Prominent veins, a sign of good breeding?

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Not talking about after strenuous work. Talking about veins in general. Someone who shows and saw Oliver a couple of days ago kept raving (in a high pitched tone) about how fine skinned he is as his veins show on his hocks, upper legs towards his botty, face and forelegs. She said it was a sign of "refinement" and judges love it.

Surely that's utter rubbish? I was thinking the veins that run on the inside of his hocks that are very prominent are icky...much in the same way that I feel about the way Angelina Jolie arms have huge buggy veins on them.
 
lol, I always looked at the badders horses and wanted a horse whose veins stuck out, now I have one and he's the biggest wuss ever invented..I think they are just a sign of a tb type horse/pony?
 
Don't reckon Ollie has any TB in him....well if he does, don't tell Hannah!
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It's strange isn't it, how people rave about something which resembles a bad case of all over varicose veins (as Spaniel put it on another forum). Poor ponies.
 
I would have thought it was to do with them having thin/fine skin - TB types usually get it most or WB's. You don't see many native ponies with veins popping but then not so many of them are kept that fit.
 
i am totally confused?? are we saying that a vein on the insdie of the hock extendong down the cannon bone is bad? dont all horses have that? thats like saying someone who has veins in their hands bad surely hehe? somebody enlighten me!
 
veins are a sign of good blood! lol
its ment to show that your horse has tb breeding or is well bred in another kind?)

(either that or the horse is very angry all the time lol - imagine veins poppin out of a persons head when they are extremely angry!!! lol)
 
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i am totally confused?? are we saying that a vein on the insdie of the hock extendong down the cannon bone is bad? dont all horses have that? thats like saying someone who has veins in their hands bad surely hehe? somebody enlighten me!

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Noooo not saying that at all. Ollie is the only one of mine who has that vein on the inside of the hock extremely obvious. He has other veins that are noticeable all the time too, unlike any of my others.

I was just stunned at my friend who commented, well raved, that it was a sign of good breeding. I'd not heard that before. She said it meant he had thin skin...which again she said was a good thing.

Seems there is some truth in it, according to others. Not sure if it's factual truth or an old wives tale type of truth though.
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I thought fine-skinned and fit horses had bulgier veins than less fine-skinned and less fit horses, much as muscular/athletic people are veinier on the arms than others...
Had no idea it was a sign of 'refinement'
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I bet PF's are like great writhing boa constrictors then!!!
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All it means is that there is probably some thoroughbred in there as they can be quite 'veiny'.

But you get rubbish thoroughbreds as well as good ones, so to say that it's automatically a good sign/good breeding is pretty stupid.
 
Not sure stupid is the right term to use, but I certainly get the emotion.

As I said on the thread earlier, I would guess it's an old wives tale and not actual fact.
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