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Location: Oklahoma | Anybody EVER use a halter bred horse cross for barrel racing. This mare from this sire is really nice and looks the part. Just starting out with her |
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 Straight Shooter
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Location: SW North Dakota | I have a huge bay roan son of Robert Roanford that does EVERYTHING. And I like a lot of the Impressive bred horses- I don't currently have any, but I've had a handful that were fabulous athletes before the time when testing for HYPP was common. |
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Location: Desert Land | I have seen halter horses become barrel horses...I wouldn't say it's a common occurrence though. They aren’t often athletic enough to get out of their own way and don’t usually have the bone/feet to stay sound. I used to train paint halter horses about 10 years ago, so I was around a ton of them. Very rarely did I see one I wanted to try to ride. I’m not real interested in the stud you referenced – that dude is way too inbred for my liking. BUT if you like your horse and think she has potential – that’s all that matters. Good luck and I hope she makes a nice horse for you. |
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Location: Desert Land | ND3canAddict - 2016-02-19 7:23 AM I have a huge bay roan son of Robert Roanford that does EVERYTHING. And I like a lot of the Impressive bred horses- I don't currently have any, but I've had a handful that were fabulous athletes before the time when testing for HYPP was common.
I think the older bred halter horses were actually pretty cool. They've bred the good out of them now unfortunately. |
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Location: Oklahoma | I will for sure say that halter bred horses aren't what I was looking for but this mare was a steal in the fact that she is easy to train and very smart. |
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  Champ
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | Halter bred horses usually are a steal once they are 3 or 4 because there's only a few of them good enough to produce the next generation of halter horses and they aren't "wanted" by other disciplines. You could have a gem on your hands. But those of us who try to breed for horses with more chance of making something useful don't seek out halter horse bloodlines. So if you own her, try her. If you don't own her, my best advice is to keep looking.
One more caution. Halter horses often have HYPP and/or PSSM1. That's not something I want to breed on either. That's another reason why I don't look at horses bred that way. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Sure!! Mix a halter horse with something to take it down off those high heels and amazing things pop out... |
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 Miss Laundry Misshap
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| I had a barrel horse that was Impressive bred, as in grandsire. She was Skips Brick on the bottom, which went back to Skipper W and Wimpy, so cattle bred.
She started life as a pleasure horse and I got bored. She was 3D/4D, started barrels at 16 and went until 26.
Depending on what this mare is crossed on, it may work, it may not. Conformation means more than papers.
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Location: TN | My husband had a "halter bred" barrel horse. Made it back to the Finals at the 2005 Old Fort Days Futurity. Horse's name was Somebody Smooth, by Smooth Town. Smooth Town was by Little Town, a racing and halter champion. Smoothie wasn't the fastest, but his turns were awesome. He used that big but to really get around a barrel.
http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/smooth+town
LITTLE TOWN*
ch 1964
QUARTER HORSE
H-31/P-58/SI-100, 65-16-11, $25,061. `76 Open Supreme Champ., `68 Superior Race Perf, `74 Open AQHA Champ, `73 Open ROM Perf, `66 ROM Race Perf |
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| The Key Grip was halter horse bred |
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | I have heard of some nice horses with some halter blood, but I'd be EXTREMELY cautous because 99.99% of the halter studs I've seen look like big sausages with 4 toothpicks for legs. They're so poorly conformed and over muscled that they can hardly move. It's sad really. |
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Elite Veteran
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| Mare in my profile picture did very well in the halter pen, she is from old paint halter/ranch lines. She was a 2D/3D barrel horse and 22/23 second pole horse. Not to mention could do dressage, reining, just about a bit of everything. A lot of the pleasure bred horses can HAUL, but are often very fragile minded. |
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 The Color Specialist
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Location: Washington. (The DRY side.) | teed - 2016-02-19 12:48 PM The Key Grip was halter horse bred
He really wasn't. Sure he had a couple of "halter horses" in his pedigree. But he had race horses pretty close up too. And he was double bred Poco Bueno on the bottom side. FAR CRY from the current "halter horses". LOL |
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 Twin Sister to Queen Boobie
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | I have a grandson of Ima Cool Skip by a granddaughter of Obvious Conclusion/ Conclusion. LOTS of Impressive and Conclusion in his pedigree. He is HYPP negative. He is one of the best balanced horses on the place & extremely athletic and can roll back quicker than anything I have. I've never even started on him on barrels, did get a few Extreme Cowboy Race points on him. He's laid back but then so is my barrel horse, lol.. |
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Location: Oklahoma | I'm typically with others feelings on the halter bred horses. This is racey built. If you didn't know her papers, you wouldn't know that she was halter bred thru and thru. All around is great for me. I'm giving it a shot to learn about these types. |
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