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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I know most are commenting on this thread about the risk of HYPP, my experiences had nothing to do with the disease it was the disposition and work ethic. These were grandsons/granddaughters that we rode some great grandkids as well.
But to the OP if the horse is already riding and what you want for the kiddo, I would just run a 5 panel test on her and go from there. Especially if the Impressive is back a ways. |
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Location: Southwest Minnesota | Just sold a little mare who was Impressive bred. She was a sweetheart, loved attention and is going to be nice little horse for the 14 year old girl that is getting her first horse. She was a Western Pleasure horse that had absolutely NO desire to go any faster than her little pitter-patter WP gaits. As long as the horse is N/N I would say go for it! |
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 Northern Chocolate Queen
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Location: ND | If the horse is N/N and fits your son I'd buy him in a heartbeat. My good gelding traces back to Impressive & he's seriously the the best horse I own. He can show in every english & western class competatively at the local level, he can run all the speed events, team rope, do ranch work & pony colts, and currently he's an outstanding mounted shooting horse. He's got the most incredible mind and is so quiet. At the shoots I can go in the arena make a 1D run on him, he walkes out quiet as can be & will then walk off with a kid on his back. Or he'll make a run with me, then go back into the arena & make a slow collected run for my mom who has just started shooting. He's priceless to me!
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Duct Tape Bikini Girl
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| Have nothing against the bloodline. It is not that I would not want to buy one, but from experience, I will say they are almost impossible to sell. People don't seem to care if they are NN. They see the bloodline and run. When I buy, I want a horse I can sell. |
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Location: SW North Dakota | I had one that went back to him and he was a good looking son of a gun. He was very spooky and hard to work with (borderline dangerous in the beginning) but I blame that on the person that I bought him from. I think he was abused before I got him. He was very smart and really caught on to things fast. And holy crap was he fast and athletic. I wish I would have sent him to a trainer instead of trying to do it myself and getting myself hurt. :/ He would have been good. This is a picture of him the spring of his 4 yr old summer.
eta: Yes, I would definitely buy another one!
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Impressive!!
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Location: Idaho | Nope. No risk at N/N. I would NOT buy a N/H or H/N horse... but my best, favorite broodmare we got is an own grandaughter of Impressive on her top side. This mare is thick, great hip, great bone, fabulous feet and a kind eye. She has raised 3 colts for us, 2 of which I am riding and honestly, she is fabulous and so are her babies. She is of course N/N and we are breeding her back to DAF this spring. I think if they are crossed correctly, you can have a really athletic, nice horse on your hands. Impressive is line bred Three Bars, I think he is a nice looking horse. This mares bottom side is out of an own daughter of world champ running horse, The Haymaker (by Depth Charge). This mare is old school running bred and I love her! She crosses great on todays leading sires. |
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Location: Juntura, Oregon | If she is a good fit for your son I would buy her no problem!
We have had 2 horses that went to Impressive. One gelding that was really cute and was a good horse for the start that he had. We also just sold a broodmare that went to Impressive. She was a really nice mare, gentle, easy to get along with, had a lot of try, was good looking and had a really good looking colt. Impressive horses are just harder to sell than others so that's why we got rid of her rather than breed her again. I'm not scared of Impressive horses but others are so when you are in the business of selling horses they are just too hard to get your money back on.
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Location: /ARKANSAS | Nothing to worry about dna wise. get the horse tested, actually the horse should already be tested if papered. I have had a couple that I love!!! They were both N/N |
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 Balance Beam and more...
