Here
is a group of Conformation Faults -
HEAD
FAULTS:
Overshot Jaw - Parrot Mouth; Undershot Jaw - Monkey Mouth; Convex Head - Roman
Nose; Small Eye; Glass/Blue Eyes (Purebred Classes Only); Coarse muzzle;
Coarse, Meaty Features; Lop Ears; Narrow Eye Set; Excessive Length to Head;
Large Coarse Ears; Wide Set Ears - Sheep Eared; Excessively Close Set Ears
FORE
LEG FAULTS: Calf Knees - Sheep Knees - Back at Knee; Club Feet; Off Set Knees -
Bench Knees; Bow Legs - Bandy Legged; Knock Knees - Knee Narrow; Straight or
Short Pasterns; Coon Footed - Excessive Sloped Pasterns; Tied in Knees - Tied
in Tendons; Splay Footed - Toes Out; Long Cannons - High Knees; Stands Wide -
Base Wide; Stands Close - Base Narrow; Pigeon Toed - Toes In; Buck Knee - Knee
Sprung
REAR
LEG FAULTS: Post Legged; Camped Out; Long Cannons - High Hocks; Bow Legged - Bandy
Hocked; Straight or Short Pasterns; Coon Footed; Stands Close - Base Narrow;
Stands Wide - Base Wide; Stands Under - Sickle Hocked; Toe Out Cow Hocked
FOOT/HOOF
FAULTS:
Club Foot; Dished Foot; Contracted Narrow Feet - Mule Footed; Founder -
Laminitis; Broken Axis of Pastern and Hoof; Feet Out of Balance
NECK
FAULTS:
Poor Hinge; Thick Throat; Excessive Heavy Neck; Ewe Shaped; Low Set; Straight
Neck (No Shape); Short; Excessive Crest
BODY
FAULTS:
High Croup; Long Coupling - Long Back; Straight Shoulder; Flat Withers - Mutton
Withers; Sway Back - Low in the Back; Rafter Hips; Short Croup; Short Hip;
Shallow Body; Steep Sloping Hip
TAIL
FAULTS:
No Tail Carriage; Wry Tail; Low Set Tail
MOVEMENT
FAULTS:
Irregular Strides - Lameness; Stubby Movement; Choppy Stride; Short-Strided;
Wings In; Lack Coordination; Paddles Out
BLEMISHES
AND UNSOUNDNESS: Lameness or Soreness; Splints Caused from Faulty Conformation; Ring or
Side Bone; Epiphysitis; Jack Spavin; Bowed Tendons; Cataract/Cloudy Eye;
Ossolets; Curb; Hernia; Bog Spavin; Capped Hock; Capped Elbow; Thoroughpin;
Wind Puffs - Joint Capsule Hygromas; Splints with no Faulty Conformation; Scars
from Injuries
Here
is a short conformation and action evaluation:
What is the breed? - Hot Blood, Warm Blood, Cold
Blood, Horse, Pony
What is the selected use? - Performance, Show,
Competition, Work, etc.
HEAD & NECK:
breed and use; head – size, set; nose – shape; eyes – size, set, appearance;
nostrils – size; mouth – shape; throatlatch/jowls – size, shape; neck – length,
shape, set
BODY:
breed and use; chest – width; shoulder – slope, muscle; withers – height,
balance; body – shape, depth; back – length, shape; hips – level, width; rump –
shape, muscle; stifle – shape; girth – depth; loin – length, width,
musculature; hip and croup – slope, length, level.
LEG:
breed and use; gaskin – length, muscle; forearm – length, muscle; cannons –
length, bone; knees – size, set, shape; joints – size, shape; hock – size,
shape; hindleg/frontleg – angle, shape, stance; pastern – length, slope, shape
HOOF:
breed and use; symmetry, size, shape, balance, health.
OVERALL BALANCE:
breed and use; symmetry, length-height proportion, levelness of topline, depth
of heart girth to leg, center of the horse, top-to-bottom line ratio, square,
thirds, equal lengths.
STRAIGHTNESS OF ACTION:
breed and use; walk and trot up, walk and trot past, walk and trot away.
VARIATIONS OF STRAIGHT ACTION:
breed and use; dishing, paddling, plaiting, crossfiring, forging, over
reaching, speedy cutting, scalping, brushing.
WHEN I LOOK UP MOST OF THESE TERMS, I HAVE TO LOOK UP MORE WORDS FROM THE DEFINITION TO UNDERSTAND THE TERM. ....WELL, I GOTTA KNOW IT.
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