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He was critiquing a friends horse which made him sound gushy .... and not critiquing.
The reason horse oversteps his front foot's track is ... he is very sickle hocked and you noticed he did not line the horse's front end up to show he toes out nor to let us see if horse is cow hocked or not.
IMO this horse also has a very weak groin area and he rants on how deep the flank area is to draw your eyes away. Also, the camel hump at the withers will catch up with this horse with downhill withers and a constant sore back issue.
The narrowed up front end and clean between the front legs with no V muscling along with the longer neck for balance allowing the cutters to get down in the dirt in front of a cow was Doc Bar's gift to the old bulldog heads up body blocking style cutters and Doc O Lena and Dry Doc showed them how low a cutter could go ... lol
No V muscling between the front legs lets a horse cross a leg over the other as in side passing and really is an asset when doing the 360 spins at the high competitive speeds they have to do at todays events...
And what makes a reiner light on the front end is simple ... his withers are higher than his hips ... and if you study successful families of reiners conformation they have two other major requirements ... sickled hocks with toes running straight as possible for sliding stops and natural flying lead changers ...
Barrel horses have totally different conformation requirements for working at turnpike speed instead of cutters and reiners that work at school zone speed.
Crossing these two totally different conformations is not like adding cream and sugar to your coffee.
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Conformation video...