New Conformation Photos

Izvestia · Fri Jan 16, 2015 8:38 am

RuffiantoRags wrote:Honorable Dillon is just 15.3, only just turned 5 so maybe he'll grow a bit more and reach 16 hands like his sire Tapit. He is a very correct horse. I don't like the position of his neck either, but that was the photographers choice.

I agree. He's not terrible, he just looks small and light-boned. But, that's better than being large and light-boned. He's got a very beautiful head and he looks quite balanced, but that neck - it just looks higher set than I prefer. I think he will do well though, he had good speed, has a quality pedigree. He sure is a pretty colour too.

Izvestia · Sun Jan 18, 2015 12:39 am

I don't know if anyone has ever shared this, but Declaration of War has quite the muscles:

http://coolmore.com/stallions/declarati ... farm_id=66

BaroqueAgain1 · Sun Jan 18, 2015 1:00 am

Wowza. What a hunk.

Kay16 · Thu Jan 22, 2015 6:30 pm

Not sure how "new" it is (within past 2 years at least since he moved to Calumet in 2013) but this is only the second one I've ever seen of Point Given (the other the one when he was at TC). I must say TC kept him in pretty good shape.

http://calumetfarm.com/stallions

TC

mariasmon · Thu Jan 22, 2015 6:31 pm

Surprisingly, he hasn't changed all that much. I bet Monarchos's first confo pic from Claiborne would look quite a bit different from his current one.

mariasmon · Thu Jan 22, 2015 6:34 pm

mariasmon wrote:Surprisingly, he hasn't changed all that much. I bet Monarchos's first confo pic from Claiborne would look quite a bit different from his current one.

BaroqueAgain1 · Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:07 pm

Point Given hasn't acquired that thick-necked, heavy-through-the-belly, I'm-a-laminitis-candidate look that we've seen on some older studs, so I think both Calumet and TC have done a good job keeping him in good shape. I've read that the big stallion decided soon after he retired that he was NOT interested in the whole being ridden thing, so it may have been a challenge keeping him fit.

sweettalk · Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:08 pm

where's the rest of his head?

Kay16 · Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:20 pm

BaroqueAgain1 wrote:Point Given hasn't acquired that thick-necked, heavy-through-the-belly, I'm-a-laminitis-candidate look that we've seen on some older studs, so I think both Calumet and TC have done a good job keeping him in good shape. I've read that the big stallion decided soon after he retired that he was NOT interested in the whole being ridden thing, so it may have been a challenge keeping him fit.

Maybe he calmed down after some years?

BlindLucky · Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:35 pm

That recent photo of Monarchos looks weird, like they took his hind end and stuck it on a broodmare.

Life At Zen · Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:49 pm

BlindLucky wrote:That recent photo of Monarchos looks weird, like they took his hind end and stuck it on a broodmare.

Claiborne's stallions are the fat kids in gym class.

BlindLucky · Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:53 pm

Life At Zen wrote:
BlindLucky wrote:That recent photo of Monarchos looks weird, like they took his hind end and stuck it on a broodmare.
Claiborne's stallions are the fat kids in gym class.

He's actually at the Nuckols' farm in KY. The first picture was him starting out at stud at Claiborne.

Life At Zen · Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:30 pm

BlindLucky wrote:
Life At Zen wrote:
BlindLucky wrote:That recent photo of Monarchos looks weird, like they took his hind end and stuck it on a broodmare.
Claiborne's stallions are the fat kids in gym class.

He's actually at the Nuckols' farm in KY. The first picture was him starting out at stud at Claiborne.

It only takes Claiborne a year to get their stallions from fit to flub. But I didn't realize he was at a different farm. Missed that memo... I'm assuming from years ago.

BlindLucky · Fri Jan 23, 2015 12:01 pm

Life At Zen wrote:It only takes Claiborne a year to get their stallions from fit to flub. But I didn't realize he was at a different farm. Missed that memo... I'm assuming from years ago.

He's been there since 2008.

Twingo · Fri Jan 23, 2015 12:23 pm

Verrazano (More Than Ready)

Della · Fri Jan 23, 2015 12:41 pm

Pinfiring on that left fore? I didn't realize that was still done -- really?

mariasmon · Fri Jan 23, 2015 12:49 pm

Della wrote:Pinfiring on that left fore? I didn't realize that was still done -- really?

It's freeze firing.

Izvestia · Fri Jan 23, 2015 12:50 pm

The horse could run, but fat ankles...or is that his hind feet are small? I don't like the slope of his short stubby pasterns either. Something about his knees down doesn't make me love him. Nice body though.

carole · Fri Jan 23, 2015 3:14 pm

Izvestia wrote:The horse could run, but fat ankles...or is that his hind feet are small? I don't like the slope of his short stubby pasterns either. Something about his knees down doesn't make me love him. Nice body though.

I don't know how he looks now but at the beginning of the year when I saw him in England, he looked stunning! Gorgeous big horse with a very athletic build despite his height, his temperament was also very good!

BaroqueAgain1 · Fri Jan 23, 2015 4:40 pm

Is there a big old lump on the front of his right rear cannon bone? Or is his white stocking causing the optical illusion of a lump?
Sure looks like that leg is less than straight and 'clean.'