That picture of Hard Twist... he's pointing away from the camera, that's why he looks like that. I believe that was done because he had a rather unattractive head and a great hip and hockset... play down the bad, play up the good. :lol

All the Hard Twist-bred horses that I've been involved with have been real characters. I knew one who liked to run like hell and jump, like a dog, into the pond. :rollin

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005)