> So actually you want to breed the "Icelandic" out of these horses and > make one "this is good conformation"-horsebreed?
Any horse breed should be a good conformation horse breed -- ie., mechanically functional for life in the wild (where nature determines if they are sound enough to survive) and for the work that humans have expected them to do for several centuries. A very good non-breed specific book on conformation is Dr. Nancy Loving's Conformation and Performance http://www.amazon.com/Conformation-Performance-Consequences-Common-Points/dp/0914327755 Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA ranch: http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/
