Fugly yearling

[JB]

@Jenerationx

I don’t have the eye for babies at all… I can only see the awkward at some stages until they even out.

Once you get familar with the pillar of support, neck emergence, and LS gap, which are things that don’t change, at all, once a foal unfolds, then you can see that no matter the growth spurt, and you learn to distinguish between actual structural conformation, and postural/stance or growth “conformation”.

What you can’t tell until they’re done are back and neck length. If they’re even in a butt-high phase past around 24 months, you can’t know if they’ll finish even, but the odds go lower and lower the older they are and are still/again butt-high. When they’re butt-high that also straightens the hind end, and it can be harder to tell how that will finish up

[B_and_B]

Exactly a year old, one of the pictures I bought him off of.

The day he arrived!

Three years old

[chestnutmarebeware]

He’s adorable and doesn’t look like he was made of spare parts as a yearling. And he’s super-handsome now!

[sara78]

Hère AT three or 4 months

[sara78]

Now…17 months…ashamed to post her but ok​:sweat_smile:

[bugsynskeeter1]

I’ve seen some funky looking yearlings at the sales - the pictures are just shiny horses or ones standing on hills or in holes to look more level. They are also fit up to look their best. I wouldn’t judge mine compared to them.

[chestnutmarebeware]

She’s not ugly! Her various body parts could be growing at much more different rates (see my girl above)!

I love her bald face and head, and the rest of her could be much worse!

There’s a reason that TB breeding farms keep the yearling in the back pastures!

[JB]

@sara78

Now…17 months…ashamed to post her but ok​

from this pic I don’t see anything fugly at all, but then again, all the perspective is off, so…

[B_and_B]

That doesn’t look fugly at all! I think their heads and rib cages always end up looking too big for quite some time. Which makes them randomly weird looking. Those gorgeous sale pictures have a lot of camera angle trickery in them!

[CanteringCarrot]

Bad photo with a glowing eyeball (just got back from being gelded at the clinic and was concerned with stuffing his face), but my yearling has more head than neck I just feel like his head looks particularly long. But “growing into their head” is a thing!

[sara78]

Yes, m’y filly too, she looks liké that, long head and ugly neck

[JB]

There’s a reason the Neck Fairy exists Heads and backs grow ahead of necks. Hind ends grow ahead of front ends.

[Jenerationx]

The “Neck Fairy”… I’m dying laughing.

[cripplecreekfrm]

This is so true! I have a WB mare that I bred. When I broke her at 4 she was still very physically immature. When I was on her I could reach her ears with no problem without leaning over much. Now at 8 I can barely reach her ears from the saddle. I’ve found that their necks are one of the last things to stop growing.

[sara78]

This IS how she arrived after 10 hours trip, skinny and fugly yearling stage, i will post New pictures in a few months to sée if she will improve a bit😆. She s 18 months quarter horse

[JB]

Awww she’s not fugly at all! She has a coming 2yo body and head, with a yearling neck. That will change fast

[chestnutmarebeware]

She’s going to be gorgeous! Love her markings.

[candyappy]

@sara78

Now…17 months…ashamed to post her but ok​:sweat_smile:

In all fairness to her, that isn’t the most flattering way to take a picture to judge how she looks?

Stand her up properly and post another.

@sara78

This IS how she arrived after 10 hours trip, skinny and fugly yearling stage, i will post New pictures in a few months to sée if she will improve a bit😆. She s 18 months quarter horse

She looks smaller here then the other picture, yet you say she is 18 months ?

I think she will grow out just fine, eventually . More than anything she lacks fitness and muscle tone. Is she able to get out and move/ run at will in a large pasture?

That can make a huge difference for some.

[sara78]

Yes this was AT night when she arrived from a long trip, she s out now all thé time

[sara78]

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3 months later, she will bé 2 Years old end of april