he is the first step in the righ direction IMO because he is out of a WC producing mare, that was bred to a top TB, in which produced an appendix N/N colt
but he is more then that, the people took a risk, taking a nice mare and breeding her to a TB, which there has not been any recent halter horses who have done acceptionally well in the halter pen (non that I AM aware of) they took this horse, who is a conformationally correct horse, compared to what is winning.

our family friend saw him win the world and she said that he was an absolute cut above the rest, that he did not have nearly enough "stuff" as the others, that placed behind him, but he had what should be winning, a tight top line, long legs that arent posty hocked (especially like so many of them out there today) a long neck and a great shoulder.

he opens this door, that it is OK to have a horse (especially at such a young age) not be dripping with muscle.


But wouldn't it be more reasonable to start with a horse that looks conformationally correct when compared to conformationally correct horses instead of a horse that only excels among seriously flawed horses?


DeRenzo still can't be a performance horse, he still has structural flaws that prevent him from becoming an actual saddle horse, his offspring will likely be the same, no to mention his excessive height for a stock horse. Other than expanding the gene pool, how is he such a significant improvement?


If the goal is producing horses that look good and are also structurally correct so they can do more than just standing there, wouldn't it make more sense to use horses who resemble that ideal better than DeRenzo? like this one?


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