RE: RC: Bloodlines

["Kathy Mayeda" <Kathy_Mayeda@atce.com>]

Point taken!   But I was first a little bit in the halter world where the "pretty heads

and hooky necks" meant "type."  Didn't stay there too long.

 

Also, the halter ring showing techniques leave much to be desired in showing

an Arabian's saddle horse potential.  When I visit my ex - he loves nothing better

to turn out his unconditioned show mare and have me watch her bounce around

like a bunny rabbit in the arena.  He thinks she's cool, but it makes me want to puke. 

I bet if this mare had proper endurance conditioning, she would function as well as any horse

under saddle instead of flouncing around.

 

K.

-----Original Message-----
From: SandyDSA@aol.com [mailto:SandyDSA@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 8:11 AM
To: CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com; Kathy Mayeda; ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: Re: RC: Bloodlines

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)