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Location: Cedartown, Ga. | I'm having a hard time deciding which one to keep. The paint is an unpapered coming 2yr filly. The bay is a papered coming 9yr made with Easy Jet lines on top side and Cutter Bill bred on bottom side. Which ever one I keep will be used for pleasure, sorting, and barrels.
To me the papers don't really mean anything because I don't plan on breeding. I mainly want opinions on comparing confirmation, but any added suggestions will be gladly taken and pondered in my decision. Sorry for the poor photos too, but they are the only ones I have at the moment.
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Location: MD | I like the look of the 2 yr old :) |
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Location: Texas | So many factors go into that decision, but I am assuming that you are in no hurry to get to the races this year if you are considering a 2yo. That being said, I like the 2yo for a barrel prospect. |
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Location: Jersey Girl | I like the 10 yr old. Win win with Easy Jet and Cutter Bill. Cow on speed are great crosses IMO. |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | For Keeps I would keep the spotted baby... better made better legs more balance and a whole lot prettier. |
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Location: Southern Oregon | Paint is better balanced IMO.... I would go that direction. |
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Location: Where I am happiest | Ditto on the paint. |
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Location: South of Canada and North of Mexico | Cant go wrong with Cutter Bill and Easy Jet!!! My old 30 yr gelding is a grandson of Cutter Bill and that horse did it all! And he is SANE and sound! |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | The paint has the better confo shot so I'll say paint. 9 year old may be set in her ways and may not enjoy the extra job lol. She also has some little bitty legs in my opinion... May not hold up to tough riding. Looks like a good broodie prospect tho with the papers. I like her as a broodie but not as a barrel prospect
Also, 9 year olds neck is very thick and ties in very low to her shoulder. I'm afraid a breast collar may cut her wind off with her neck tying in that low.
Edited by IRunOnFaith 2015-01-12 2:20 PM
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| I love the looks of the paint!  |
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| IMO you are kind of comparing apples and oranges. I love Easy Jet but she does have conformational flaws. She looks out of shape, maybe a little soggy with a hay belly but it's hard to say. I do like the size of her heart girth and she looks like she has a nice hip, I like the muscle over stifle and the fullness over her butt. Her front foreleg and gaskin do look a little weak and even a soggy horse should have some "pop" in those two areas IMO. Her front end is a little hard to judge given the angle of the picture. She looks a little thick necked but that could be because the picture is taken with her head turned slightly toward the camera. She looks a little higher headed than the paint but she is not having her poll scratched to get her to lower her head. I like the way her belly ties in with her flanks as well. She has long underline and a nice short back. Her pasterns and hooves are cut off in the picture. Camera angles can make or break a confo shot. Being that she is 9 I would imagine that she broke? Another plus if you want to go on right away with training.
The two year old definitely has more eye appeal at first glance however the more I looked at her the more I could dissect her. She looks very sweet. I do like the way her neck ties into her front end and that she looks by nature level headed but she is on the end of a rope and someone is scratching her head. She will have a higher set of withers than the mare as she begins to age. I do like the angle from her hip to her tail dock however I feel she lacks in muscle. Now she is only two so there is a lot of changing that is going to happen. Her quarter seems a little weak in muscle as well and she has little to no gaskin to speak of. She seems pretty cut up from her belly to her flank and that won't change but she does have a nice long underbelly compared to her top line which in theory accounts for length of stride. from the picture it looks like she already has as much foreleg as the mare. There is also something about her front pasterns other than the fact that they are little long that I am not in love with but I can't pin point it for you.
With all that being said, if I was looking for a long term investment and a possibility of resale (I know you made no mention of this but things come up and I look at every horse as to what it is going to worth in the future market.) I would go with the filly. She is far better balanced and has more appeal. I think if the mare was legged up she might surprise the heck out of us but from these two pictures the filly would be my pick.
Edited by cyount2009 2015-01-12 5:22 PM
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| I keep coming back to this thread. I lied, the more I look at the two the more I like the mare. She has more substance to me. But comparing a mature horse and a baby is so hard! |
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Creator of the "Un" Birthday!!
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Location: Cedartown, Ga. | Thank you ALL for the honest opinions and straight forward critiques!
Cyount- that is one of the reasons I was torn about maybe giving up my paint filly.....the mare just looked like she has more substance than the paint would mature into. She also has a whole lot more speed to her too.....the running blood definitely shines through on her!
My decision has actually been forcefully made, which makes it a lot easier on me lol. The mare is actually my daughters.......she bought her as an investment project, but I obviously liked what I seen in her, so I was contemplating buying her from my daughter. Like life happens though, other things have come up so I won't have the money to buy her from my daughter. I really think it's a win-win for both of us though.........I still get to keep my paint filly, plus i'm going to ride on that mare for my daughter to get her fine tuned and riding really nice- so I still get to enjoy the mare, and my daughter will more than likely make more money off of her.
But again thanks for all the insightful suggestions and opinions!! 
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