New Conformation Photos

tachyon · Mon Mar 31, 2014 9:52 am

Northport wrote:Some unofficial conformation pics posted by Shadai (neither are standing stud yet)

Just a Way

He looks like a real turf horse.

tachyon · Sat Apr 19, 2014 9:30 am

-- from France-Sire.com

Legolas(JPN) - 2001H. Sunday Silence(USA) x Carling(FR) by Garde Royale(IRE) - standing at Elevage d'Airy and Haras d'Enki.

shortlead · Sat Apr 19, 2014 10:58 am

I find that lean, "just off the track" look very attractive. It reminds me a great deal of the old fashioned portraits of horses of the long-gone past, before photography came into being.

Starine · Sat Apr 19, 2014 12:17 pm

shortlead wrote:I find that lean, "just off the track" look very attractive. It reminds me a great deal of the old fashioned portraits of horses of the long-gone past, before photography came into being.

Me too.

tachyon · Sun Jun 01, 2014 7:32 am

Novellist(IRE)

standing at Shadai Stallion Station
http://www.shadaitc.co.jp/information/o ... ion_id=344

Northport · Mon Jun 02, 2014 9:42 pm

Not new and not really a conformation picture, but I didn't know where to put this picture of the Biscuit. Wow.

Flanders · Tue Jun 03, 2014 1:57 am

Northport wrote:Not new and not really a conformation picture, but I didn't know where to put this picture of the Biscuit. Wow.

That is painful to look at it. But its nice to see a photo I have never seen.

Insane Crazy · Wed Jun 04, 2014 2:55 am

Flanders wrote:
Northport wrote:Not new and not really a conformation picture, but I didn't know where to put this picture of the Biscuit. Wow.

That is painful to look at it. But its nice to see a photo I have never seen.

Those front legs are just...something else.

serenassong · Wed Jun 04, 2014 7:31 am

Just goes to show you what kind of heart and determination he had. That leg is real scary. Not sure when in his career this was taken, but wowza.

BaroqueAgain1 · Wed Jun 04, 2014 4:11 pm

Is it possible that the photo was taken when the Biscuit was just starting to shift his weight, making him look more over-at-the-knee than he really was?

Miss Woodford · Wed Jun 04, 2014 6:47 pm

BaroqueAgain1 wrote:Is it possible that the photo was taken when the Biscuit was just starting to shift his weight, making him look more over-at-the-knee that he really was?

No, his legs were that bad.

Della · Thu Jun 05, 2014 7:40 am

Miss Woodford wrote:
BaroqueAgain1 wrote:Is it possible that the photo was taken when the Biscuit was just starting to shift his weight, making him look more over-at-the-knee that he really was?
No, his legs were that bad.

No long toes or underrun heels on that guy!

Ketama · Sat Jun 07, 2014 1:24 am

The pic for Camelot's Australia campagne:

BaroqueAgain1 · Sat Jun 07, 2014 1:44 am

Quite a contrast between Camelot's perfect proportions and the Biscuit's over-at-the-knee knobiness.
And yet...I doubt that Camelot is ever going to have a best-selling book written or popular movie made about him. For all his faults, The 'Biscuit is a racing Immortal.

Charlie · Sat Jun 07, 2014 11:11 pm

Camelot has a very arabianish head and neck. Nice looking horse.

If you cut of Seabiscuit's legs he's a nice looking horse, but man those legs look painful.

mariasmon · Thu Jun 12, 2014 8:46 pm

Orb

bare it all · Thu Jun 12, 2014 9:02 pm

Orb has more bone than I expected.

Northport · Fri Jun 13, 2014 8:14 am

He got really chunky in a hurry

BlindLucky · Fri Jun 13, 2014 9:43 am

Northport wrote:He got really chunky in a hurry

Same thing happened to Blame is his first year there. I saw him right off the track and he was lean and a little homely, and saw him the following summer and he looked like one of the pregnant broodies.

RuffiantoRags · Fri Jun 13, 2014 5:28 pm

I was surprised too how much Orb filled out. Claiborne should look into putting all their stallions on a diet, you'd think they changed after they lost Secretariat, he was always on the heavy side.