>>> Clout looked like a young, energetic horse. His body looked tight but I don't know if that's tension or if that's just his young, taut body.
Saddlebreds ARE bred to be hot, at least the show ones are. He's also a stallion, who's probably kept in a stall 24x7, so I'm sure he has pent up energy, normal energy as well as sex drive. And, yes, his body is taut, with some of that muscle and some tension, I'd bet. >>> I'd like to see someone ride a horse like that without bopping around so much--was the rider a bad rider or is that the norm with that breed? It's a very bad rider. A trot is a trot, and a decent rider should be able to post that trot as well as any. As far as the horse goes: he's three gaited, shown three-gaited, with no pretense of gaitedness. He has a metronome two-beat trot, and I suspect if we could see it without the knee action, it might be a very nice trot. It's just so darned hard to tell with the enhancements though. I don't see anything too terribly wrong with the horse that's not human-inflicted. I don't care for that long neck, but I wonder how it would look if the horse were allowed to carry it naturally for a while, so that it could muscle up more naturally. It might be less swan-like than I think.... Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
