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Well, all I know is that I have a TON of friends who show quarter horses at high levels (Congress, World Show, etc.) from my childhood days. None of their western pleasure or HUS horses have halter blood. None of the halter horses have any performance lines. The western or HUS ones sometimes do performance halter but it is VERY rare to find a horse that will be successful at AQHA shows in regular halter and also performance classes. It is a TOTALLY different look of horse, at least to me. So yes, the description of her as a halter-looking beefy type would make me cross her off my list as a long term performance prospect. Of course that could be wrong, just going by your description.
My advice – and you should ignore if this isn’t what you want in a horse or if the pros you work with say the baby is actually more of a performance type – don’t look at stallion pics to determine what the proper type is for a WP prospect. Watch the 2 year old WP classes. At that point, even horses that get a bit bigger as stallions (common bc testosterone, etc.) were not at all halter-like. If it is beefy as a baby I expect too much beef as an adult horse to maintain the performance look. For example, watch VS Flatline’s video. His current pictures are WAY beefier now than he was as a 2 and 3 year old when he was still quite svelte. His “bulk” is not the kind that halter horses have, even now – the hind end is all different and wrong for halter. I would look for an elegant baby, not a halter baby.
better yet, look at VS Code Red’s video. He’s still not beefy at all and has the type I’d look for in a pleasure prospect myself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m_Ha8_LP58
Again, all personal preference, if you like the beefier horses that’s OK. I just don’t care for them myself.
FWIW, I have had several WP-bred horses who were great performers. My Zippo Pine Bar pony won a lot in the 3’6 jumper divisions at USEF shows. I really like quarter horses but the performance ones.[/QUOTE]
I do like the older style QHs better, the more bulldog types. Actually, that is what I generally go for in all horses. But I do want to a horse that I can do relatively well on, or at least feel competitive on. I have been wanting a AQHA show quality horse for a long time.
This is the best picture I have of her right now: https://goo.gl/photos/zi5K4DU5Qiidu7EQ9. The dam goes back to The Big Investment top and bottom. She is by Prinzziple.
I love VS Flatline, by the way. Barn is expecting two foals by him in 2017.
