4 year old qh gelding critique please :)

[tazzy207]

Ive put pictures of Taz on here before, but he's grown up alot in the last year and a half so i thought id put a couple up again for the conformation gurus to play with.
He's on the database as Jose Pequino if anyone wants to check that out as well. I just found today in the Canadian Supreme magazine, his sire, Jose Boon, is among the top ten stallions on the statistical hierarchy of the Canadian Supreme, alongside Smart Little Baggins Pepinics Master, and Genuine Peppy.
haha and by the way, on his reg. papers, hes papered as a red dun! ha!





And this one is just cute so I HAD to put it up lol

[JR]

He's a tad straight in the hip and shoulder, neck set on too high. Definitely not a red dun, can we say "Countershading ?" I knew we could I'm not going to pretend to know much about his cutting / reining lines, but I see some names that I recognize as quality up close on his dam's side. Incredibly sweet face and nice bone to his legs
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[horsetrainer89]

I think he has a nice hip, but does have a little bit to much of an up right shoulder. I also don't really like his neck. Other than that, I really like this guy. He's pretty cute and I love how he has a HUGE hip and nice big strong(looking anyways) legs. I kind of like his pedigree although I wouldn't necessarily prefer those names now. He does have some good ones on there though.

[tazzy207]

I might put a different picture on here for this because i noticed as well that his shoulder does look a bit upright, but thats the way the sun is shining on it which makes it look decieving so i will put a different picture up soon

[Linda_D]

He's a pretty nice gelding. I like his breeding a lot, especially that his sire and dam sire as well as his grandsires are horses with performance records.

His tail-male sire line is full of top performers, mostly cutters, back to Joe's Last, by the great old AQHA foundation sire, Joe Reed, a major source of speed, cow sense, and good looks throughout the AQHA breed. Joe Reed was the grandsire of Leo, sire of Leo San, sire of Mr San Peppy, sire of Peppy San Badger.

On his dam's side, before there were Impressive, Two Eyed Jack, and Jackie Bee, there was Coy's Bonanza, a stallion that ran AAA on the track and earned plenty of halter points, and was a major sire of halter and performance horses. Major Bonanza was an AQHA Ch and a national reserve champion working cowhorse. The second dam is inbred to the old time stallion Star Duster, a horse that could run a little and look good doing it, too.

The Joe Reed/Joe Reed II/Leo lines are nice middle-of-the-road QHs that are good looking and flashy enough (lots of sabinos) to be in WP but also have the cow sense to make cutters or team penning horses. Good luck with this handsome boy!

[tazzy207]

Thanks
that makes alot of sense because he is very cowy, I use him for penning and working cow horse. He's a little horse but hes got a set of wheels on him like a banshee haha.
His sire, Jose Boon is the only horse in the top 10 stallions in the canadian supreme that have been successful in all 3 show pens, reining, cutting and woring cow horse.
He was supposed to go for meat when he was a yearling because he was really lame on his shoulder so I got a call about him if i wanted him so here he is now.
Anyways thanks for the input guys!

[nrhareiner]

Over all he looks a lot like his breeding. The Jose Uno horses when crossed on Boon Bar/Doc bar horses tend to have a decent hip and tade bit more upright then other lines but still work very well and are very athletic. Then you add in the Major Bonaza botton side which is where I like to see that line long with nice tail line of Three Bars and Star Duster and he should make one nice handy little guy.

I am more inclined to think what is there in the pictures is more the angle of the photo then the horse. Over all those you can really see the lines in him.

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[NZ Appaloosas]

I agree with Heidi on the photo vs. actual horse. There are some things that are jumping out that are very nice about him (his hip, for one, looks like he could really get that engine under him and do some serious work). His shoulder wouldn't suit for the type of riding I prefer, but I can't see that there's anything really "wrong" with it.

Neck's a tad short for me, but the tie-in doesn't bother me. Some might say his head is not the best, but I have a preference for a noble head over an extremely dishy head.

Is this a slow-maturing bloodline? He doesn't look like he's quite "finished" with growing, for some reason...



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[tazzy207]

haha thanks
i noticed this picture doesnt do much justice for his head, it looks ugly lol. it actually doesnt look like that
as for his bloodlines heidi, im not sure what you mean by slowly maturing. there of a couple bloodlines that work for the reining, cutting, and working cowhorse world, and his bloodlines are one of the groups, with the jose boon, boon bar, which follows through from the royal blue boon, huge cutting lines. but like i said, thats only one group of lines that are in this discipline..theres the freckles type group, the highbrow cat group, etc.
and you're right, hes not quite finished growing...hes only 4 years old.
hes got some seriosu power comin out of that hind end lol. you know how you get those horses who are ocnstantly driving from their hindquarters, and always got their feet under them... this is one of the horses that have that natural type of movement. The Supreme lines tend to be like that as well.
Anyways thanks again for the input