Re: RC: Bloodlines

[SandyDSA@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/24/01 10:32:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com writes:


> How can they NOT come in the same package?  True Arabian "type" includes 
> basically correct riding conformation, as the Arabian was and is still 
> supposed to be a riding horse.  This has been lost along the wayside 
> somewhere in some mythical sort of "type" that has come to mean "pretty 
> heads and hooky necks."  You should be able to look at a functional Arabian 
> body and say, "Hey, THAT is an ARABIAN!"  And that is what type is all 
> about.  As for beauty--how some of these caricatures today can be 
> considered beautiful is beyond me.  It is almost painful to watch many of 
> them move, and they look like a discombobulated combination of unrelated 
> parts.  Well conformed horses, on the other hand, are downright beautiful, 
> and a joy to watch in motion.  There is simply no way you can SEPARATE 
> type, correctness, and beauty--you can't have one without the others.


Hey, the English language CAN explain something succinctly! Way to go , Heidi!
San( who breeds for type, beauty and ability)