>>> Here is a first prize stallion used in Finland, with 8,0 for proportions.
My goodness, I hope that's just a bad picture of him, because I don't care for the way he looks at all in that picture. I suspect that a lot of what I don't like is just camera angle though, but I'm not sure what you wanted me to see in this picture. I can't tell anything about the length of his back, his shoulder and hip angles. I don't know why people take stallion pictures from odd angles. Maybe this one is just a casual snapshot, but I don't see many formal shots of stallions taken from good angles either. The best way to photograph horses for conformation analysis is to take pictures square-on to the camera from all sides. Granted, as someone pointed out earlier, not all horses live to be camera models, but at least the pictures that Laree, for example, sent in were from good viewing angles. Karen Thomas, NC
