Yeah, a horny stallion is not a selling point. How about just one animal under saddle doing something. Walking calmly down a trail. Moving a few cows. Going over a jump. Trotting over poles. Heck, leading would be nice. Otherwise, if I want an untrained horse, I’ll pay $125 for a BLM mustang.
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What’s up with the bracelets? Do the mares come with jewelry? Are they beaded bracelets, like Swiftie friendship bracelets? Maybe each bracelet spells out an important clue to the whereabouts of Poseidon’s triad, the discovery of which will save Earth from certain doom!
Wait. I think this could be the plot of a Nicolas Cage movie… 
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Patience, Grasshopper.
You have to wait for the next generation, when he crosses a Percha-doodle with a duck.
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I thought it was Celeste who wears bracelets to “protect” her arms from being bitten by horses when she snaps/breaks (?) a tendon in their necks.
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That was an eyeful.
This one strikes me as especially unfortunate. A 3yr old Clyde-Friesian. The video of him trotting around is painful. At least they managed to saddle him, poor bugger. $10k
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I am curious about how “Thunder brings a personal touch to every interaction”.
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In MHO if you have any experience with breeding,you shouldn’t be curious. 
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Ha ha I don’t. It just seems very anthropomorphic.
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“Horse enjoys being rugged. Totally unrelated, but our new farrier quit for some reason…”
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It is anthropomorphic, as well as being just plain weird.
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Although, I somehow missed the mushroom phase of the 70s, this definitely seems a little psilocybin-ish.
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Also, I’m here to say this is the most beautiful grassroots anti-free-market-magic effort I’ve ever seen on the internet.
This dude is whack.
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Yup. Pretty much so.
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We just had a thread about how fragile Friesians are, and how short-lived. They are definitely beautifully attention-grabbing horses, but why were they picked for the perfect real-life designer horse collection?
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Because they have lots of hair
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I’ve never understood the friesian obsession. A good one is a very nice driving or parade type, and I guess they have that Hollywood warhorse look. For some reason people think they make good dressage horses, maybe just because they aren’t built to jump? But so many are poorly conformed and not particularly bright - I think it would take some really knowledgeable breeders and a lot of investment to return the breed to what it is supposed to be.
I know there are nice ones out there, but that drafty sloping butt is giving these guys nothing to work with.
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I am always amazed at the breed bias I’ve gotten in specific dressage barns with a saddlebred (that has a very round butt and a lovely round canter) when they have DHH and Friesians happily in the barn. Though many saddlebreds were trained to drive, “saddle” is literally in the name because they are primarily a riding horse.
Makes zero sense to me. Very odd.
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I’ve worked with one Friesian in my life, and that horse did (and excelled at) everything you asked her to do. She was sport bred instead of the baroque style, and I started riding her as a green broke 4yo. She was lovely in dressage, dabbled over fences (including winning a cross country hunter class - like a derby - at a schooling show ), and when I moved out of state she went on to driving and won all the things as a combined driving horse. Plus she was incredibly sweet, great to handle, and quiet on the trail. Maybe I was lucky but she was such a cool horse, I’d jump at the opportunity to ride one again.
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I hate breed biases.
I once had a highly regarded dentist out to the barn. I told him the next horse up was a boarder with a saddlebred. He goes, “Oh no I don’t do saddlebreds. Watch this.” Then he proceeded to charge the poor high school-aged owner an exam fee for quickly reaching in the mouth and saying everything looked great. I was livid, but being young myself then, I didn’t call him out. I wish I would have.
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What an unmitigated ass and a dishonest butthead (dentist). What a crappy thing to do regardless of horse breed or owner age.
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