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| Was looking at the rant thread...I'm sure this has been done before but when can you say "oh my horse is so and so bred"?
I usually just say Oh he is racing bred lol
If the horse appears on the papers or within so many generations? |
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Location: Deep South | Apparently the rule for Dash Ta Fame's is -- if DTF can be found ANYwhere on the horses allbreedpedigree.com pedigree, then it's acceptable to say that the horse is DTF bred.
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Location: Oklahoma | I guess if it's your horse, you can say whatever you want. There's no pedigree police around. I think rants on what other people say are ridiculous. You can't control what other people say, but you can control how you react to it, and if you let it bother you, you'll be bothered all the time about something. Some people need to chill out. JMO If I want to advertise my horse as so and so bred, I'm going to do it, and I don't give a flip what other people think about it.  |
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The Advice Guru
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| I say what they are
Direct daughter, maternal granddaughter, granddaughter, great granddaughter.
Diane, I know people can say what they want, but if a horse is advertised as DTF, it wastes my time clicking on the ad to see it is 3 generations back. I do look at the price on these ones, if it is priced low I won't click on the ad, but this still isn't fool proof.
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Who Wants to Trade?
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| Personally, I say what the horse is exactly. Ie: Eyesa Special colt out of a Dashing Val mare.
Many people use the first name they recognize on the papers. It makes buying a pain because I have to sort through a lot of horses I would never even look at otherwise to get to the few I might want. Some sites make this easier than others. I'm a very research oriented buyer though...I always get registered names and pull full records before I do anything else.
Edited by kuhlmann 2014-07-18 1:00 PM
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | I tell people mine is "race bred" and usually if people know anything about bloodlines and ask further into it I say "he's out a of Bully Bullion mare and goes back to Breeze Bar on top (he's a great grandson there)" I know nothing about the Breeze Bar horses, just that he raced so I say "race bred". |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | "Driftwood Bred" |
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Location: Desert Land | I say they are a son of such and such or a grandson of such and such.
And if it's more than 3 generations back then it doesn't matter. |
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| HotbearLVR - 2014-07-18 1:33 PM
"Driftwood Bred"
I guess this brings up a valid point ..... I know this post is a joke but im looking for a driftwood bred mare, am I going to find a young mare or filly with driftwood up close ... not a chance but what I can find is 25% driftwood, and ya I guess id call that "driftwood breed" no hes not close but alot of his blood is in the mare im looking at.
I guess at the end of the day it really dosent matter or bug me what other people call thier horses, I know when I got my first registred horse there was one great sire on the last line of the papers and that excited me, that was as close to greatness as I could afford as a kid and a was SO proud of it. Would have drove some crazy but I was happy :-)
To me sparkle fancy pants bred means its in the pedigree SOME WHERE, where as son/daughter of sparkle fancy pants is direct get. |
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| I only care if they stop the clock! |
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Location: north dakota | I will usually use bred or on the papers for grandget or great grandget. |
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| I usually only look on papers up to grandsires/dams So, I would say you could say it is "so and so bred" from grand get forward... I feel that still has enough influence |
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Location: Northern CA | I use by a son of, and out of a daughter of. That is as far as I go.
Edited by halter_ego 2014-07-20 1:30 AM
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 Not Afraid to Work
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| When people inquire about my horse I just say hes bred for hunt seat lol... yes several generations back you hit top deck, native dancer, otoe, etc but its too far back to consider it a "so and so bred." Ill usually say its "so and so" if its within the first 3 if someone asks. |
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Location: Montana | kuhlmann - 2014-07-18 11:57 AM
Personally, I say what the horse is exactly. Ie: Eyesa Special colt out of a Dashing Val mare.
Many people use the first name they recognize on the papers. It makes buying a pain because I have to sort through a lot of horses I would never even look at otherwise to get to the few I might want. Some sites make this easier than others. I'm a very research oriented buyer though...I always get registered names and pull full records before I do anything else.
Just what I was about to say! Why not be specific and accurate? Generally, I think horses are cowbred, racebred, etc. Horses in their pedigree are in specific locations on that pedigree . . . and it matters.
Some horses are sires of sires, some are broodmare sires . . . specifics matter. And frankly, female families matter more anyway.
I will agree that it seems like Driftwood is an exception.
And I also agree about getting the real records. I will add that you shouldn't look up a mare's production record on AQHA, find no foals and email the owner that she is a liar . . . especially when the ad for her shows her Paint foals . . . . yep, look things up on APHA too! That was a really nice mare that I then refused to sell that guy! ha! |
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