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RE: RC: Bloodlines
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.
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)
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