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Location: West Tennessee | Nevertooold - 2016-06-06 7:50 PM Just to set something straight...Tanya Randall is the queen of barrel horse research and knows everything about pedigrees and she deserves an apology.
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| I agree with SG and NTO. Tanya knows her stuff and pours her heart into what she writes. She also goes above and beyond in researching. She is owed an apology. |
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Pretty much every really successful horse I have ever had has been "downhill". Those who are making it sound like an undesirable trait that needs to be "bred out" are being silly, and quite frankly sound a bit novice to me, truth be told. As far as the cutters go, I have a tad bit of experience with those too. My first two barrel horses were own get of Dry Doc and out of a Poco Tivio mare, can't get more cow bred than that. I won quite a bit on them over the years I had them and would take another one any day.
I have two pretty amazing horses in my pasture right now that just happen to be downhill. So to the OP... Take it from someone who has plenty of experience with downhill horses, it has no effect at all on ability, soundness, mind, trainability or anything else for that matter. Just sayin'.
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| I have never seen her in person so I am asking simply out of curiosity. Does Bling (Fame Fling and Bling) seem to run a bit 'downhill'? |
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Location: SE Missouri | I've only rode two downhill built horses and they were simply freaks. Amazing horses. Mine now is slightly built down hill and he holds his own. Not my preferred confirmation but holy cow the ones I know have been really successful. One was genuine Doc son X MissNCash daughter, the other was JOH X old running bred. The last is DHD X EJ. So I sure can't blame it on cow horse vrs running bred... |
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Location: Kansas | BARRELHORSE USA - 2016-05-29 12:43 AM Don't buy or breed a horse with cutter bloodlines for a barrel horse ... downhill withers with butt up in the air and low tail set is their specialty bred characteristics to squat the rear end and sweep with the front end ... which gives them lateral movement too but no running speed .. totally different conformation than a speed event horse ... I consider downhill a bad conformation fault for long term soundness ... since a horse with a good conformation is uniform across his topline supports 60% of his own weight with the frontend and much more with a rider and even more when he is faulted by being downhill too ... For some reason people think crossing a Volkswagen with a corvette is going to get them a horse that rides like a high powered tricycle ... lol
were you hit in the head as a child? Or do you just like to spew random crap out that generally ticks people off? |
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Location: Mountains of VA | Here's something to think about...........Why are most of the top stallions from the top breeding programs stood UPHILL to level their toplines for their pictures?
It drives me nuts..........I want to be able to see the true conformation on any horse in a promotional picture. My 2 cent.
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Location: La Vernia, TX | hotpaints - 2016-06-09 9:40 PM
Here's something to think about...........Why are most of the top stallions from the top breeding programs stood UPHILL to level their toplines for their pictures?
It drives me nuts..........I want to be able to see the true conformation on any horse in a promotional picture. My 2 cent.
You mean like these guys? ??
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| Phoenix98 - 2016-06-15 11:08 PM
hotpaints - 2016-06-09 9:40 PM
Here's something to think about...........Why are most of the top stallions from the top breeding programs stood UPHILL to level their toplines for their pictures?
It drives me nuts..........I want to be able to see the true conformation on any horse in a promotional picture. My 2 cent.
You mean like these guys? ??
oh ya know, just a couple of THE MOST sought after studs in the QH industry .... LMAO! Obviously horrid animals  |
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| hoofs_in_motion - 2016-06-09 11:52 AM
BARRELHORSE USA - 2016-05-29 12:43 AM Don't buy or breed a horse with cutter bloodlines for a barrel horse ... downhill withers with butt up in the air and low tail set is their specialty bred characteristics to squat the rear end and sweep with the front end ... which gives them lateral movement too but no running speed .. totally different conformation than a speed event horse ... I consider downhill a bad conformation fault for long term soundness ... since a horse with a good conformation is uniform across his topline supports 60% of his own weight with the frontend and much more with a rider and even more when he is faulted by being downhill too ... For some reason people think crossing a Volkswagen with a corvette is going to get them a horse that rides like a high powered tricycle ... lol
were you hit in the head as a child? Or do you just like to spew random crap out that generally ticks people off?
To insinuate that cutting bred horses are Volkswagen's .... yep, hit on the head for sure!! |
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