This message is from: "Warren Stockwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have a gelding who would have made a great stallion temperamentally but as a physical specimen not so hot. We Gelded him and he is the greatest and most playful is great with my kids ( 7,8,& 9) everyone loves him. but he wouldn't place in a conformation class but in a western pleasure, or a game their is hope. Great horse wouldn't trade him for the world but glad I made the right choice to geld. I have dogs and a great stud some of the girls who come for a date are not good prospects for him and I tell the owners that and we discuss why. When you breed you have to take into the equation the faults of both the mare and the stud, know what your stud can do to clean up the mare's faults without adding the stallions. It's a gamble every time but with some good education and knowing what your stock throws you can get some good breeding. I am glad that your potato has the ability to throw some good stuff but if you look at her as a potato and never tried no body would have ever known what else she has to offer the fjord community. Fjordchick ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com> Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 4:26 PM Subject: the perfect horse > This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Well, I think I finally have to speak up on this. > I try hard to breed an exceptional fjord horse, and have searched far > and wide to build my broodmare band with the very best individuals available. > > In addition to my top-notch mares, I also have a small, dumpy mare > named Grete that is built much like a potato with legs. She is a bit crooked > in the front legs, long-bodied and short-legged. She is by far my best > driving mare, and the most fun horse on the farm. She goes anywhere without > a look or a question, with great enthusiasm. She is safe for anyone to > drive, and has been a very patient school-horse at the driving clinics that > we have held here. She is, in my book, just as close to perfect as any of > the others --- although in a very different way. > Just as a point of interest, this same dumpy potato-mare has produced > 7 foals, and three of them have been evaluated -- two have a blue ribbon in > conformation from the NFHR evaluations, and a third has her first premium > under the Dutch system! She may not look like the "perfect horse," but you > would be hard-pressed to find a more versatile, better-producing, safer, > kinder mare anywhere, who is perfectly sound and produces beautiful, > versatile babies. What more could anyone want from a horse? > Jan
