maggies_lens | SHE DID IT AGAIN!!!!

Fugly, WTF is wrong with you???? One moment she's bitching about breeding pinto's (agreed with her tho, the foal featured wasn't a good example) and dissing these folks with a skewbald stallion (I prefer to see confo shots before I make any call on that one, althought I thought it strange she was going on about his neck being so thick, every stallion I have ever met has had a crest like that to a degree, esp the QH-bred ones), but then she features a TB mare who has been 'bailed out of a bad situation' and makes out it would be perfectly alright to breed her. Um.... ok, maybe she needs to take a step out into the rest of the horse world over there. From what I have seen/heard, the USA is in the shit, financially. Seriously. Horses of good breeding are winding up on the way to Mexico and Canada, INCLUDING MANY TB'S, because people can't afford them anymore, there are NO homes!!!!!!! I assume the race breeders are still churning out thousands of foals and ex-racers every single year? So I also assume there is no lack of TB's available out there and in DESPERATE need of a good home. Like pretty much every other breed. Although I do note the 'made up' breed Vanners seem to be doing well, so much for all the shit people are hanging on their breeders. Why is she advocating breeding from TB's ONLY, and dissing the SHIT out of anyone who breeds from anything else? Believe it or not, Fugly, not everyone wants a TB. In fact that would probably be the absolute LAST breed I would look at. I need a horse with BRAINS, one who can THINK not just PANIC AND RUN!!!!!! I need a horse who will stay sound if it happens to be taken out of an arena (ok ok I know that's not fair, but let's face it TB's are delicate little hot-house flowers and could kill themselves in a cotton-ball filled tank), one who's hooves aren't going to be flat as hell posing soundness issues. Also I don't know if she's noticed but most new riders and horse owners are older and don't actually WANT to go cross country jumping or high level dressage or deal with highly strung huge horses, most people seem to want a PET, something they can enjoy, love, potter around on, pop the grand kids on to pony around the yard. Sorry but few TB's meet that criteria for a novice owner. All breeds of horses are ending up at rescues, markets and slaughter yards. TB's are not immune from this fate, in fact I think they probaby are the main ones considering how many of them are churned out. Why the hell would you think it's ok to breed more of them? She clearly looks at rescues, and her obvious bias is in favour of TB's, so surely she see's how many hundreds and thousands of them are in trouble? Why? Why? WHY, Fugly?????

There's nothing wrong with having a preferred breed, hell I think I make it pretty clear Arabians are mine, but to diss another breed and then advocate breeding more of your own even tho you KNOW there's so few homes for the ones that already desperatly need them?That is just fucked up.

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sad.. that mare's from my neck of the woods... she's taken a very familiar route that i'm aware of for many unsuccessful racers.. who *coff* WERE broodmare prospects.

but, IMHO, she didnt do enough on the track to merrit being bred AGAIN.
in fact im pretty sure her 2006 gelding is still at the track i used to work at.. not 100% sure.. could ask Corey to look her up...

Well there you go. I know TB's can be used for far more than racing, but like I said, how many people out there are after eventers, really?

they really are a dime a dozen even here.. hell i can get a retrained jumper from free through corey right now.. 14 and sound, was always owned by corey's fam until he was retired so i know he's going to be solid. they are SO good to their horses.. completely unafraid to retire them!

and he still has another horse sitting in a stall, being a pasture puff when he can who he's offered to me on occasions.. i might go put some hours on him and get him at least rideable besides track-trained.

sometimes she's hypocritical but i ignore that shit and go for the good stuff she says.. im always more interested in her confo critiques cuz im not good with those.

but yeah your right... and i wouldnt breed that mare anyways... raise a native's in there a couple times with Native Dancer, both of whom are known for their horrid ankles and legs in general.. *headdesk* BUT she does have Silver Deputy.. but the colt of his i worked with had ankle and knee issues as well *headdesk*

I think most TB's seem to have some sort of leg issues, which is why I am very wary of them, along with the somewhat psycho personality :-D They seem quite hell-bent on hurting themselves as often as possible, poor delicate little babies. They're sooooo pretty tho......
I do the same with Fugly, it just has started to really annoy hell out of me that she compares EVERYTHING with TB's, and if it isn't TB it's not worth it. I happen to really like loud or unusual coloured horses, blue eyes, and big hairy Vanners and drafts, of course I prefer them with good conformation, training and a good personality. I'm getting better at the confo stuff, esp with legs. I still have a bit of trouble with seeing bad hips, probably because I'm used to fat horses who's hips you can't actually see ;-)

oh they do, oh they do.

and yeah i'm with you. i REALLY love vanners (and as far as im concerned, i was into them before they became stylish!! TAKE THAT AMERICANS! :P) and i too really love loud coloured horses. and yes drafties are just CUTE! and yes... all teh above re; confo,temperment etc etc.

i'm starting to see things now... then again trying to explain what horse physiology is to a non-horse person for my essay this week probably helped because i had to be SOOO super clear as to what exactly everything was (and it was a super way to boost my word count lol)

:-D I loved hairy patchy cobs for years too. Had this really old English horse book which had a feature on gypsy's in it, I would stare at the horses for aaaages, big, hairy, patchy, Roman-nosed beauties :-)

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