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Location: middle of nowhere | Opinions? |
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 Just a Yankee
Posts: 1237
Location: Some where I haven't left yet | Love him or Hate him, he's athletic. I won't touch another Murrtheblurr. But I'm from the NW and I've seen too many that could Buck. He's a broodmare sire for sure, and quite a few of his grand get are great... but I've ridden an own son... and I carried a jockeys' whip that I named "the Sh-Murr honesty tool" Pass for me, more for everyone else. |
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Regular
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| I have a mare that is double bred sun frost on top and murrtheblurr on the bottom. She is a great horse but gets overwhelmed easily if you ask for more than she can handle. Then she will act out. She has only kicked up with me out of frustration. But she does have a history or rearing. I've learned my boundaries with her and just take it slow. I always thought it was the sun frost that created this personality because any other sun frost or Frenchman's guy horses I've known were quirky. |
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  The Original Cyber Bartender
 
Location: Washington | Also from the NW and was around a few, they were a handful. Hopefully they are so diluted by now that has changed. Proceed with caution would be my advice.  |
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Posts: 2013
Location: Piedmont, OK | I had a Dash Ta Fame out of a Murrtheblurr mare. he could literally fly but very touched in the head, very sensitive! |
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Posts: 1302
Location: California | I had a Bugs Alive in 75, Dash Ta Fame, Murrtheblurr gelding. HOT HOT HOT. Horse could flat out fly but just didn't have the brain to handle much. |
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Tried and True
Posts: 21185
Location: Where I am happiest | I'm another from the NW where he stood so saw and knew many.Had a few.No thank you! EVER. I know he has had some success with DTF but then, who hasnt? You could cross a donkey on DTF and it would be nice. Murrtheblurr is testament to that. lol |
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Posts: 10477
Location: MT | Cray cray |
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Posts: 824
Location: Duvall, WA | He is on my "never" bloodlines list. Have seen one literally run straight into a wall stiff as a board rather than bend and turn. Not fun. |
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Veteran
Posts: 268
| Also from the NW. I've seen two that I know of for sure that I run against fairly consistently, one gelding one mare, half siblings out of a Murrtheblurr daughter. Not sure on the gelding, but the mare was sired by a Bugs Alive In 75 son. Both are WICKED fast and athletic but not for the faint of heart. The mare is an awesome pole horse especially. They're definitely quirky and not for everyone but man, stay on your toes and out of their way and you've got a winner. |
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 BHW's Lance Armstrong 
Posts: 11134
Location: Somewhere between S@%&# stirrer and Saint | Speed!!!!!! |
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 Saint Stacey
| Not a fan. DTF made Murrtheblurr look much better than he really was. |
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Posts: 415
| With all I'm hearing about him I can't help but think he might be a carrier for something that makes the colts so hard to work with.....PSSM??? I know two Murrtheblurr's and they're both what everyone else is saying and I suspect them for PSSM but I forgot they even went back to him! Both are granddaughters |
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Life Saver
Posts: 10477
Location: MT | Every single one I've been around is just loaded with run (and athleticism) but their brains cannot keep up with it. They are hot, hot, hot! |
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Just a Yankee
Posts: 1237
Location: Some where I haven't left yet | I would agree with the PSSM.. Maybe.. BUT,,,, The "Shmurr" would win the NFR and every barrel race out there in the Warm up pen.... If your money was on the post, he'd never seen a barrel in his LIFE. He was beyond athletic, but he was also calculating, he would wait until your gaurd was down then he'd go to bucking. If he dumped you he would run around with his head and ears up, if he could have laughed he would have been. I can assure everyone that the Shmurr had ZERO physical issues. |
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Expert
Posts: 1446
Location: California | Had a grandson that was phenomenal temperament and awesome riding horse. Competitive in barrels, awesome rang horse. I'd seriously love to have him back. But that being said, he also was an easy jet grandson, so I don't know who he pulled from. |
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BHW's Lance Armstrong
Posts: 11134
Location: Somewhere between S@%&# stirrer and Saint | For those looking at Murrtheblur, Check the pedigrees! You will probably see alot of Easy Jet cross on the good ones. |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 634
| I knew of one that was super super nice when she wanted to be and smoke everyone, but you never knew when you were going to get that wicked awesome horse or Satan. Good luck but I would proceed with caution. |
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Posts: 878
Location: "...way down south in the Everglades..." | My one's got Murrtheblurr AND Beduino as his great grandparents...I'm hoping all the others in there dilute the cray cray out of him since it's farther back. Thus far, I'm not convinced, although I really like him aside from how flippin' hot he is. |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 682
Location: Northwest | Douglas J Gordon - 2016-11-01 11:59 AM
For those looking at Murrtheblur, Check the pedigrees! You will probably see alot of Easy Jet cross on the good ones.
I have a 3 yr old who's top side is Murrtheblurr x Jet Deck/Leo. She has a pretty ornery streak that will show up every once in awhile but the trainer is drooling over her and thinks she has what it takes to be a pro calf horse. |
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Member
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| I have a mare by a son of Dash for Cash out of a Murrtheblurr daughter. She is 16 this year and I have had her since she was a yearling. She was hot hot hot and as quirky as could be. I loved that made though and once I learned to pick my battles she was a great rodeo horse and 1d barrel horse. She was the toughest and grittiest horse I ever rode. If she slipped she would run harder. I bred her last year and have a very smart and willing weanling but have decided to not breed her again until I can work with her colt for a bit. |
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 The Color Specialist
Posts: 7530
Location: Washington. (The DRY side.) | Another person from the NW. And another that will not TOUCH anything that has him in the pedigree, EVER. Have personal experience with his OFFSPRING (not grand, great grand ect...). They tended to be either just plain idiots all the time, OR they were counterfeit (which is even WORSE.) Be riding along fine they come un corked any buck you orr and HURT you for no apparent reason. These were all 100% TB.
And I have ZERO problem "blaming" MTB, because I also had experience with offspring of the same MARES as the MTB foals, but by different stallions and they were WORLDS different.
Always hated that I hated the MTB horses so much because Never Bend is my FAVORITE TB, and i had plenty of others with him close up.
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Miss Southern Sunshine
Posts: 7427
Location: South Central Florida | I have a 2 year old who is by a DTF/MTB Sire and the dam is out of Dashing Cleat....yeah I know.
However, SO FAR, he has been amazing to work with. I have had my hands on him every day since he was born.
I am NOT A TRAINER.... but I halter broke him, taught him to pick his feet up (with help from farrier but did it daily) taught him to load in the trailer and accept a saddle pad and saddle.
Basically he never did much but look at it.
He went to the trainer who wanted to purchas him, and he is still there. According to him and what I have seen, he has picked up everything almost immediately. He is working cows currently.
I understand the breeding issues, so my phylisophy is that we won't know until he has been seriously under pressure.
He has roped calves, had to swim, opened gates, lived with and with out other horses and had to be alone.
Famous Las Vegas (the sire) was very young when we made the cross, but there are 3 get from the prior year that are discribed almost the same. Also 6 or 7 from the year I bred.
MTB is a GGS on the bottom of the top...maybe it's diluted or I got a good one. FLV though is very calm and quiet and also a 1D stallion.
If I get cra cra, it's my own fault and it could come from so many places...but probably be a fast cra cra.
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