Gotcow, you are hopeless. I feel like I'm in a western version of "All in the Family" and you are Archy Bunker in a cowboy hat.
I will say this, it takes a pretty fit athletic horse to jump fences, or stay at a nice slow lope all collected - so they are athletes - just like ballerina's are athletes. They just may have a different build and not be involved in something you care to watch. It doesn't make them "duds"


*sigh*

And somehow you conveniently missed the part where I said "and I'm talking about the kind of skills required for an ideal Quarter Horse which are the reason the breed was created in the first place"

Do you seriously believe old ranchers were looking for good fence jumpers when they started their breeding programs? never wondered why short cannon bones is supposed to be a good thing on Quarter Horses?