The summer picture does him more justice, despite the fly-shaking. :-) He's a cute boy, and I can see why you were smitten. The creamy winter hair is strange though. I've never seen that before. I'm big on the shorter horses, myself. At 5'2", 16 hh feels like a mountain to me. It hurts to dismount! Give me a cute shorty any day.

My mare has the "let-down" back issue too, but we're working on it, and everyone agrees her topline is looking better. There's definitely not a miracle cure on that one, though. Just lots of hard work and a certain shrug of shoulders on what can't be improved.