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It is one thing to give a critique..... it is another to rudely trash a horse when the owner didn't ask for it.


So if the critique is positive, it's perfectly ok, but if a negative is mentioned, it's called "rudely trashing a horse"?

I'm sorry, but I don't agree here. There is no other way to learn if all is not balanced. You can't learn by only looking at the successful or good ones; the negative aspects of horses' conformation are better learning tools, since people remember the negative more than the positive (as in, what NOT to do). Like I said earlier, if people don't want anyone "trashing" their horses, then don't put them in the public eye. If a person cannot be honest in their assessment of a horse, especially if it's their own, then someone criticizing their horse is the least of their worries.