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Location: Somewhere over the rainbow | I ended up buying a son of Dashin Bye last week. He last raced in August of 2013. He has been in the pasture since and then I brought him home last week. Had him vet checked new shoes, the works. Let him get settled in. Rode him Sat, Sun, Mon. I was expecting high energy, maybe a little cantankerous, ill-mannered etc...I don't know why. Maybe a bad assumption on my part. While he def. does not know a whole lot, he was relaxed, easy going, no spook, very laid back. More like an old trail horse.
Is this a product of Dashin Bye or perhaps his dam, IB Business? I am hoping the energy level picks up soon but I like this nice fellow in the meantime.
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  Damn Yankee
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Probably a product of really good training. There are still a few trainers out there that know these horses won't race their entire lives, so they put more effort into breaking them so they can have success in other careers. |
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 Heeler Hoarder
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| I was expecting the same out of my OTT Toast To Dash daughter but she is the same way I love her ! I would take another OTT in a heart beat. I have heard Dashin Byes can be hot. I don't have any experience with them though but I sure like the looks of them. PM LRQH on here she knows a lot about Dashin Bye horses. |
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Location: Somewhere over the rainbow | I actually called his trainer before I bought him knowing they would know a lot more about him than the guy who pastured him. She could have sold me one of her horses but she told me he was awesome and if I didn't buy him she would buy him back. We are keeping in touch. She does have a passion for their life after racing. |
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| My off the track gelding is the same way. Super laid back and almost lazy 95% of the time but when it comes time to run he's all business. Then walks out of the arena and promptly falls back asleep. Lol I'm gonna give it to how much they were exposed to while on the track. I have come across very few things that he will even bat an eye at. |
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 Coyote Country Queen
Posts: 5666
| We want to see pictures! The Dashin Byes that I raised were very laid back, but all of the foals that this mare has raised for us have been that way.
Several years ago I bought a broodmare that was raced. When we had trouble getting her in foal we decided to ride her. She was very level-headed and a really fun ride. She didn't get scared by speed, she would walk calmly in the gate, run when I asked her, then walk calmly out. This was my only experience riding a horse off the track, but if they were all like her I'd be glad to have more. |
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Location: Utah | Both of my OTT that were bought for broodies/riding horses have been this way. My Streakin La Jolla mare was super easy to restart and run barrels on until a track injury forced her early retirement. She was running barrels less than a year off the track. I bought a Judge Cash daughter (based off her son I'm riding & 4N's daughter) that was was raced as a 2 & 3 year old, and as best I can track her history just been a brood mare since. We brought her home and was wondering what she would do if we got on. To my best guess it was 11 years between the track and when we got on. You would never know, she is super soft, kind and sweet. I pony my little boy on her while I ride others. I've had good luck with my OTT, but I do believe a lot of that is the foundation that both mares were given. |
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Location: Soon to be outta here:) | I have a daughter by Dashin Bye.....it must be his dam! My mare has tons of energy! she can and will go for hours and hours and NEVER gets tired. She has a ridiculous amount of speed too. She goes from 0 to 70 in a second flat I swear. She doesn't have a whole lot of spook either, but laid back and trail horse aren't really words i would choose for my girl haha. I love it all, shell make a nice little horse once we get her kinks worked out! Id be pretty excited if I were you!!  
