This message is from: "Vanessa N Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
We have this problem in dogs frequently. I will never forget the first time I put my hands on the top dog in my breed years ago. I couldn't quite understand why he was doing as much winning as he was from ringside until his owner let me put my hands on him. The way he filled my hand was extraordinary. Since then I've found that touching dogs in crucial places has revealed dips in the topline where hair has covered things up, that legs were more correct than markings would suggest and more. Obviously horses have less hair to hide things but even with labrador retrievers, touch is an important part of getting to know an animal's construction. If anyone on the list is a horse judge, I'd be curious to hear what your experience is of judging as it relates to this in 'real life', not as it relates to the virtual evaluation. Is touch a part of your judging experience with horses? Vanessa Weber -------Original Message------- From: Pat Holland Date: 02/04/06 09:31:44 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: finally hit me This message is from: "Pat Holland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Carol, It finally hit me - why a DVD won't work! Sometimes the Evaluators have to feel the horse. I remember at one of the training seminars we were shown pictures of conformation faults - we saw a horse with a weird white marking on his leg (not a Fjord) that made it LOOK like it was bench knee - an optical illusion. Someone said we didn't need to worry about that with Fjords cause of the no white - it was brought up that - two things..the stripping, molting and hair on the legs sometimes covers what is really there. The angle of the pastern and the angle of the shoulder should be the same (as well as the hoof wall) and with the hair it sometimes looks like the horse is steeper in the pasterns or shorter............thus we were told you may have to go and feel the leg to see it - that is one of the reasons I clip horses...to take away that wonder........ Just a thought.... I'm slow but I do think all the time. Pat Holland ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- Text inserted by Panda Platinum 2006 Internet Security: This message has NOT been classified as spam. If it is unsolicited mail (spam), click on the following link to reclassify it: http://127.0.0 1:6083/Panda?ID=pav_10326&SPAM=true ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------
