My horse has a pretty high rump.
http://s753.photobucket.com/albums/xx171 ... Could this interfere with her being good in any english discipline?
I don't know much about good and bad conformation but since people were kind of beating up your horse via answers I wanted to tell you a little story about one of my horses. She's a morgan horse and people were always saying that she should only be a trail horse because she didn't have the build to be a barrel horse. Well, guess what? That little mare took me to state finals for barrels. So , moral of the story, it doesn't all come down to the way your horse is built.
She looks like she has a high rump, but her withers look fairly high too. It is a bit hard to tell with your pics, but it seems as though her rump and withers are about the same height. She doesn't look really athletic, but she is a lot better than many horses that I have seen. She has a nice face, and I like her shoulders and the way her neck attaches. As others have said, she could likely do lower levels in a number of disciplines.
no it will not effect her movement or ability to do any discipline.
pets question and answers,www.5d2d.com My horse is a BS paint and she has a higher rump .. its just the way their built.
She does just fine in western and english pleasure.
Although I see a lot of QH's/Paints doing western stuff such as barrel racing, but I have seem come cross country QH's/paints every now and than.
shes beautiful by the way, I really want a black horse.
good luck with whatever you do with her!
It doesn't look so much higher in the second picture!! You did not say how old she is, she looks young. A lot of times the withers will catch up in the fourth year. Some horses do not stop growing till they are 6.
She looks like a nice horse! Just keep working her and make her great.
@ Fennec ....
I beg to differ unless she wants to do something like trail riding which could be done in English as well ..... No engine, not a body style that's "in" right now. A Western saddle will slide forward before an English one will with no chance of a croup.
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It's the whole back end .... No speed events because you're going to have a very hard time from keeping a saddle sliding forward ... My mare is downhill but nothing compared to yours. Your mare looks straight in the pasterns, terrible feet (I'd get a new farrier). She has no engine for speed to go.
She doesn't have a big enough hip and she's not what they want in the western show ring (they have to be Flashy AND pretty to win anything .... Not plain like they want HJ horse.
I don't think it would i mean has long as the high rump doesn't show up too much in her gait you should be fine showing in smaller shows, it all depends on what her gait is like and how it shows up, i don't think it would matter too much
you won't know until you try! just make sure nothing is painful/detrimental due to her conformation, or too stressful for her
good luck!:)
She does need to be muscled up, but that's what I was going to say. She has a "jumping bump".
Tbh she has more conformational problems than just a 'high rump' .
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If you want to do anything other than Pony Club or very small local shows, you'll get laughed out of the hunter and dressage rings.
She would fit in better in a western discipline.
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I wouldn't exactly consider this to be "plain".
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos -ak-s ... (My mom and her horse, not me).
I also wasn't implying she'd be going to Congress or Worlds on that horse. I was thinking "backyard podunk western horse". Not saying all western horses are podunk backyarders.
Yes a 'high rump' is a sign that they are good jumpers: D
