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Heidi said:

> Again, that's why generalizations about ANY breed are silly.
Actually, if a breed doesn't share some traits that can be "generalized"
then it isn't much of a "breed."

The WHOLE idea of having a breed is to have horses that are more alike
than different from each other.

That's why breeds have "standards."

To NOT make generalizations about a breed is silly.

However, to not understand that some individuals lie outside the
standard is also silly.

kat
Orange County, Calif.
:)

p.s.  The arabian breed has for over a century had a reputation for
stumbling.  If somebody wants me to hunt down the reference I will;
however, a late 19th century british cavalry colonel (who was a
proponent of arabains as cavalry mounts, BTW) noted that yes it was true
that Arabians showed a tendency to trip rather more that other breeds of
horse, but he went on to say that few of them ever fell when they
tripped and their other positive traits (that he also generalized about)
made it okay as far as he was concerned to just let them trip along.



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