photo assessments

Gees, not much pastern angle there .

Lordy wrote: goldey wrote: Gees, not much pastern angle there . A little upright but not too bad. It's the same angle as the shoulder.

....on 2nd look the shoulder has more slope.

Despite that I bet its a very good horse

Multiple Group winning mare Arabian Gold (Dubawi) was "an absolute sweet heart" and @TommyBerry21 best of the AM 🏼

Lordy wrote: She looks quite weak behind in that shot

I agree she's a pretty plain type

Beliskner wrote: Is the horse standing on an incline?

Yep, the brick work should be level . Use that as a guide .

Body builders/sculptors etc spray on the Ol d 'Bondi Brinze' because the stage lights can mask their kale & quinoa infused muscle definition... I wonder if greys are victimised by a similar phenomenon?

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Frankel (GB) Bay 2008	Galileo Bay 1998	Sadler's Wells Bay 1981	Northern Dancer Bay 1961	Nearctic	1954	14-c
				Natalma	1957	2-d
			Fairy Bridge Bay 1975	Bold Reason	1968	19-b
				Special	1969	5-h
		Urban Sea Chestnut 1989	Miswaki Chestnut 1978	Mr Prospector	1970	13-c
				Hopespringseternal	1971	16-g
			Allegretta Chestnut 1978	Lombard	1967	1-d
				Anatevka	1969	9-h
	Kind Bay 2001	Danehill Bay 1986	Danzig Bay 1977	Northern Dancer	1961	2-d
				Pas de Nom	1968	7-a
			Razyana Bay 1981	His Majesty	1968	4-d
				Spring Adieu	1974	2-d
		Rainbow Lake Bay 1990	Rainbow Quest Bay 1981	Blushing Groom	1974	22-d
				I Will Follow	1975	14-f
			Rockfest Chestnut 1979	Stage Door Johnny	1965	1-l
				Rock Garden	1970	1-k
Piping (GB) Bay 2007	Montjeu Bay 1996	Sadler's Wells Bay 1981	Northern Dancer Bay 1961	Nearctic	1954	14-c
				Natalma	1957	2-d
			Fairy Bridge Bay 1975	Bold Reason	1968	19-b
				Special	1969	5-h
		Floripedes Bay 1985	Top Ville Bay 1976	High Top	1969	11-a
				Sega Ville	1968	8-i
			Toute Cy Bay 1979	Tennyson	1970	1-t
				Adele Toumignon	1971	1-u
	Saganeca Bay or brown 1988	Sagace Bay 1980	Luthier Brown 1965	Klairon	1952	1-w
				Flute Enchantee	1950	14-c
			Seneca Bay 1973	Chaparral	1966	1-n
				Schonbrunn	1966	16-c
		Haglette Bay 1978	Hagley Bay 1967	Olden Times	1958	20-a
				Teo Pepi	1961	17-b
			Sucrette Bay 1958	Zucchero	1948	16-g
				La Mirambule	1949	11-d

Ancestor duplications:

Northern Dancer

4m,5m x 4m

Sadler's Wells

3m x 3m

Apropos of this thread, a new scientific paper was released using photogrammetry and measurement looking at Thoroughbreds as jumpers.

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/279787340_Evaluation_of_Limb_Conformation_in_Jumping_Thoroughbred_Horses

The key details for repeatability are

1) All the horses were standing squarely on flat hard surface bearing its weight equally on all four limbs. Too many of the photos on this thread have horses standing on three legs or not squarely making reproducibility of results nearly impossible.

2) They physically measured anatomical lengths on the horse in order to calibrate the photo correctly. By measuring different landmarks by tape, they can then correctly calibrate the photo to measure distances. Any other way is open to significant distortion.

It is worth looking at the photos on pages 4 and 5. If you had this type of data for about 600 yearlings with known racing outcomes you could come up with a model for prediction of outcomes but even then you might only be explaining about 20% of the picture (no pun intended!)

that one looks unbalanced

Don't appear to be able to load that site in Internet Explorer or Chrome Byron. 

Thanks.