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Location: Iowa | I am at that point in my life where I am ready to tackle a prospect! I have been casually looking and came across this one, I wanted to ask for some opinions since I have never bought based on breeding before. I am leaning towards a paint because my family shows halter and pleasure paints in breed shows so if I ever want to ride and haul with my family again I would have to get a paint. Plus I have seen some impressive paint barrel horses out there lately!
2015 Solid Sorrel APHA Filly (Pistol Annie) by Dallas Alley (Raise A Jet x Jazzed N Jeweled) and Walkers AliveNDashin (Perks Alive x Texas Heiress)
She isn’t broke at this moment but has a very calm temperament. I am a little concerned about all the run in her breeding. She has a ton of Dash for Cash, Easy Jet Too and Bugs Alive in 75, think that will be okay?
I would upload pictures but I do not know how :) Thanks in advance everyone! |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Every individual is different. Have you met her yet? And they can be even more different when you go to riding them. It's really important to pick the right trainer.
That said, we have some pretty nice ones that are straight running bred and most of them have awesome minds. There are dinks in every type of breeding. You just have to do the best you can to avoid it. And I think the vast majority are usually trainable. If you had a link to an ad or something, people could give you more honest opinions.
Also, is she on allbreedpedigree? |
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Location: Iowa | oija - 2017-04-11 8:41 AM Every individual is different. Have you met her yet? And they can be even more different when you go to riding them. It's really important to pick the right trainer. That said, we have some pretty nice ones that are straight running bred and most of them have awesome minds. There are dinks in every type of breeding. You just have to do the best you can to avoid it. And I think the vast majority are usually trainable. If you had a link to an ad or something, people could give you more honest opinions. Also, is she on allbreedpedigree?
Thank you for your opinion! I have met her, very sweet and calm! She is not listed online. I have just know the breeder and she has shown me a couple of her young ones that she has available. I was just unsure of how much run is too much run in the breeding?
I have picked out my trainer for my prospect already so that task is competed. I have never bought an unstarted horse before so I am trying to see it from all aspects before I dive in and purchase. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | I will say we breed our own prospects and sell some as well. The only animals on our place not bred by us or extended family are the broodies and that's because we bring in top quality bloodlines to improve our own lines. We have a couple with more foundation/cow lines back a ways. We even have a couple paints. The great majority of ours are running bred though.
They have all pretty much made good minded using horses that can do performance events too. One advantage of having a younger animal is it's easy to know everything that's happened to them, like vet care and such, and you have better control over selecting the right trainers and such then buying one older and guessing at their background or possible injuries that can wind up causing problems later.
That being said, there is much more of a sit around and wait game on a prospect and they just may not end up making the prospect you want. It's a gamble. If you buy one already competing, at least you know what they can be.
Personally I love the journey of anticipation from weanling to prospect to performance animal but it can be excruciating sometimes, especially if and when you run into problems. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | A lot of run in a pedigree means nothing more then that horse should be able to run. I always liked the saying you can ask a fast horse to slow down, but can't make a slow horse run. We ranch in rough country on 100% race bred horses. Our stud was out of AAA parents and most of our mares were raced as well. Right now we use a gelding by our late stallion and out of a Takin On The Cash/Go Flight daugther to do all the ranch work. He is amazingly cowy as all have been by that stallion/and our race bred mares.
My point is not to think a horse is hot just because he was bred to run a straight line. The majority of the top barrel sires in the country are bred for the track. I started cow horses for some of the nicest stallion farms in north TX and let me tell you about HOT. Got pretty tired of watching the trainers lope circles for an hour just so they would concentrate to work a cow in an arena...and then get out run by a fat heifer taking her down the fence. We came back home to WY and bought all race bred stock to ride. |
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Location: Kansas | I say go for it, I like that mare lisa has |
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Location: Pittsburg, Texas 75686 | You cannot go wrong with Bugs Alive N 75 or Easy Jet/Jet Deck. |
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Location: Iowa | I really like that saying "can make a fast horse slow down but cannot make slow horse fast"! Thanks everyone for the advice. I will go for it! I was just a littler nervous since I have never bought a prospect before. Lisa is super nice and she has been great to work with! |
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Location: LA Lower Alabama | Rausch_Jessica - 2017-04-11 10:54 AM I really like that saying "can make a fast horse slow down but cannot make slow horse fast"! Thanks everyone for the advice. I will go for it! I was just a littler nervous since I have never bought a prospect before. Lisa is super nice and she has been great to work with!
Don't be nervous. This is why you pick a good trainer. They will be straight up if they feel like it isn't going to work out.
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