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Location: California | I ABSOLUTELY LOVEEEE mine!! I purchased her end of January simply because I liked the way she was built, she wasn't started, and she was in my price range. I never thought I would like her as much as I do. She was shown as a yearling/2 year old. She is now 4. I have maybe 30-45 days inconsistantly on her and she surpasses anything else I have ridden with that much time on them. She is super smart, not spooky, and very well behaved. I honestly give the great ground manners and handles any/all situations in an arena to her being a halter horse. I would definitely buy more if they are anything like her.
Here is a picture and her bloodlines. Would love to hear about/see others!
http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/ruby+red+stilletos
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| I love my halter bred mare. She's an all around show horse, can run 24 second poles with VERY limited hauling/training, is a 2d/3d barrel horse (placed in 2d open the other day, was really happy with her. haha). Plus she is going to throw correct babies with good bone and none of those little crotch rockets. I like horses with mass to them, and at 16 hands and 1300lbs, Dee fits that bill perfectly.
http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/dory+sonny+dee+mccue
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Location: California | FlyingHigh1454 - 2015-05-21 6:32 PM I love my halter bred mare. She's an all around show horse, can run 24 second poles with VERY limited hauling/training, is a 2d/3d barrel horse (placed in 2d open the other day, was really happy with her. haha ). Plus she is going to throw correct babies with good bone and none of those little crotch rockets. I like horses with mass to them, and at 16 hands and 1300lbs, Dee fits that bill perfectly. http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/dory+sonny+dee+mccue
I like mass too. I ride cow horses for a living and can't wait to step on her after riding all the little ones. She is 16.1 at the hip and probably 1100 pounds right now.. she is solid built but not so much that she can't move out. I was a little bit over the barrel bloodlines so I wanted something different to play around with. |
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | I have one and she's absolutely beautiful to look at, not what I thought I would ever have... since I swore off Impressive horses. I took her on a trade before I saw her papers. Now I will never have one again either; she has some stuff wrong with her that has turned me off completely. She's HYPP N/N but has horrible feet and I am constantly fighting abscesses with her. Biggest baby ever too, one scrape and it's the end of the world... she thinks her leg will fall off and completely milks any attention you will give her. Here is her pedigree:
http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/leaguers+crystal
And this was her before I owned her, she's snow white now.
ETA: She is beautiful as I said and quite a doll, I love her and have fought through the feet issues for 2 years. Now she's just a beautiful pasture pet, but when she feels good she can fly.
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Location: Alberta | I didn't know where this thread was headed, but congrats on your horse, she is pretty! |
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Location: Southern Oregon | Never thought I would own one....but I do! http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/dignified+sensation2 hypp N/N
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| There was another thread not long ago about Impressive horses as well. Yours is LOVELY! We just had a colt in who was in the same boat as yours. Was a show horse, and even won PHBA worlds as a youngster in halter. Easiest colt to break out we've ever had. No buck, no fuss. He acted as though he'd had seen it all before. He wasn't athletic at all, but absolutely great minded!
I have to say I love mine. She has some halter breeding crossed on performance lineage. I absolutely love her and wouldn't trade her for anything in the world. She is smarter than most, gritty as they come, and is exceptionally good minded. I can and have done almost everything on her and each request is taken in stride. She's won money in ranch sorting, team roping, and barrel racing just in the couple years I've owned her. (Prior to which she had no experience) She has awesome feet... in fact, my farrier loves her because she never has issues, but hates her because her feet are so dang tough to cut through. lol
I've started her over fences and she hunts a fence the same way she hunts a barrel. I plan to breed her next year in hopes that I will end up with a colt half as tough as she is!
http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/zippo+cody+sho+time
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Location: California | CallMeSkidmark - 2015-05-22 4:17 AM There was another thread not long ago about Impressive horses as well. Yours is LOVELY! We just had a colt in who was in the same boat as yours. Was a show horse, and even won PHBA worlds as a youngster in halter. Easiest colt to break out we've ever had. No buck, no fuss. He acted as though he'd had seen it all before. He wasn't athletic at all, but absolutely great minded! I have to say I love mine. She has some halter breeding crossed on performance lineage. I absolutely love her and wouldn't trade her for anything in the world. She is smarter than most, gritty as they come, and is exceptionally good minded. I can and have done almost everything on her and each request is taken in stride. She's won money in ranch sorting, team roping, and barrel racing just in the couple years I've owned her. (Prior to which she had no experience ) She has awesome feet... in fact, my farrier loves her because she never has issues, but hates her because her feet are so dang tough to cut through. lol I've started her over fences and she hunts a fence the same way she hunts a barrel. I plan to breed her next year in hopes that I will end up with a colt half as tough as she is! http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/zippo+cody+sho+time
I don't quite know how athletic this mare is yet, but she can turn a barrel beautifully and she can DRIVE with her hind end like no other. From my experience, usually the taller horses are harder to teach to get their longs legs underneath themselves but she does it naturally. Her feet are a little small but so far no actual problems. She has fornt shoes on only. Your mare is gorgeous and looks very well broke! |
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| I had an Impressive bred mare. The NICE part about Halter bred horses is that they are Conformationally correct. You can do LOTS with conformation!!
