RE: Bloodlines

["Corbelletta, Antonio" <Antonio_Corbelletta@affymetrix.com>]

Funny you should mention "unconditioned".  Having done the halter thing too,
I was surprised what they mean by conditioned for halter.  All it means is
that the horse is FAT.  They feed it non stop to get it to put on weight and
then teach them to stand and park and bend the neck.  If you took a
conditioned endurance horse in the ring they would  NEVER place.  They are
too thin.  
Tony 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kathy Mayeda [mailto:Kathy_Mayeda@atce.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 8:31 AM
To: SandyDSA@aol.com; CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com; ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: 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.

-----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) 

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