New Conformation Photos

mariasmon · Wed May 09, 2018 9:45 am

Highland Reel

mariasmon · Wed May 09, 2018 9:50 am

Caravaggio

mariasmon · Wed May 09, 2018 9:56 am

Camelot

FlyToTheStars · Wed May 09, 2018 10:57 am

mariasmon wrote:Highland Reel

highland reel looks fantastic!

mariasmon · Wed May 09, 2018 11:43 am

Highland Reel gots the Galileo.

BaroqueAgain1 · Wed May 09, 2018 1:04 pm

Coolmore may have the best-looking stallion collection in the world.

I love Highland Reel, and he still looks like he could step out on to a race course. Camelot has that slightly more rounded build of the mature stallion. I see that Caravaggio is finally going grey all over, highlighting his sprinter hunkiness.

Ridan_Remembered · Wed May 09, 2018 9:02 pm

Lovely looking stallions. I think Camelot is gorgeous.

Northport · Wed May 09, 2018 9:39 pm

mariasmon wrote:Camelot

He is stunning. I hope he has a great season.

mariasmon · Thu May 17, 2018 9:51 pm

Cupid

mariasmon · Thu May 17, 2018 10:48 pm

Mastery

mariasmon · Thu May 17, 2018 10:58 pm

Telescope (IRE)

mariasmon · Thu May 17, 2018 11:01 pm

Zarak (FR)

BaroqueAgain1 · Fri May 18, 2018 1:53 am

I know Mastery was fast, but his looks do not impress me. Kind of an awkward-looking build.
Telescope, on the other hand, is quite handsome. <3

mariasmon · Fri May 18, 2018 10:08 am

BaroqueAgain1 wrote:I know Mastery was fast, but his looks do not impress me. Kind of an awkward-looking build.
Telescope, on the other hand, is quite handsome. <3

In fairness, Mastery is stood up really poorly in that photo. It appears that he resembles his sire.

Delamont · Fri May 18, 2018 1:54 pm

Heckuva neck on Telescope.

Treve · Fri May 18, 2018 6:44 pm

Telescope looks like he'd make a fine all around riding horse. I could just as easily picture him leaping over stone walls during a field hunt as I could see him strut his stuff in a dressage square or packing a junior around in the Eq ring.

Miss Woodford · Sat May 19, 2018 12:08 am

Cupid looks like a show pony. Telescope looks like a Warmblood.

Some more European stallions who entered stud this year:

Ardad (Overbury Stud, GB)

Time Test (National Stud, GB)

Wings of Eagles (Haras de Montaigu, France)

Pillar Coral (Anshoon Stud, Ireland)

Berkshire (Haras de Sorelis, France)

Storm the Stars (Haras du Lion, France) - wowza

Side note: all of these stallions have Sadler's Wells and/or Danehill in their pedigrees. European bloodstock has a serious bottleneck.

mariasmon · Sat May 19, 2018 12:17 am

Miss Woodford wrote:Cupid looks like a show pony.

He is 16.3 hands. Their website says 16.0 1/2, but one of the booking guys quoted 16.3 as his actual height. They always seem to fudge. Uncle Mo is advertised as 16.3 and he's more like 17.0 1/2 or 17.1.

Treve · Sat May 19, 2018 12:38 am

mariasmon wrote:
Miss Woodford wrote:Cupid looks like a show pony.
He is 16.3 hands. Their website says 16.0 1/2, but one of the booking guys quoted 16.3 as his actual height. They always seem to fudge. Uncle Mo is advertised as 16.3 and he's more like 17.0 1/2 or 17.1.

I don't think Miss Woodford was referencing his height, just the fact he looks like a fancy show horse

BaroqueAgain1 · Sat May 19, 2018 2:42 am

Storm the Stars is stunning. Berkshire is quite attractive, and showing a lot of his Arabian forefathers' looks.
If Europe is facing a Sadler's Wells (Northern Dancer) - Danehill (Danzig/Northern Dancer) bottleneck, are there some American stallions who would be a healthy outcross? Or is there just no getting away from Northern Dancer?