Jack Milton tb stallion pedigree for sport?

[Riker12]

Any insight into this pedigree for someone not familiar with tb looking for offspring with good temperaments and athletic?

[LaurieB]

For those who aren’t familiar with Jack Milton, here’s his current stallion page (pedigree link included).

Stallions – Grays Farms

[Virginia_Horse_Mom]

Here’s his page from pedigree query.

https://www.pedigreequery.com/jack+milton

There’s quite a bit to like further back, especially on his dam’s side of the pedigree, if someone is hoping to produce an eventer.

I don’t love his conformation though.

[NaturallyHappy]

I love Believe It/In Reality horses.

[Virginia_Horse_Mom]

Yup.

And Hoist the Flag was pretty special too.

[Riker12]

Thanks everyone. Looks like he has a fair number of offspring I will start looking them up

[EventerAJ]

In general, I have not really liked what I’ve seen from War Front sons. This goes for Summer Front, Jack Milton, Data Link, Air Force Blue, etc. I’ve seen a lot of them at the sales over the years, and most of them don’t excite me as sport horse prospects. On paper, War Front has a pleasant sport pedigree, and he makes a hell of a turf runner.

But when you look at them conformationally, many of them aren’t what I look for. The majority of them are longer bodied and shorter legged. Kinda like corgis. I’m not saying they aren’t athletic, and they may jump, but they don’t have big, ground covering movement and the uphill, modern type of today’s successful eventers, jumpers, and dressage horses. There are exceptions, of course-- every so often I see a 17h Summer Front who is pretty close to ideal! But I’ve just seen a lot of very average/below average conformation (for sport) from a lot of War Front sons. It’s pretty consistent across the sireline. Danzig/ND can make a shorter, compact horse, but somewhere in the War Front sons a long back is thrown into the mix.

We used to own the dam of Jack Milton’s best runner (Bad Beat Brian), and I’ve followed Brian through his career. He’s a tough, honest little horse, but he is small (under 16h), and built more like a QH than an upper level sport horse.

[Virginia_Horse_Mom]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing your experience and what you’ve seen. When I look at Jack Milton’s picture, that’s exactly what I was trying to convey about his conformation… he looks like a very good quality athletic horse, but not necessarily ideal for producing a certain type of sport horse.