decently. However I do see that he is over at the knee, by a lot. I'm not entirely sure whats going on with his back feet, they are vary upright with awkward angles. I don't mind his HQ, they are okay but his hocks are places behind by a bit.Over all he will have problems but he can jump

 Second: Iron Age AQHA stallion 16.2?

What I see: He has a decent front end and is kinda uphill, but his back end is not good, although that might be how they set him up. The angles are vary acute. 

Foal from Google Images. I have a huge idea that the picture was taken on the side of a hill. So given that the legs are all vary squared up under them. It does have a nice head though. 

Next one will be done sometime in the next week. Comment what your opinions are of these horses, if you agree or disagree.