Slices, dices, tells your fortune and can dance!
Jun 20 2007
Many of the knowledgeable horsepeople on the Internet have already observed that the currently trendy “Gypsy Vanner” is actually an $400 spotted cart horse from Europe which is imported and sold to dumb Americans who don’t know any better. And that, like most drafty types, it’s intended use, for which it has been bred for centuries, can be roughly described as “pulling heavy shit.” It is not a “sport horse” unless the sport you’re thinking of is an alfalfa eating contest.
Well, if the original “purebred” Gypsy Vanners weren’t bad enough, now we have the crosses. This critter is a Gypsy Vanner – Missouri Fox Trotter cross. Could it be more fugly?
You know, when I was a snooty suburban high school kid, my mother set two glasses of water in front of me and dared me to taste and tell her which one was the Evian. I bet I could set this colt next to a $75 pinto from the local killer auction, and most people couldn’t pick out which one is the Trendy Eurotrash one and which resulted from Joe Bob’s Appalooser stud gittin out of his pen and visitin’ with Princess Misty, the BLM mare.
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Being British, I come accross a LOT of ‘gypsy cobs’ (inverted commas because we don’t refer to them as a breed, just a type). I love them. They have their fuglies, sure, but they’re great.
I also find the ‘Gypsy Vanner’ thing freaking hilarious. They’re BIG COBS.
Gypsy vanners are the most beautiful horses in the world! You people are seriously BLIND if you dont think so! Just look at these beautiful horses!
http://www.gypsydrumhorses.com/images/Barrett1_Lg.jpg
http://www.gypsymvp.com/horses/warlock/Warlock.jpg
http://www.rawnie.com/images/rawniegidionatu517.jpg
Meh, to each their own. I don’t like a bunch of spots and feather, nor do I like a shoulder made JUST for a plough collar. I like a nice clean legged, good boned, solid colored horse of a real breed. extra points for being registered in an association for purebred horses that goes back more than 80 years. All the gypsy people would SCREAM if they saw the first thing I would do with one…..Break out the clippers and shave off the mud, burr and manure collecting excess hair about the legs, then proceed to clean up the rest of the horse, including the scraggly manes and urine stained tails. But, that is just me. I like me a CLEAN horse.