Denny Emerson pretty much agreed with that study.
"People ask, “So, lets say Im looking at a horse at some place where I cant see him jump. What conformational traits should I look for that will determine whether hell make a good jumper?”
Excellent question! So glad you asked this! For fifty years Ive studied this, just to be able to answer this very question! YES! Are you ready??? I dont have a damned clue. Not one. Ive seen horses so gorgeous that you want to fall to the ground and writhe in ecstasy that cant jump a stick, and some ugly, badly made little runts that could punch a hole in the sky.
So, please, when you figure it out, let me know??
Courage. Boldness. Guts. Heart.
Why will some horses march right down and fire their bodies into the scary unknown, while another will get there and say, “Thanks, but no thanks”?
If you can tell this by looking at them, you must be a billionaire by now, because I dont personally know anyone who can really tell what a horse will do until you get him to that place where its yes or no.
“Does this horse have what it takes to go advanced, Denny?”
“Darned if I know, but I`ll tell you after you get him there.”
Even the most experienced, most knowledgeable horse dealers in the world, those like Bernie Traurig and David Hopper (above), who have bought and sold THOUSANDS of horses, theyll tell you theyve been wrong, missed some, made mistakes, bought some they wished they hadnt, turned down others they wish theyd bought—
Anybody who claims otherwise, anyone who says what an infallible eye they have, they are bullslingers. Avoid those people like the bubonic plague."
