To whoever bred this horse: You need a new hobby
Jun 26 2007
This eight year old gelding’s accomplishments according to his sale ad include being “shown in yearling lounge line” and “getting along well with other pasture horses.”
*sigh*
Where do I even begin? It’s easier to list the parts of him that are ok. He has good length to his neck, and a good throatlatch area. For an Appaloosa, he has a decent tail. Um…and his pasterns have, um, a nice slope. Oh, and his ears are not too big.
And now I think I’m done. Everything else is just awful. He has that FrankenHorse look of different parts from different horses being put together and no balance. His front legs are so far underneath him that my first impression was of a goose. Downhill, straight shoulder, terrible topline, no muscle, hay belly, looks extremely narrow chested, toes out, teeny little pig eyes.
Maybe you could stand him up better and the back legs would look ok, I don’t know. All I know is that someone in Texas needs a new hobby, and breeding ain’t it.
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I kept looking at this horse and trying to think what it reminded me of.
Finally I got it–a goat.
If you have an email address, I have a great one for you.
our goats are better conformed.
HOLY COW!! >>;; I just found your blog yesterday thanks to a friend on MySpace. I was just kinda browsing through your posts, found this and thought that I’d be sick. That’s scary!!
Cool blog btw! : )
Wholly god, that is one of the ugliest “horses” I’ve ever seen.
nasty.
That is one SNAZZY lookin’ okapi/goose/goat/pot-bellied pig!!!
Is this a real photo? I’ve never seen anything like it. You sure it wasn’t Photoshopped?
I’d defy the top showman in the country to stand that up to look decent! Poor brute – I suppose the only possible chance for him is he might have a wonderful temperament because there ARE people out there that wouldn’t recognise him as “a racehorse designed by a committee”. I confess I once – accidentally – bred one nearly that Fugly using a coloured sport horse stallion on a TB x Percheron mare. He got the ugly bits of everything in the mix. AND some health problems too. I put him down to save him from an eventual trip to the meatman and swore never to mix breeds that weren’t close in type ever again. (The mare produced a VERY handsome foal to an ID stallion – similar types!)
No, no. It’s the only horse I’ve ever seen that looks like a duck.
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