Today’s edition of: Just because it’s got spots…
Jul 12 2007
Be very quiet! We have a rare opportunity to get a picture of a Spotted Snow Yak with one of its young. Observe the incredibly long unattractive head and the awful mutton withers, not to mention the classic “nest” on the mare, who does not look as if she could raise her head from that position if her life depended upon it. Wonderful shoulder, too. It’s practically vertical! Bet she’s quite the special mover.
And sure, lots of babies are not born with perfectly straight legs, but the ones that wind up with them are usually over at the knee at first, not waaay back at it as though their knees were double jointed.
But hey, it has spots. Maybe it can be in the circus!
I am not sure if this filly is trying to count up to how many thousands of dollars they are trying to sell her for, or if she is simply being a brat. This little wonder is described as a “Spotted Draft/Sport Horse of Color.” Who came up with that term, the National Association for The Advancement of Colored Horses? Well, as long as we are being p.c., this filly has some, shall we say, challenges. Her neck is about the same width at the top as at the base. Her croup is super short – look how high that tail attaches. She will probably become less downhill over time but her back end does not have the look of an athlete.
Behind the silly faux breed names is allegedly a 1/2 Standardbred, 1/2 Quarter Horse filly (but where the heck did the spots come from?). Also, the alleged Standardbred sire does not come up in the USTA database. I don’t know, is that database incomplete or is this person confused about what exactly they have bred? Sure looks like it could be a Clydesdale/QH which would explain the spots as well as the designation of being a Spotted DRAFT. Hey, breeder lady? Neither Standardbreds nor Quarter Horses are drafts. Do you really not know what it is you bred together, past that “it had spots?” You scare me. A lot.
This picture makes me ask the question “What Would George Morris Do?” I mean, if he survived the aneurysm looking at this picture would bring on.
C’mon folks, if you don’t have a better jumping picture than this, just give up and post a flat shot. He looks like he skidded into the base of the jump, went “oh shit” and snatched up his knees. They are practically tucked all the way under his body. This is pretty scary to look at and makes me think “good thing she is wearing a helmet.”
This isn’t a fugly horse but if this is the best it can do, and they didn’t just select the worst picture ever to try to sell it with, it has a seriously fugly jump!
Yeah, yeah I know, I am picking on spotted horses. But why do spotted horse people just post the worst pictures? Y’all are like Britney going out in public without her panties on. You’re just providing me with an endless sea of content.
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In defense of the jumping photo… um… the background is really pretty. Maybe the jumping style is an attempt to show that off?
The first foal has something I’ve never seen before: a see through leg.
::blink::
transparency: at least you can’t see the bone structure.
and I *know* I’ve gone over a couple jumps like that on green horses. thank god nobody had a camera trained on us!
I just found this blog (from someone on a list saying “isn’t this just awful what she is saying”) and I had to read the whole thing, falling off my chair laughing! You are absolutely right, and i agree with your whole goal here. People are breeding horses that shouldn’t be bred, (grade AND Reg.) and not only are they flooding the market with horses that can’t do the purpose for when they were (supposedly) bred, they are also ruining breeds for ‘fashion.’ I have a champion TWH versatility mare who I have been trying to breed for myself (don’t breed to sell anymore, looking to replace her as my competition horse) and it has taken me 5 years to finally find a TWH stallion whose conformation didn’t make me cringe to look at. Sure, there are plenty of spotted/cremello/buckskin stallions out there whom everyone else is breeding to, but color isn’t even a factor for me. conformation, gait and temperament are my only criteria. Wish me luck getting my 20 yr old girl preggers, since I wouldn’t breed to ewe-necked, slabsided, crooked legged pacey stallion Du Jour.
Shadow Rider – see, that’s the kind of forethought I’d like to see everyone put into breeding before they do it. Sadly, SO not the case!
Wow! That mare and foal are great examples of why slaughter houses are still in business! lol I dont even know where to begin, so I will just not say anything else about them! hehehe
As for the “Spotted Draft” filly… didnt you know they are all the rage? Right up there with Gypsy horses! *Yay* lol She has a very classic drafty look to her. I would say she is probably out of a draft/paint cross mare and who knows what sired her. She is definitely NOT Clydesdale. And, she would not get her markings from a clyde as they are colored by the sabino gene, not tobiano. (which is the gene responsible for this girl’s coloring)
Shadow Rider: It’s always good to hear from people involved with gaited horses that display some intelligent horse husbandry decisions. It’s a rare thing anywhere – but in even shorter supply within the gaited horse industry. The horrors of middle tennessee horse farms should be blogged somewhere…hmmm….
Standardbreds can come in pinto patterns, It’s rare but it happens just like Sabino Arabians, Colored Thoroughbreds and solid Pintabians.
This reminds me of one of my personal favorites…
http://www.equine.com/Horses/ad_details.aspx?lid=460123&search_id=bab2f7f7-9dcb-499d-ab11-b19c851b755c&p=11
that first one has the confirmation of a deer, IMO.
jeez, and their owners think they can sell fugly-confirmationed, young, usually barely touched foals? what about the calm, senior, retired trail or show horses that you could probably get for what the owners are charging for those foals?