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Re: [RC] Mustangs-Interesting thoughts - Sue Singletary

Anyone who made the statement about poor conformation must not know horses.
All horses no matter what breed can have poor conformation.  I can think of
several faults caused from inbreeding certain breeds.  Sue
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From: <Doubledal@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] Mustangs-Interesting thoughts



While I'm sure that not every BLM mustang has perfect conformation, I

believe

that the statement that mustangs are some of the "poorest conformed

horses"

is uninformed and totally false.  While I'm sure that, like every breed

and

type of horse, there are mustangs out there without great comformation, to

say

that the majority have horrible conformation is completely ignorant.  In

my

previous post I described what I saw in the Salt Lake holding facility -

very

nice-looking horses, great movement, and balanced conformation.  From
conversations with other mustang owners, I understand these

characteristics were not

limited to that facility.

Many wild mustangs have to survive in some of the roughest country and and
climate conditions out there.  Due to the laws of natural selection,

horses

without straight legs, tough feet, and bodies built to last don't survive

to pass

on their traits.  What's laughable is that with all of our "careful

breeding

programs" out there, I can say that I've seen a huge number of poorly

conformed

domestic horses in my years of training dressage and endurance horses.

These overgeneralizations about mustangs are irresponsible - I would hate

to

see anyone who was considering adopting a mustang as a sport horse be
dissuaded by these uninformed negative opionions.

Karen

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