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Of course, everyone has different experiences, but my Aladdin granddaughter and her daughter and granddaughter have extremely hard black hooves. One has very big feet, the other two have feet neither too big nor too small for their size. The mare I'm getting ready to start in endurance and CTR has such great feet that my farrier is telling me NOT  to shoe her, even though he is not a barefoot fan! He said she's got the thickest hoof walls he's ever seen on a horse. I ride her all over on gravel roads, 15 or more miles of rocky trail, etc. and her feet are like steel.

 

My stallion is pure polish, WitezII on the bottom, a son of Sambor..he has light colored feet, but they are good and don't chip up, have nice hoof walls and soles. He had a racing career and retired very sound with great feet, legs and back. He's now 22 and very healthy and strong.

 

All these horses have excellent dispositions.

 

I'm not trying to change your mind. Everyone has their likes and dislikes in horses and that's Ok. Difference makes the world go round. I just dont' want people to think that all Aladdinn bred horses have bad hooves or that Polish bred are crazy.

 

chris

Ridecamp Guest <guest-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> I bought from a very noteable breeder in the Seattle area a double Aladinn daughter a number of years ago. IOW she her sire and dam were half brother and sister. I thought this combo would be fantastic for endurance. She was a grey, about 14.1HH max. Very soft hooves, and always had a foot problem, very tenderfooted. She was almost like she was a country pleasure horse gaited. Which doesn't work for endurance. I did not like her temperment. She would rather jump off a cliff than to pass a dandelion on the trail. Hot hot hot, dingy too. She was not personable either like most arabians. She was pure polish too. Light bone. Beautiful head, nice color. I bought her bred to another pure polish stallion Star Guard, and I sold her that way to. The owners told me they
>  had to pull the foal out since it was so big, and then the mare wouldn't nurse the foal. Bay colt. She always hated her foals, wouldn't nurse them.
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> I am not a fan at all of the polish horses. Sorry. Ain't nobody gonna change my mind. I have also had a pure polish *Probat daughter. Tiny. Maybe 13.3 max, very pony sized. Tiny feet. Very little bone. She was sweet though, not tempermental like the other mare above. I bought her as a yearling. She didn't grow, and didn't grow any bone either.
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> I bought a gelding, and he was Bask bred grandson. Mostly polish. This was the last straw. No more polish horses for me. He was down right dangerous. Some of the stunts he pulled . . .
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> Not a polish fan, and I ain't gonna change. Original poster asked on Aladinn bred experiences, and that is my experience. The two mares I had were from the finest imported polish stock in the usa.
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> I prefer, crabbet, egyptian, spanish, NOT polish. I haven't had a russian, so I don't know.
>  But have heard good things, and SEEN really good things.
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> JMHO, and experience,
> Laura T
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