Re: RC: Fwd: RC: Backyard stallions

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/8/00 8:03:56 AM Pacific Daylight Time, SandyDSA@aol.com 
writes:

<<   > We look for outstanding Pedigree, incredible disposition, floating and 
 free movement, stunning beauty, flawless conformation,
  history, Showing record, 

 and so WHY would show record prove anything, I have always wondered.  >>

Gotta comment here.  First, I have yet to find a horse with flawless 
conformation.  Better than average conformation is certainly desirable, but 
when folks boast about "flawless" conformation, I run like heck, because they 
obviously aren't looking at the beast in front of them!

Second, in this day and age, I almost run from a show record, too.  For what 
I want, there is no earthly reason to want a horse that has been pinned in 
halter classes that reward long backs, long cannons, skinny necks set on in 
such a way as to make the whole horse hold himself upside down, etc.  Nor is 
there any reason to want a horse that flails around the ring like a crippled 
windmill, or that can tuck his nose to his chest and drag his hind end along 
as if it were a poor relative in the next county.  Nope, you can keep your 
show records--unless they are earned in non-mainstream disciplines such as 
dressage, cutting, reining, etc. where athleticism still has some meaning.  

But, as Charlotte said--whatever turns you on.  If you want those sorts of 
horses, that is your perogative, and it's a free country.  No, the site you 
offered didn't turn me on, either--but as others have said, the photography 
was so poor that other than questioning the web site owner's camera skills, 
one really can't say much.  

And, ditto what Sandy said--with those photo skills, the odds of these 
stallions populating the earth is pretty low...

Heidi