photo assessments

Who is training him?

He reminds me of a horse I bought (but by New Approach) who also had a similar dam line. We gelded him too late, he was very top heavy, and we ended up with knee problems throughout his career. He was talented but unsound. I liked this one at the sales but he made too much for me - good luck with him!

GAJ wrote: He looks correct and balanced in the overall view, his head looks plane but maybe the photo?, Legs look good. Nice deep girth. Looks strong.

Agree with GAJ, also like his sloping shoulder and big rear end. Very strong all over. Built like a sprinter, look forward to seeing him race fit

Sister Dot tails can ruin an overall impression for sure, I like to imagine it is there

A prominent local trainer has a Dawn Approach 2yo colt, running on Monday at Ballina, He has a very high opinion of him, The colt is a heavy type too.

ps the Inglis website also has a shot of him walking.

First impresion. Heavy

Do not ask me I have never known anything about horse confirmations, I was only interested in following betting markets, which I assumed took into account a horse’s confirmation, its fitness, its jockey ,its barrier , its weight etc etc etc. As a punter my bottom line was the money in my pocket after betting on any race. Good luck to those who were / are a better judge of horse flesh than me, as long as you can gain some financial advantage I am not going to argue against your superior knowledge.

They dont look so bad in the vid. 

I haven’t seen the video

I thought he presented well , he is a closely coupled young fella but having a look at the video a nice fluent walking type , the timber looks ok to me and he really looks like he's thrown to the dam and I've never laid eyes on her , ( has that Savabeel look ) you could do a lot worse if you were the buyer imo.

Not an illusion Gaj lol , it's there but oh so very slight imo , as the Yorkshire man said ...nowt to worry about.

Sorta like love Gay 3 , I wonder what she see's in him. 

I think most of our yearlings are, goldy, unlike the NZers! I distinctly remember a foreman of Weirs' who'd worked for all the top studs, telling me how tough the scrawny looking, farm bred ones were vs. sale prepped yearlings.
Apparently they'd come in light, grass fed & gutless looking but after a light prep then spell, they'd bloom & rarely have soundness issues.
Having worked seen 1st hand how all these big studs worked, he firmly believed almost all were sub laminitic by the time they hit the sales, due to over feeding & under worked.

Maybe if he wasn't so closely coupled people might not think that way ? just a thought fwiw. ( we shall see who buys and watch progress , if any lol )