Wednesday, June 22, 2016

See The Change--OTTB Conformation Update

For almost a year there, I barely posted an progress pictures. Then I did one last week and now I'm like RAWR CANT STOP ME NOW, so here you go. Conformation progress, one shot per calendar year.
This is Courage on July 26, 2013. It's the night before he left the track and two weeks after his last race.
This is spring of 2014. Courage had a good chunk of the winter off and was just starting to come back into work. We were still attempting jumpers/eventing with mixed success (my code phrase "mostly failing").
Summer of 2015. Courage has been at the dressage barn about eight months and was successfully competing in training level dressage.
Summer 2016. We've putting putting in the long, slow, methodical miles in the sandbox. We're about 6 weeks from celebrating the three year anniversary of Courage coming off the racetrack.

Huh. Pretty cool to see it laid out like that.

PS I know it's not kosher to take conformation shots with wraps on but I like wraps and he's not for sale, so y'all will just have to deal. His lower legs are no more or less ugly than they were on the track.

15 comments:

  1. It's so interesting to see the changes! Thanks for sharing :) P.S. That is one hot hunk of OTTB!

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  2. I love the change right around his withers in the last photo!

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  3. Even if it's slow going, you're definitely doing something right. There's such a huge difference even just between last year and this year in his muscles and how he holds himself.

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  4. Man he looks good! SUCH big differences!

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  5. He is really muscling up nicely! Good job

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  6. He looks so good! Nicely done.

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  7. that is one fine looking horse.

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  8. The musculature in that last photo really tells me you are on track. He's gorgeous in the 2nd photo, but it's more fat than muscle. The 4th one is solid strength going in the right direction. :)

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  9. He looks like a different horse! I love seeing progress pictures :)

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  10. Also - that tail transformation tho!

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  11. Next time you're feeling like you haven't accomplished anything, look at these pics. You are absolutely on the right track and you are doing very, very well. The proof is in these pictures.

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  12. His butt and neck difference is incredible. Sexayyy

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  13. This is great! And so handsome!!! I should do a similar post. I came across some 2014 pics of when I first got Knight and he looked so skinny and with a triangle butt/hips. Ew. Ribs galore.

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  14. I don't care about the wraps. Like you said, he's not for sale so what difference does it make?

    He's made some strong changes- not on his own, so props to you for that. Do you think you'll ever go back to jumping?

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