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Location: North of where I want to be | I was wondering if any of you folks who have OTTB experience can tell me about your experiences with the Storm Cat lines.
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | They have been discussed on here and it sounds like soundness issues and bad dispositions are pretty common with them. I have never had one, but as a sire, he was sure one bad a. |
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| From a veterinary medicine standpoint, a lot of them tend to require more drugs to sedate and keep sedated than most other TB lines. |
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| Fillies with his line tend to be somewhat naughty and have an attitude. Geldings tend to be on the dominant side, but not quite as fractious as the fillies. Storm Cat lines are just about as common as Seattle slew...there are a lot out there! =] |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Have a grand-daughter now. She's by Storm Day. We are using her as a race broodmare with quarter horses. She's pretty gentle and follows me everywhere. I was told she was injected a lot and abused, so not sure if that is what I notice about her orrrrrr, but, she is a little timid. We don't ride her, so I can't comment on soundness, but she seems to be sound running around pregnant. Not sure I'd try to make a barrel horse of her. She loves treats lol. Hope this helps :)
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | My good friend has one we keep our horses together, he is full of personality but hates being ridden unless it’s a child. He sold for half a million at the keenland sale and wouldn’t run, they tried to beat him into submission so now he more or less has the retired life. He is absolutely gorgeous also! Long flowing mane, thick as a bulldog, looks like a cowhorse. |
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| Personal experience makes me agree with most all comments on this thread. I dealt with many of them in collage - now I walk away. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | We have one. He's a nutcase. Lots of physical issues. I think they can run down a track pretty good but I would stay away from them for most daily riding stuff. |
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| KRJ1791 - 2017-12-11 9:12 AM I was wondering if any of you folks who have OTTB experience can tell me about your experiences with the Storm Cat lines. There's a local girl that started one and it clocks in the 1D & 2D consistently. I have a Storm Cat mare and she is very talented and has taken to the pattern easily and in about 5 runs was moving into the 4D without even knowing it was a speed event yet. I was excited for our future but it's taken me some time to figure out that her and NSAIDs don't mix - she keeps getting ulcers and it takes months to get her back. She is powerful, has a personality but is kind. Otherwise she has been super sound. She has Storm Cat on the sire side and foundation cow on the bottom. But I always thought she got her scrappiness from her mother. She's about 80% the mother who is quite feisty and queen bee of the herd. The sire is Timber Legend who is as mellow as they come.
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| I had a Grandson of Storm Cat, he is gorgeous and built right. He has a short back and long underline and stayed collected naturally. That said, I ended up giving him away to someone that would be better suited for him. He literally would just jump right out from under me. He was way to athletic for me. I'm older and heavier and just couldn't ride him. The young lady I gave him too, lives close so I get to see him and she has him going really good. I just wanted to see what he is capable of doing and knew I couldn't take him there. |
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| I love my gd of Storm Cat but the above comments were correct in my case....more meds to sedate, attitude!, but athletic like crazy. |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | They tend to be fractious. Had a race mare that was a granddaughter....wowzers. Things needed to be done her way. |
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| i have a storm cat g-daughter. i refer to her as spaz or have warned people she is delicate minded.
BUT she gives you 150%. if you are quiet around her & learn to know her trigger points. your fine with her- light hands
hubby loves her- you can work her hard at barrels for 2 hours then has taken her out back to english pen & jumped a full 12 fences 2 ft high with her & she didnt miss a beat.
She is great around our young grandkids on the ground- BUT i would never let them on her.As i dont even like riding hermost days,
she is very willing with hubby. loped her 1st pattern & won the 3d as a joke. (i signed hubby up in senior class for his 50th birthday when he just came to hang out with her)
just like all breeds-- good & bad. but she does seem to have the storm cat family trait |
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Location: Texas | KRJ1791 - 2017-12-11 11:12 AM I was wondering if any of you folks who have OTTB experience can tell me about your experiences with the Storm Cat lines.
Storm Cat was not known for his loving personality or his soundness. SC get are not known for their soundness either.
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Location: South | I have one- mine is a Grand-daughter of Storm in a Half by Storm Cat. She is quick as a cat, took to barrels almost immediately. However, she is the type that you have to make the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard. She is very hardhead in the sense that she knows everything lol similar to a teenager. So Barrels is not something she wants to do everyday- show her what you need to correct and go do something else. She finished clocking this year season in the 2D as a 4 year old just learning to run, I would purchase another one with the knowledge that they are quirky. She also runs in a Hackamore and requires soft hands, and a quiet rider is a must.
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