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| In my younger days, me and a friend took a string of colts 2 summers in a row to put 30 days on. I thought they all broke out real nice. If you are breaking young horses, people will bring you a little bit of everything. Including a lot of junk. Straight thru these things had a head full of sense. They actually reminded me more of cow bred horse rather than the image I had of a race horse. |
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Location: Somewhere over the rainbow | Thanks all. I will try to get a pic posted. He is definitely a horse I enjoy working with. I appreciate the feedback. My Bly other experience with an OTT horse was my Streakin LaJolla mare but she had been off for several years. I am pleasantly surprised at the OTT horse attitude. :) |
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 Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | My Rare Form stud was like that. We got him in the fall and gave him all winter off out with the geldings. Got him in in the spring to ride through the cows and he rode off like a lazy dead broke kids horse. Kind of nice isn't it :) |
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Cat Collector
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| I just bought a son of chilled corona who was ran on the track last year, he did great and won over 40,000 i am lucky if I can keep him loping a circle. He is lazy and broke. Its nice because they get the spook out of them, but I thought he would be a bit more "rammy" and have some issues, but there is nothing! Love him to death. |
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 Angel in a Sorrel Coat
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Location: In a happy place | I think you are lucky. Wish I had him. |
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 Buttered Noodles Snacker
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Location: NC | I bought one thinking I would have a freerunner and ended up with a barrel hunter! haha |
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Location: NE Texas | I have two that were run on the track. One i've owned six he was 6 months old and we ran him last year a little bit. Both of these colts you almost have to peddle at a walk. I had two others that we ran a couple of years ago and they were the same way, though one was a handful on the ground, once you got on her she was really quiet. I've only had one OTT that was just too hot to ride, and knowing where she came from, I guarantee you it was how she was handled. All of my others have been somewhat lazy. I actually prefer a horse that's pretty forward so sometimes it irritates me. LOL |
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Location: Great NW | Congrats sounds like your gonna have fun! |
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 You get what you give
Posts: 13030
Location: Texas | That is how I want mine to be off the track. I like mine to be mellow! It's so much easier to train one that's calm than one that's hot |
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| I bought a first first down dash bred mare off the track last year and I was also surprised with just how quiet she was, no spook and not a whole lot of go until one day when I was slow working the pattern she just sat back and zoomed off out of third... she definitely has some speed! |
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 Lady Di
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Location: Oklahoma | This is why I prefer racebred horses. People look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them my cowbreds were always hotter than my racebreds. When you think about it, they have to be pretty calm to be loaded in those gates over and over again and run their guts out between w/o daily riding, plus their jockeys ride on postage stamped sized saddles. If they were crazy, you couldn't do that with them. |
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| Enjoy your horse! My OTT is like that at home, but he is all business when you haul him.........Not a bad thing, I love my horse and his sire is a 3/4 bro to dashin bye |
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Location: Desert Land | I love Dashin Bye! I rode a son of his a few years ago out of a merridoc daughter. My friend currently own Dashin Bye's full brother, Sweet First Down and I am going to breed a mare to him. |
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 I"m Jealous!
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Location: Benton City, WA | I think the extent of their racing career and the innate nature of the horse both factor into how they come out of it.
I think the career racehorses that are winners on the track are more intense, love having a job and are a different sort- they may have raced a lot (ie for years) are more likely to be hotter, much more so than the horse that only started a couple times.
In general, I do agree with Diane that race bred horses tend to actually be LESS hot compared to cow horses.
Also, I personally like a "career" horse- they may be hotter, but they have also already learned how to think at full speed. I think that is a huge advantage. JMO |
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Location: Down South Mississippi | My favorite horse of all time is my OTT gd of Mr Jess Perry . Nothing what so ever bothers her. She's willing to do ANYTHING! And the quickest learner I've ever had. But, also have a daughter of Hail Corona that ran on the track (won money to). I gave up on riding her cause she is so dang LAZY! We are going to breed her this year! |
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Location: MT | I've had 3 OTT horses (2 quarters, 1 TB) over the years and have been super pleased with all of them. All 3 of them had a great work ethic and have been some of my favorites that I've ever had.
I'm a fan of race-breds and really believe the majority of them are not as hot as some of the cow-breds I've been on. I tend to get along with race lines much better.
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 Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | HorsesNHarleys - 2014-02-19 8:48 AM I bought one thinking I would have a freerunner and ended up with a barrel hunter! haha
Me too! Mine is not slow & easy going when I ride - he wants to go places and go places NOW - but he is a total sweetheart. In fact, he was my pick to spend a day at my brother & sister-in-law's place buddying up to the new OTT horse I picked up this afternoon. Haven't ridden the new one yet so don't know exactly what I've got yet but I'm excited to find out. :)
I do love that my first OTT horse can clock without even trying. He ran in the 2D on his 5th run ever with about 40 days of barrel training under his belt. I wasn't pushing him but just loping, he could clock pretty well. |
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OTT racehorse not what I expected