You won’t know until you try. Or get a good hunter trainer to look at her. Or get multiple opinions, if you want to see if this is a horse that will fit in an A-circuit barn or if could do well in non-rated divisions or local circuit. A lot of WBs get passed over too because they won’t make the cut as a hunter.
Hunters can be frustrating because they have such as a specific type of movement/jump/way of going (like, good movement for dressage is not necessarily going to win in the hunters, regardless of horse size or breed). Have had TB, appendix, WBs, appy pony/hony (for the pre-CH, not ponies, so we never measured)… as hunters. Not all at Indoors-level, but good enough for local circuit. If they’re competitive, people won’t care what breed or color they are (or if it’s a mare – I know one trainer who hates mares and currently has like 10 in his barn because they’re really nice horses). The main thing is whether or not they go like a hunter.
Sometimes it’s enough to find 8 jumps, sometimes you gotta have one that out-jumps the rest of the class in addition to getting all the distances and leads. Sometimes the judging is biased. And sometimes it’s because the horse doesn’t really quite get its knees up enough, even if it can jump GP, or has a touch too much hock action, etc. I feel those are the finer, sticky details someone knowledgeable and immersed in hunterland can tell you if you have it or not.
EXACTLY. That was my point, but much more concise.
