It is hard to say much from just one picture, once the horse stands around in a few different ways, the image can change drastically and once the horse moves, even the most ungainly duck may move like a well oiled swan.
So, taking that into consideration, first, that pedigree and his looks confirm it, he is bred and looks more like an all arounder than a western pleasure or any other single purpose type.
Even without a pedigree, you can see the Three Bars influence in his looks, which is really better than how some very lights western pleasure/trail horses of today are built, he can do more and stay more sound doing it.
I would say, the way he is standing there, he may be a bit back at the knee, but that could be helped with a little less toe and more heel under him.
He may be and a little more sickle-hocked than ideal, his front end looks somewhat heavy, as if he had been gelded later, his back seems a bit long and his hind end adequate, hip could be a tad longer, but he is substantial and his gaskin muscles tie in low nicely.
There he doesn’t really look high behind, he looks a hair lighter behind for his heavier front end, which goes back to maybe having been gelded later.
He does stand where he looks a little bit swayback, but he has good depth of shoulder and girth.
Horses like him do look better carrying more weight, but it is not necessarily good for them.
Being on the leaner side, for the heavier type horses, is always better for their metabolism, that tends to easy keepers anyway.
His neck is not really too short, just not thin and elegant, but then that is not what he is bred to be, not a very light type horse.
His throat-latch could be slimmer, but he looks like many crop-out paints.
His expression seems all Skipper W, they tended to have a mind of their own and not mind letting you know when they were getting annoyed.
Seeing several more pictures standing in different ways, much of what we may see there could change considerably.
Decades ago, horses with his breeding and general looks were some of the better race and ranch and roping horses.
It is easy to try to take any horse apart, the proof is truly in the whole package, what they do with all that and that, along with their disposition, is what makes a good horse.