She did just about everything! Halter/Showmanship, pleasure, equitation, english, jumping (absolutely beautiful jumper!), ran barrels (3D/4D, started at age 16) and did reining. |
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Location: NE Texas | I know where there is a 2 YO colt (still a stallion) that is located in NE Texas that would be FREE to the right home. He isn't broke yet, but supposedly has been handled a good deal. He's owned by the daughter (she's in her mid 20's but still living at home) of one of my coworkers. The daughter has worked at a cutting horse barn for several years, so she's not a backyard horse person....she should know how to handle a horse. My coworker and her husband are splitting up and selling their place and the daughter is selling/giving away all of her horses to get out on her own and move to town. I have some pictures I could send, but she will be very particular as to where the colt ends up. You can PM me for more information and I can put you in touch with his owner. Here is his pedigree. http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/skips+bronze+kiss |
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Location: North Dakota | I wouldn't say halter horses are known for their correct conformation but you guys have some lookers! It's amazing his nice they look without the 'roids. |
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Location: Desert Land | Nateracer - 2015-05-22 7:36 AM I had an Impressive bred mare. The NICE part about Halter bred horses is that they are Conformationally correct. You can do LOTS with conformation!!
She did just about everything! Halter/Showmanship, pleasure, equitation, english, jumping (absolutely beautiful jumper!), ran barrels (3D/4D, started at age 16) and did reining.
I used to show, train, haul halter horses. They may be conformationally correct for the show ring, but most can not hold up to going on to being competitive horses and I would never look for a barrel horse that had the traits the judges look for in halter horses. |
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| TheOldGrayMare - 2015-05-22 12:34 PM Nateracer - 2015-05-22 7:36 AM I had an Impressive bred mare. The NICE part about Halter bred horses is that they are Conformationally correct. You can do LOTS with conformation!!
She did just about everything! Halter/Showmanship, pleasure, equitation, english, jumping (absolutely beautiful jumper!), ran barrels (3D/4D, started at age 16) and did reining. I used to show, train, haul halter horses. They may be conformationally correct for the show ring, but most can not hold up to going on to being competitive horses and I would never look for a barrel horse that had the traits the judges look for in halter horses.
I guess I should have said she was a 1982 model halter horse. That was long before all of the stupidity they do now to the poor halter horses with their foot angles, etc. |
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Location: California | TheOldGrayMare - 2015-05-22 9:34 AM Nateracer - 2015-05-22 7:36 AM I had an Impressive bred mare. The NICE part about Halter bred horses is that they are Conformationally correct. You can do LOTS with conformation!!
She did just about everything! Halter/Showmanship, pleasure, equitation, english, jumping (absolutely beautiful jumper!), ran barrels (3D/4D, started at age 16) and did reining. I used to show, train, haul halter horses. They may be conformationally correct for the show ring, but most can not hold up to going on to being competitive horses and I would never look for a barrel horse that had the traits the judges look for in halter horses.
A lot of them are WAYY too upright in the hind legs/hocks but there are definitely plenty out there that I do really like the build of. Especially the younger ones that haven't been fed up and beefed up too much. I would love to cross my mare with a running stud one day. I really like horses with some size to them too and the halter horses tend to be on that side of the scale. |
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| RIGHT! The colt we had in was what I consider a typey Halter horse. Heavy muscular build, broad... but at least had decent bone and feet. But he didn't carry himself athletically. Lazy and a little clumsy. He was fantastic minded, but he wasn't a barrel prospect. The two I've had were polar opposite of the colt we had in. They were barrel machines and great all around horses.
Now, that may change as he gets older, but we will see. He was sure something to watch though. I think his athleticism was compromised because of how broad he was. When riding, he felt like a meat head waddling around. lol
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Location: North Dakota | My old horse I considered to be a "halter horse".
http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/ravishing+beau
He grew to be a bit larger than he was supposed to (just under 16.1 hands) but he was super athletic and eye-catching. He never was much of a pole horse (I think the fastest he did was 23 seconds) but he found a new gear on the barrels when he was about 10 and starting winning the 1D locally. I wish I could have had him longer (had to put him down) because I really wonder how good he was becoming!
I never took him to any quarter horse shows, but he almost always won in the local halter classes.
I was so proud of his first halter trophy, when he was 4 years old.
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