Horse conformation?

[rebs9]

I would ask a question regarding dressage. I know everybody is testing it out at the moment, but does anybody know if the horse's conformation will effect how it does?

For example, if a breed on it's page says it is supposed to be medium build and fabulously gaited, and the foal of that said breed you have is draft build and fabulously gaited, the second horse will not do as well. If so, a lot of the new PBs that came in do not have anything written up in their information, so I would like to know how we know what our breed's natural conformation/traits are, or are we supposed to breed/event and guess?

Thanks

[Dukes]

I believe that most foundies are fairly close to their breed conformation, build & height wise. Like all my American Buckskins are medium heavy and ranging close to their breed height. So I would look at all your foundies to kinda figure out what height they might be, like mine says 16hh so they're all like .5 below (a few are closer and one is taller). They SHOULD all be their correct build. Usually.

[Zimmy]

I believe that most foundies are fairly close to their breed conformation, build & height wise. Like all my American Buckskins are medium heavy and ranging close to their breed height. So I would look at all your foundies to kinda figure out what height they might be, like mine says 16hh so they're all like .5 below (a few are closer and one is taller). They SHOULD all be their correct build. Usually.

some foundies will come in two sizes, that's not at all uncommon with breeds (public and private)... BUT the ones that do that usually mean that the breed standard is very close to being between the two anyway... so sticking right in that range should STILL be correct (for instance GWB SAYS slim build, but I have had horses that were JUST barely over to medium build actually be closer in confy trial to the breed standard than a slim build that was TOO slim... and that one has done better for me in Dressage as well)...

so yeah, basically what Megan said but I just wanted to toss that out there, that if you get two different sizes the breed standard is likely right on that borderline anyway and after that I would just check confy trial to see who is closest...

[kwiedman]

As long as they are close, the horse should be okay. I mean, look at my chunky monkey. He did fine. I honestly trained everything with good stats, didn't care about the build or height. Sometimes they surprise you

[rebs9]

Thanks for the replies guys, you have been a lot of help