Stallion walking videos on thoroughbredtimes.com

[halo]

Its one thing to read past performances 70 years after the fact, but that particular writer was there at the time, and he was a very well respected writer at that, so I would presume that he knew what he was talking about.

[CA Michael]

Personally, I put more faith in the Daily Racing Form past performances than on a journalist. In this case, two journalists.

[Mood Swings]

I think they are helpful as well. However I am surprised when someone takes the time to submit their horse and then not bother to show the horse in a profesional or flattering manner. I won't name names but there is one farm in particular that does their horses a disservice by leading them on uneven grassy hills Why bother

[skeenan]

Catching up with this thread, there are some interesting points made. I think an efficient mover/individual who carries themselves well is more important than analyzing a conformation shot or a walking video. I agree with whomever said good balance and center of gravity will make for a better, more efficient runner than conformation alone.

I'm always on the fence with the beauty/good conformation vs. good runners with not-so-perfect conformation argument. Sure, there are plenty of stallions who have overcome obvious to serious conformational faults to be successful racers. But then those faults may be passed on to many horses who don't become good runners. Me personally, unless my mare strongly offset those faults, I'd have a hard time breeding to a good handful of stallions I've seen. I think starting off by breeding to obvious imperfections is different than going to a training sale and buying a good runner who moves fluidly but may be a homely horse on the ground... JMO...

[RuffianT21]

As for Seabiscuit, I loved both the book and the movie, but the last race sequence of the movie always makes me cringe with its inaccuracy. you would swear that Seabiscuit was about 30 lengths behind the rest of the field when Woolf was nice enough to screw his own horse's chance in the race (ummmm, right. like the owners wouldn't have sued Woolf for that) so Seabiscuit could have some competition and then he ran faster than the Black Stallion to catch up and win (speaking of unrealistic races, reading the race scene from Black Stallion always cracks me up...). I didn't see why the movie had to ruin all credibility in the last scene like that.

But anyway, sorry, that's all off topic from walking videos. For some reason the thoroughbred times website will not load for me today. darn it all.

[geowarrior]

Personally I think that movies are allowed dramatic license unless they advertise themselves as documentaries.

Non-fiction books, on the other hand should be as accurate as possible.