You be the Judge with Larry Cutler

Who would you pick based on their conformation?

Larry Cutler is a highly regarded National and International Stock Horse judge. He has been breeding Australian Stock Horses since 1979 under the ‘Karraba Park’ prefix and has an eye for a good horse.

See below how Larry has placed these three Thoroughbreds based on their conformation.
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First Choice.

A beautifully balanced horse with a strong, powerful hindquarter with great angles through his hocks and pasterns, enabling speed with the ability to stop and turn back over his hocks. He is short, coupled with a lovely neck set out of his wither and a deep girth giving him lots of heart and lung room through the chest. He has a great length of rein with a nice head and a kind eye.

I would love to ride this horse, trained from day one as a work-and-play horse. I think he could be a really exceptional horse. He would be a very comfortable ride with a big stride and would cover a lot of ground at a walk or canter. Mustering all day on him would be a pleasure. I would love him to be a mare around 15 hands, but you can’t have everything.

Second Choice

I like this filly. I am looking for a horse that can be an allrounder. Go to work mustering all week and then take the family to do sport on the weekend; pony club, campdrafting or polocrosse. She is well balanced with a good angle on her shoulder which is the same as the angle of her pasterns. She will go through all of the different growth stages yet but those angles won’t change and she will be a very nice horse to ride as a mature horse.

She has well-developed gaskin muscles for an unbroken two-year-old and excellent angles in her hocks allowing her to be able to perform neat, tight haunch turns necessary for stock work, campdrafting and polocrosse. She will go through a number of developmental changes between now and fully mature, but she will be a very nice mare as a mature horse.

Third Choice

My first thoughts were that he would be a bit rough to ride. He is higher at the hips than the wither, giving a downhill ride. He has a nice neck set out of the withers. He appears to be a bit cow hocked and is behind in the knees. I don’t believe this horse would last as a competition campdrafter or polocrosse horse as he would have a lot of pressure through those front legs that may not stand up.

He would not be a horse I would pick out of a mob to do a day’s mustering on.

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