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Location: 31 lengths farms | My bay mare was Impressive bred I believe hers was 3 generations back...She was a handful when I got her, blown up cutting futurity reject, took me 8 months to get her to run away FORWARD!!! But, once she came round she was a heck of a horse. Tough physically and mentally, how they blew her up I have no idea, must have been ugly. She was the kind of horse that I literally used on Saturday to gather cows in the rocks and ravines, an all day adventure and then Sunday won high point at a gymkhana running 6 events in the heat both days. She had no quit. Fractured her hock as a 12 year old. She was non weight bearing the first day with no swelling, then the next day it was the size of a small basketball and she was running and trotting the pasture on it. Thankfully took her in due to the swelling, x-ray showed the fracture. Did some therapy on it, gave her 4 months in a smaller pen and kicked her out for another 6 then re-xrayed and started fitting her back up. Had to switch her left barrel first but she actually came back tougher than even before. Ran well into her 20's. Also found she was N/H about the time she fractured her hock as I was thinking about breeding her if she didnt' come back strong. Never had an episode, never got a special diet, other than getting worked hard and fed good clean hay. I'd take 12 of them just like her. |
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Location: Oregon | I LOVE mine - sweetest boy ever. He's N/N.
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Location: North Texas | No. I know I am most likely going against the grain on this thread. But Oh Well, That is the Way I roll! hehehhehehe
I am not going to propagate a Bloodline that has genetic problems to begin with and then add in the FACT that Impressive's feet were a size O or OO for a 1200 lb animal. Ain't no way no how I will propagating something like that in My Band of Horses or on My Place. |
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 The best bad guy on the internet
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Location: Arizona | My mare in my Avatar is Impressive bred. Best horse I have ever owned!! |
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The Advice Guru
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| foundation horse - 2014-03-28 1:56 PM
No. I know I am most likely going against the grain on this thread. But Oh Well, That is the Way I roll! hehehhehehe
I am not going to propagate a Bloodline that has genetic problems to begin with and then add in the FACT that Impressive's feet were a size O or OO for a 1200 lb animal. Ain't no way no how I will propagating something like that in My Band of Horses or on My Place.
Question could his size of feet be due to poor shoeing. In current time, I have seen many horses in too small of a shoe, and I have had farriers do the same to my horses. |
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Northern Chocolate Queen
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Location: ND | cheryl makofka - 2014-03-28 1:36 PM foundation horse - 2014-03-28 1:56 PM No. I know I am most likely going against the grain on this thread. But Oh Well, That is the Way I roll! hehehhehehe I am not going to propagate a Bloodline that has genetic problems to begin with and then add in the FACT that Impressive's feet were a size O or OO for a 1200 lb animal. Ain't no way no how I will propagating something like that in My Band of Horses or on My Place. Question could his size of feet be due to poor shoeing. In current time, I have seen many horses in too small of a shoe, and I have had farriers do the same to my horses.
YEP I've seen so many show horses crammed into tiny shoes creating a long narrow ugly hoof. My horse above has never been shod but his feet are BIG and healthy. |
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Location: Beggs, OK | This guy wears a size 2 shoe.
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Location: OREGON | I have owned 2 and would own another in a heartbeat.  |
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Location: North Texas | cheryl makofka - 2014-03-28 2:36 PM
foundation horse - 2014-03-28 1:56 PM
No. I know I am most likely going against the grain on this thread. But Oh Well, That is the Way I roll! hehehhehehe
I am not going to propagate a Bloodline that has genetic problems to begin with and then add in the FACT that Impressive's feet were a size O or OO for a 1200 lb animal. Ain't no way no how I will propagating something like that in My Band of Horses or on My Place.
Question could his size of feet be due to poor shoeing. In current time, I have seen many horses in too small of a shoe, and I have had farriers do the same to my horses.
Perhaps you are correct that corrective shoeing would have helped. However genetics are genetics and Impressive was originally bred for The Track and had an extremely small foot for a 1200# horse. He couldn't run, he shore did look good in a halter w/ them small feet. |
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Location: Probably On the Road to the Next Barrel Race! | Thank y'all for the "Impressive" info! Turns out mare didn't fit my son, but my good barrel mare is also Impressive, and ths has been very encouraging :) |
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Location: Somewhere no one wants to be | I had one and on her papers it said she was hypp n/n and yes I would buy another one. |
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Fire Ant Peddler
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| I have a friend who won the AQHA World Show in Sr Barrels on a son of Perksmaster. He has Impressive on the bottom which surprised me but that boy is bad to the bone. |
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