You are doing amazing things. Keep us posted so we can all appreciate your hard work, accomplishments, and kindness to this horse.
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so…i posted about Ajax on facebook and low and behold, a couple of people put up pics of their horses who “look a lot like him”. This one is the closest of the two, but the woman said that they both have short necks and big heads. All i see in common is a general overall light color and a similar gait captured at a similar place in the stride.
My boy:
Her mare
I see smaller, steep hindquarters, similar depth of body, similar neck set. Similar shoulder angle and longer loin, too. Your guy has a coarser head and legs. I like your guy better, no offense to the owner of the mare should she see this 
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my gelding’s photo is at an angle so his hip def looks shallow …here’s a screenshot from a vid not exactly same degree of animation, but a better angle for better eval. But that other pic was the photo that got the responses from the ladies i know on facebook. Standing still, i think her mare has kinda shortish legs… Speaking of my guy’s leggs…i don’t call them coarse, I call em treetrunks!
re: mare’s owner: She’s not on here.
He is pretty. Is it just the pictures or are his feet in desperate need of trimming?
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I still agree with everything I said re shared confirmation between them. Your gelding has a steeper hip, even. They both carry themselves with poise!
Well yeah! They are in desperate need of trimming for sure. One of the main reasons i picked him to start next. Most of the others chip off their hooves fairly regularly and evenly … crossing the creeks, this one doesn’t do it as gradually. This guy is the worst one. One of two that aren’t good at self trim. (other one is tame and gets regular trims …same time as the domestics) But this guy, he grows long toes and chips off…but in hunks. We’ve gone through this process already. Second time around now. What scared me is he has a long crack straight up one toe. Took photos sent to farrier … asked if i should have him sedated and trimmed, he said put him back over the creek. I decided to get him gentled instead. I can touch his front legs all the way down to his hooves as of now. Am working my way down his body and am to his hip. Working my way down there…
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i think her head is proportionately quite a bit longer. Her neck pretty much more short and her back longer (or her legs shorter…whichever) and of course her legs much more thin. My guy has a wide angle in his hips, not bad for putting those rear legs up under himself. His worst conformation fault is straight in his hocks. He’s pretty quarter-horsey in that aspect.
You are brave to even consider " self trimming" in captivity. I don’t know where in the country you are but I would think it is next to impossible to do it successfully unless you lived in a dry, arid state with the right living conditions for the horse!
Here in my mid- west state no way. Hopefully you can get him gentled and worked on soon so that crack doesn’t become a permanent issue. He moves so nicely I would hate for him to suffer chronic lameness later on .
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Thank you for your concern :).
When i first brought them all here, i brought many loads of big rocks from the creek and put all around the waterer. It trimmed their hooves right down. Not pretty at first, there were some pretty ugly looking chunks coming off some of those hooves. Once i got them semi-gentled…enough to turn them out onto pasture, i never had to even consider sedation/stock and trim. Except one little mare and this guy. The smallest and the largest …lol.
but it does happen mostly because out on all of our pastures we have several rocky semi-dry creekbeds, the creeks meander around all the pastures and they walk across every day. And they wade into to drink. Just coming down to the barn at night they need to move across a rocky creek.
Our llamas have never been trimmed, nor have our cattle many of which are pretty old, and almost all our sheep (except the ones in ‘assisted living’ …that has no rock at all) rarely need a toe trim at shearing time.
It’s a race to the finish with this guy and his feet. I think he will be of the temperament that he will be more accepting of a stranger than most of mine are, so i’m really hoping the farrer won’t cause another big batch of training. I think?? he’s going to be kinda easy… He’s rather chill. I also think he will be what y’all call a push ride.
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I guess you will find out soon enough 
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She is way more refined and lighter in bone than him. They do look similar with a shorter neck though.
Both are nice.
Yeah, i like that mare too except for her long back and short neck. Not my aesthetic. (i don’t think my guy has a short neck)
I’m over long backs and long necks. I had a phase of loving the look, but have changed my style. I have had some Morgans, mostly mares but one gelding in particular also, with long backs, but most of them had long necks and sturdy legs to hold all that up lol.
