Judge my Mare's Conformation!

[chincoteagueeventing]

Hello all! I’m fairly new to these forums, but I find them a very useful tool in asking others for their tips/suggestions/opinions/etc. I have a 7yo. Chincoteague pony mare, who ideally is my all around partner, and who I hope to train for some lower level eventing and dressage. She stands right at 14.2, and obviously has not had the luxury of generations of corrective breeding, but instead her conformation relies solely on natural selection.

Please give me your input and help me judge her conformation based on the requirements of modern sport ponies that are help to registry standards. What are her faults and weaknesses? What are her good attributes, what are her strengths? What could be improved with corrective breeding? Thank you all so much!! :D[ATTACH=JSON]{“data-align”:“none”,“data-size”:“full”,“data-tempid”:“temp_44087_1552585925235_207”}[/ATTACH]​
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[Daventry]

No pictures are showing up in your post. Seeing as this discussion was posted in multiple forums, it would be best to just stick with posting it once so that you have all feedback in one place.

I also agree with what other posters have mentioned in the other forums already - there is no such thing as “corrective breeding.” It doesn’t exist. You can try and breed a mare to a stallion in hopes of complimenting conformation or hope to improve on it, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to happen. For example, if a mare has an extremely short neck and you breed to a stallion with a long neck, it doesn’t mean the foal will end up with an average neck.

[JB]

I actually think all breeding should be “corrective” Meaning, improving. I think that’s what she means, since she said “what could be improved”.

But no, you’re not going to take a short bull neck and suddenly produce a foal with a long, well-shaped neck. Then again, no horse with any single fault of major significance should be bred in the first place :no:

But yeah, pics aren’t showing up And this is the better forum for this question.