The best part of the whole Dolly thing is the video and the captions that scroll underneath it. “She neck reins, direct reins, respons to leg and voice commands”
Really?! Ive never ridden a horse that does this EVER.
I think the seller needs a lesson in horse marketing/website design/life.
So did I, but not for long. Just the two videos I watched were nearly more than I could bear:
In this one, all I could think about were the dangers posed by the fencing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DIV4xwlo2I
And this one, around the 2:00 minute mark when her 9-yr-old daughter climbs aboard that stallion and rides around (but hey, at least she has a helmet on, but fat lot of good that will do her when she winds up dangling from a foot through the stirrup):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX2y8mnu95c
:no:
I knew a very nice Araby thing that was taught to lie down so that his owner who had suffered from a stroke could climb on from the ground. This was extremely important (obviously) and the horse did as asked any time, any place.
When people say they must show a profit on one horse, I assume they are running their barn as a business and have lost money for 6 years and now must get into the black for tax purposes. Good luck with that in general. And good luck trying to get one magic horse to bail you out.
Well, now I’m confused, Liberty. When I saw the daughter climb on in the vid you posted the text said “The only 3 year old stallion I’d ever let my daughter on”. How old was he when he won the “World Championship” in jumping? I realize from the vids that they are pretty much speed bumps, but now I’m curious how old he was when they spent a year getting him jumping and then winning that class.
Oh well.
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Well, now I’m confused, Liberty. When I saw the daughter climb on in the vid you posted the text said “The only 3 year old stallion I’d ever let my daughter on”. How old was he when he won the “World Championship” in jumping? I realize from the vids that they are pretty much speed bumps, but now I’m curious how old he was when they spent a year getting him jumping and then winning that class.
Oh well.[/QUOTE]
I’m pretty sure I saw in one of the jumping videos that the stallion was 4 when he won the “world championship” in jumping. So yeah, sounds like they started him jumping at 3 years old. No telling how young he was when they first backed him and got him going under saddle. Idiots.
Well, that’s not too bad then.
One more question to those who know about this particular breed. One video also mentioned that this particular cross is no longer registerable? Did I read that right? So, would his offspring be registerable in anyway?
I think it said that you can no longer double register with the TWHBEA & the Missouri Foxtrotter registry?
Well, I am not sure he has to make a profit. Maybe a caseload of peeps would do it?
Hang on a minute now! That is absolutely possible. I have one on my farm that is trimmed about 2x a year max. When she’s in full work, the trimming is literally almost never. She grows and wears very evenly, she moves around a lot, and she’s on a variety of terrain that wears. The most I ever do is occasionally run a rasp around the edge to make a bevel and that’s about it.
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“worth her weight in gold” huh?
I think the seller is taking this statement literally. A 1200lb horse is about 545 kgs. With gold going roughly around $1,180/kg that makes this horse worth about $64,000 at a gold price per kilo. I suppose the 11K extra is for the seller’s account, to show them a profit.[/QUOTE]
Ah, not to nitpick, but gold is running $1180 per oz, not kg.
1200 lbs * 16 oz per lb * $1180 per oz = $22,656,000.00 - so at only $75,000 for a horse “worth her weight in gold” this mare’s a steal!
Darn! I had a TB mare who would like down in the ring, too. She didn’t even need a ‘touch of the whip’ to her leg. She just did it when the inspiration came over her or anyone tried to ride her before breakfast…
Geez I know a 30 year old mare that will lay down WITHOUT EVEN BEING ASKED TO!! Can you imagine how much she’s worth? You wouldn’t believe it! She’ll lay down, without a command, all by herself in the field! Who knew she was worth so much!!?
Doesn’t floridafoxhunter have one that will lie down on command? I do believe hers has spots!
I’m teaching my 17.1hh 3 y.o. to park out for me to mount (he loves it - thinks he’s so smart ;)). How much to you think that will add to his value?
I wonder how much her horses that you can ride standing in the saddle, or vault on to from behind, are ?
" Well, La De Da " … was my first thought!
Thanks gieriscm, I thought I looked at that right but obviously not. I guess I better do some more research before I start buying gold stock, or any stock for that matter.
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Ah, not to nitpick, but gold is running $1180 per oz, not kg.
1200 lbs * 16 oz per lb * $1180 per oz = $22,656,000.00 - so at only $75,000 for a horse “worth her weight in gold” this mare’s a steal![/QUOTE]
I dunno, it seems like more than barn blindness she suffers from a malady a lot of breeders do–not wanting to let her horses go. So Dolly is $75k because even though she needs to sell her, she doesn’t want to. Same with the $100k Ms. T. And the $15,000 foal I saw on her website is because she’d probably love to sell him…but also would kind of like another stallion… I think I saw a few horses on her site that are priced fairly reasonably (but I do agree with you all the the design is pretty bad and I don’t want to go back and check). Maybe the high side of reasonable, but it sounds like she sells a few.
I’ve worked for a breeder who did that all the time–she really needed to sell some horses, but she’d like one so much she’d name some ridiculous price and flat out tell me she was doing it because she didn’t think anyone would pay that much. I’ve seen other breeders do it too. They don’t really expect them to sell for that price, hell, they might even be disappointed if they did.
A little off topic but I saw the black/white pinto leo jump around at st christophers! It certainly did not win like the caption on the photo says but it did get around the course in the non tb hunters which was a solid 3ft. It was kind of fun to watch but it was definitely not turned out for a AA show. I just assumed it was someone local who just wanted to show at the quentin show grounds (It is one of my favorite places to show) but now it seems like they came all the way from Texas?
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I wonder how much her horses that you can ride standing in the saddle, or vault on to from behind, are ?[/QUOTE]
And what is it with people standing on the saddle to prove something, anyhow? Heck, The Cowboy stood on my wild child’s saddle when he was desensitizing her and she stood there puzzled. Ya know, up until this summer she had a perfect record for unloading every person that rode her sooner or later–she’s not a bronc type, but reactive with a big ole bucking fit on top of some of her spooks, and since she might go quite a while without such explosive antics they can take a person by surprise. 
And yet, a brave soul on a good day can sure nuff stand on her saddle.
I don’t think it’s barn blindness. I’d be willing to bet it’s math incompetence. She means $7500. She doesn’t understand the K in 7K doesn’t work for 75K . . .
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