SHE DID IT AGAIN!!!!

[maggies_lens]

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.

Comments

[phoenix-rose-up.livejournal.com]

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...

[hagazusa.livejournal.com]

Very precise description about why I would never choose to ride or own a TB. Some of the crossbreeds are okay: over here they breed TBs with Irish Draught to come up with hunters and jumpers who aren't completely psychotic. But even that would be too much horse for me and I prefer to stick to flat work.

The OTTB at our stable is the biggest black hole as far as never ending problems and vet bills are concerned. He's also the biggest horse in the stable, 17.2, and only a few very patient and competent people can ride him . . . in the weeks during the year in which he is actually sound for riding and not in rehab again.

Vanners aren't a breed, more of a type. They're supposed to be good bombproof horses for novices but the ones at our stable are dramah kings. They also don't get enough turn out because their owners are worried their coats will get too dirty. Gah.

Love Arabs, but they're a bit too hot for me, being a 44 year old novice. I'll be a Welsh pony slave for life . . .

[madeyemads.livejournal.com]

TBs aren't all bad. I don't own one (although Lexie is half) but I have worked with them. You get the odd nutcase but most of them are nice horses, they excel in many different sports- they're really good.
That mare, however, was NOT breeding quality in my book. They are dime a dozen and she had a hideous shark fin wither.

[starsechos.livejournal.com]

I have to agree. That there is a place for just about everything. Not everyone can afford to spend 20k on horse they only ride on trails on the weekends. Not everyone needs a horse that is destined for a national show career. There is a niche for the mid grade quality trail/ranch/work horses with good minds and solid bodies. I am currently in the process of proving a young colt I have. He will be tested hard on difficult trails all summer, also, he is going to be proven in working cow horse/reining work. He may not get to national level, but his breeding, temperment, athleticism, and good nature have allowed him to remain in tact thus far until he proves his worth.

I know a lot of WONDERFUL horses that are bred around here for that niche. For those who want a soild sound mid grade/priced horse.

Fugly bothers me on SO many levels. I really do enjoy her candor at times, but the fact that she opposes jsut about everything breeding, but at the same time is training and trying to prove HER OWN stallion, to me is the epitomy of hypocratic elitism. I can do it, but if you do it your an "asshat".

[starsechos.livejournal.com]

In case anyone wants to rip him apart, here he is this past summer just coming three.





Not a great shot, but it shows his body a bit nicer.