You started breeding him when???
Sep 11 2009
My long time readers know that I have a few “rules” for stallions, and one of them is that a stallion should have already accomplished something in a competitive discipline before you use him for breeding. This ensures that his foals will have some value and won’t be headed for the $25 bargain bin at the local auction.
So, naturally, when I see a two year old standing at stud, I wonder if he’s even had a chance to do anything other than the wild thing. Thanks to an alert reader, today we can see a breeder who has raised the bar for idiocy even higher – she bred her yearling colt and now, as a two year old, he has foals on the ground!
You all know what’s coming right?…he’s SABINO!
Of course he is.
And what has he done?
Say it with me!
NOTHING!
Side note: Classy halter.
This is not exactly unusual at this farm – it does not appear they own a single horse who has accomplished anything more complicated then reproduction. Here’s one of the mares they have bred to the sabino thing above. Look, I’m the great Karnak, I’m going to predict the foal will have a straight shoulder and be long as a bus!Â
(And did that mare steal her neck from a passing Quarter Horse? The only way I can tell that’s an Arabian is the crappy hip.)
The overall legacy here is pure uselessness. Peruse his pedigree and try to find me a single horse, close up, who is known for something other than its ability to put funky colored foals on the ground. Yet there are twelve mares in foal to this critter for 2010. And we wonder why we have so many low-end Arabians out there!
Just once I want to see a World Champion sabino Arabian or cremello QH. In ANY event. I swear, it’s like a freakin’ miracle to find one that anybody has bothered to green break. After all, when you can sell breedings on color alone, and starting as a yearling, why be responsible?
I guess asking that you care about your breed and not producing crappy horses is too much to ask.
Sad.
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@Leoness1782
The other stuff aside for now, I just looked at your website and since this post is about breeding horses too early – may I ask why you bred WS Vlassic Vu as a 2year old?
Absolutely, WS Vlassic Vu was unfortunately bred several years before we had planned and was an accident. I co-own several of the mares as well as the stallion she was bred to and they reside at the co-owners property. The stallion pen is completely hot wired except for two gates, one that leads to the yard, the other to the pasture where the mares are housed. Both gates have hot wire across the top. Unfortunately these gates must be accessed when delivering round bales to the pasture. Our best guess is that she was bred over the gate after the hot wire was not properly replaced across it. This mare being a very large bodied mare as well as having a very regular cycle despite being in foal, did not appear to be of any concern and was never checked to verify being open. By the time we gained knowledge of her being in foal, it was felt best to monitor her progress and hope for an uneventful foaling. We are VERY grateful and VERY lucky that mare and foal were both very healthy and survived the incident without harm of any kind. This is not a practice condoned by myself and the issues that resulted in our baby having a baby have been effectively resolved.