Longe line futurities for two year olds

[epowers]

[QUOTE=Simkie;7934568]
I’m going to call those the typical corn spots roans get? I really, really hope those aren’t spur marks :([/QUOTE]

But corn marks are typically from some kind of injury. In roans, when the hair grows back from scrapes, cuts, etc, it grows back solid, and is called a corn mark. So it looks awfully suspicious to have a big patch of corn marks exactly where a spur would hit the horse, and almost none anywhere else on the body.

[Simkie]

[QUOTE=epowers;7934743]
But corn marks are typically from some kind of injury. In roans, when the hair grows back from scrapes, cuts, etc, it grows back solid, and is called a corn mark. So it looks awfully suspicious to have a big patch of corn marks exactly where a spur would hit the horse, and almost none anywhere else on the body.[/QUOTE]

Not always, though. I had a roan mare who’d pop with corn marks at every shed, unrelated to any injury.

But the location and number on this guy sure does look suspicious, as you say.

[camohn]

http://pennbrookfarm.net/gallery3/index.php/Performance-Horse-News/RANCH-2 thankfully some look like this ( Kim is our former renter of our tenant house). Kim is a champion barrel racer/ pole bender and this is her next barrel horse ( aka bred to MOVE not shuffle).

[back_in_the_saddle]

And watch how their tails don’t move. Something’s up with that as well.

[2tempe]

[QUOTE=back in the saddle;7935020]
And watch how their tails don’t move. Something’s up with that as well.[/QUOTE]

Google numbing of horse tails. Not pretty.

[Donatella]

[QUOTE=CrowneDragon;7933811]
I can’t gripe too much about the longe line classes because I still like it a lot better than the robotic 2 year old under saddle western pleasure type classes, not that I particularly like any of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enMltPKdDDs
What can you do.[/QUOTE]

Sad and weird. I don’t understand Paint and Quarter Horse (“stock horse” breeds I guess.) Reining looks interesting but the rest of it :no:

[Highflyer]

It’s strange to watch-- I just started eventing a little registered Paint mare and while she physically resembles these horses (stock type) she is extremely hot and quick and makes my TBs look like old schoolies. I guess there’s a reason she didn’t end up on the breed show circuit.

[Corbyville283]

I just can’t even watch that! If they were my horses I’d be having a vet out for lameness issues. Never mind that I’ve been on a ranch with real working western horses - that is just sad.

[camohn]

[QUOTE=Highflyer;7939258]
It’s strange to watch-- I just started eventing a little registered Paint mare and while she physically resembles these horses (stock type) she is extremely hot and quick and makes my TBs look like old schoolies. I guess there’s a reason she didn’t end up on the breed show circuit.[/QUOTE]

Could have been bred for barrel racing / pole bending

[Draftmare]

[QUOTE=Simkie;7933569]
My confusion with this post as well. APHA has had yearling longe line classes for years…

Complete with fake tails and all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XERGbXCsqtg

(I find this handler so sloppy with the longe line and terribly distracting! Wouldn’t you have a little more finesse than that?)[/QUOTE]

As far as Western Pleasure horses go Lazy Luvah is one of my favorites. Friend of mine plans to breed to him in the spring. If you watch videos of his under saddle he is one of the few that really moves out, and is really driving from the back end at the lope.

All that aside I am not a fan of yearling lunge line classes, or two year old futurities for that matter. I want to know what happened to letting babies be babies and grow up before they are started under saddle?!

[Draftmare]

[QUOTE=2tempe;7935082]
Google numbing of horse tails. Not pretty.[/QUOTE]

This is illegal. What they often do now is weight the fake tails so that it doesn’t move.

[Highflyer]

[QUOTE=camohn;7939677]
Could have been bred for barrel racing / pole bending[/QUOTE]

I suspect she was just bred because her mom had a uterus, given what her owner paid for her!