"The thing I don't get about QH showing is that I don't think the ideal they're aiming for is attractive. I like a horse that looks like it's going somewhere, not dragging to it's death"
I agree. I think a lot of is is "one-upping" on each other. "If that person's Arab has its tail that high than we can go higher.." or "If that person's QH has his neck that low we can go lower.." That sort of thing. It is really stupid and childish as far as I am concerned.
They should have a limit in the rules as to how much is too much. I mean, I am sure that they don't want the horses chin dragging in the dirt, but there should be a limit. They just exaggerate things too much.
Well, supposedly, QH's are now to be graded down for necks below the horizontal, but I sure didn't see it at the show I was at, even the hunters had their noses in the dirt, and won classes that way.