What do you guys think of these colts? Pics on page 3,6,7,8 & 12

[danischi24]

Ignore the first photo of his fronts-he was set up bad & they look all kinds of crooked. They aren't though. I can't even tell you how uninteresting I find his pedigree. I'm not a quarter horse person & I think those lines are cutting lines anyway so if I was a quarter horse person, I still wouldn't be interested as I like the halter look.

 

[babyblue]

I like this one better then the paint. at the trot he looks fairly cute

 

[patandchickens]

Meh, "the halter look" (depending on exactly what halter look you mean) does not necessarily make a good riding animal, um, at all.

This one's stifles and hocks are built pretty straight (not a good thing); I'd be happier if he had more bone and foot for the size his body will eventually bulk out to; and he seems a bit roach-backed. He may also be somewhat cowhocked or at least stand pretty close behind, I can't quite tell from the pics.

If you want to do *light* riding and don't care how well he does it, those things might not be problems. If you want to be able to ride out for a few hours at a time, those things are IMO definite drawbacks/weaknesses, although you may decide they are not dealbreakers.

For CERTAIN I would absolutely not plan on riding him for 18 months or more. Not to say you can't do some things with him unmounted, but he is way immature for riding. Specially with the roachback vibe going on there.

I dunno, if the price was low and you have somewhere cheap-or-free to "store" him for a couple years while he matures, and if you think you won't mind his temperament or likely physical limitations too much, then certainly I like him better than the other two you've shown us. I wouldn't do it myself (might train him for someone else for free if I were bored, but not to sink my own money into); but everyone's different. And I REALLY would give him more than just a year before starting riding him.

Pat

 

[Hound]

The issues I have with his conformation are not limited to his legs (although those problems were most apparent in the first group of photos). His head and neck don't tie in with the rest of his body, to me if you draw a line at his shoulder he looks like two different horses. I also dislike his eye. He appears knock-kneed/toed out in each picture, again not a recipe for soundness as he will not distribute weight evenly across his joints, there will be greater pressure on the inside.

I understand not being a 'Quarter Horse person', and obviously we have a far greater selection of QH's here. However he just doesn't look like a good one, so you may be better off finding a better example of another breed.

 

[patandchickens]

I know what Hound is saying about the short/low-set neck with the poor tie-in to the wither... and certainly it is not what you'd ideally want... but I have to say that I have worked with a huge number of horses, mainly TBs and appendix QHs, with that sort of conformation and it is not normally a problem FUNCTIONALLY unless you want to do something "actually athletic" with the horse. It just looks less impressive and makes it a mite more challenging to get the horse using itself well. I don't see any reason to be especially leery of it in a plain vanilla ride-him-around-a-bit horse, I've known SO many good perfectly useful horses with that structure. Ditto with the very mild toeing-out.

JME,

Pat

 

[Rusty Hills Farm]

Danisch24 has already said this is not to be a competition horse but rather one to knock around on, and I'm seeing that. He's gonna be a grouch to handle and will respond to sweetness and a light hand rather than gruffness and a fist. I know because I have one of (vaguely) similar breeding and that is how he is. Gangly and uncoordinated at 1-2, started to pull it all together as a late 3-y-old, and blossoming at 4. At 5 he's a sweetheart who will do ANYTHING for me but dislikes everybody else. With everyone but me, he greets them with ears back and a mean eye. But he trusts me.

Yes, this guy has conformation faults, but nothing so glaring that he wouldn't make a nice ranch horse, which sounds similar to her own plans of jaunting around the countryside on him. He'll not likely make a jumper or a dressage prospect, but he'll have the heart to challenge rough terrain of which Danisch24 seems to have an abundance.

However, getting him is gonna mean WAITING to use him. Danisch, you have alluded to 2-y-olds here who are ridden. What you are going to have to remember is that folks here shove the groceries and supplements into them and give them farrier attention from day one, which obviously does not happen to youngsters in your part of the world. For this reason, if he were mine, I wouldn't be throwing a leg over him before he was 3 and had received all those niceties that have so obviously been lacking in his young life. If you can't wait that long and/or don't have that available for him, my advice would be to pass.

Rusty

 

[welsummerchicks]

If it's in the same place as the other horse, it's probably so footsore it doesn't even want to get over in the stall.

I wouldn't make a lot of assumptions about the horse. It looks very immature, but that can be because it's not getting fed a whole lot.

There are really nice horses in Israel at nice barns where they're not running around on rocks and where they're fed better and kept on better footing and behind better fences.

I can't give any recommendations for any of them as I haven't been there, but there are tons of stables in Israel on the internet, I'm sure it's possible to find horses that are fed, have their feet trimmed or shod as needed, and are of riding age.

http://www.ride77.com/en/israel/north-district

 

[danischi24]

The ground is good where he is & he has good food & hoof care. I'm just worried about the age really.
I just got results from my aunt & the leg specialist on the pinto. They said to do a simple flexion test on that hock & see how he does. If he passes, not to be too worried for simple hacking. We will see.

 

[EweSheep]

That sorrell QH colt is from cutting horse lines and Doc O Lena was popular back in the 70's. Sonny Dee was halter champion and Skip's I think came from Skipper W lines. With all that in the lot, he would only be good for cutting or something in short speed like barrel racing.

I didn't like the way he was "tied" in together in the neck and shoulder and rather crooked in many places, he has alot to grow up into. I would pass him by.

Now you are still wanting that pinto, and I hope the vet check will verify your questions and needs in him to be a good riding horse.

 

[danischi24]

As highlighted above. I need to go back & do some flexion tests to see how much it's bothering him.
P.S. Again, as I mentioned previously, I want a horse to ride out. No barrels, no dressage, no jumping, no endurance, no competing. Just ride out.