Ranch Riding Geldings
AS A JUDGE, understanding a horse’s balance and structure—and how they relate to performance—is critical. The conformation ideal is supposed to maintain breed standards, but that always goes back to balance and structure and how those factors affect soundness, longevity, and performance. As I assess these three ranch horses, I’m looking for qualities that will help them be useful and stay sound.
With this class of geldings, as stock breed rulebooks stipulate, I look first for overall balance, then structural
