teddy_
Well-Known Member
Every time I hear the average horse owner saying "I got a mare, so I can breed if it breaks"... I despair. Yes, great idea, breed from something most likely unproven, in a lot of cases of mediocre lineage and unable to stand up to work. I know that's not the case in all horses breaking (i.e., field injuries and much older animals, etc.), but even still .They are well off middle aged women’s dream horses. They are posher than a gypsy cob and more expensive as foreign but essentially they are barbie horses. Shiny black with flowing locks. The reality is they are trickier than they look, there is a lot of crap ones and for every nice one there are 50 that are rubbish. They look nice pulling coffins though….
An acquaintance has a crap one - couldn’t get it to canter. It was quite sharp and went lame a lot so they have …… yep bred a foal from it.