This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <<I was so incredibly smitten with her during the week long trial stay at my place....>> Yeah, I had the same experience meeting Joe. One nuzzle and I never noticed another thing about him until months later. <<Is this a common fault found in the conformation of many Fjords?>> I don't know anything about conformation, but I'd hesitate to call it a fault. I shim my saddle pad at the withers to level out my saddle, and both of mine have slightly higher butts. Not particularly more so than the quarterhorses at my barn - but now I will have to spend more time looking at butts. <<one look at her thick throat latch and say that ofcourse she will never be able to flex at the poll and have ner nose vertical.>> I think this is much more of a training issue. Joe has an impressive throatlatch, and can drop his nose vertical and trot comfortably. Not for me so much, but for a trainer I work with. He has as pretty a dressage carriage as you could ask for. But with someone not asking for it, he looks like a normal horse. Della has never been trained in any English riding forms, and her natural tendency is to go with her nose out, but we are working slowly on learning to flex and drop. Kate with Joe (basically, the best pony ever) and Della (who just slays me with those big soft eyes)
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