Photo Assessments

Congrats warri, very nice horse.

yeah! lovely win with Redangelo yesterday!!

bit long in the rear pasterns!

looks back at the knee and hocks camped out. Looks a little roach backed also

Duramente

Gay3 wrote: A short description as to whether the above horse was any good & if so, over what distance would be handy . Many of us won't go to the trouble of googling.

bradjm wrote: I hope you haven't wrecked the thread

Nice and long - my preferred type of stock. Just not as popular in the yearling sales ring. 

Lovely shoulder on that horse... good depth of girth. Wanting some more strength behind IMHO and neck. Nice animal and looks v athletic. 

runnerdance wrote: Bay horse at top of thread doesnt look as balanced or as well put together as one below... front, middle and rear not connected (could be 3 different horses). Plain head etc Just a horse IMHO... ... this is where i will come unstuck and you tell me hes a champion lol

rem286 wrote: I'm with runnerdance on Duremante, even though this is obviously a talented horse, it isn't something I would be jumping at.  I love his front end but not so much the back end.  Maybe this is where I am going wrong and why my strike rate is so poor.  The miler I do like the look of.  Who is the miler by the way?

At the risk of being a liar again, Lord Kanaloa did not run in the Japanese Derby. My mistake.

Most of the horses I pick tend to be the sprinting types.  I would like to be able to pick out a good middle distance horse though.

First think that stands out for me in the staying type from Japan is the very low knee and short cannon bones. I am very big on the "long levers" on a horse, I don't like the shallow chest cavity and how the horse falls away behind the saddle. not one that would jump out at me in the paddock but wouldn't put a line through before I had seen the pedigree page either.

Cant fault the second horse, maybe a fraction short in the rein but that could be exaggerated by the length and excellent confirmation of the chassis.