You just gave me a terrible flashback to my childhood, when my brother (who was a huge Star Trek fan) bought Shatner’s poetry record album. It was the most cringey thing I’d ever heard, even at the young age.
Please tell me he didn’t put out more albums! 
Before I can even read the comments, I have to express myself:
Is that one of those horrid herculon saddle pads from the 80s?
Well, they are certainly beginner tolerant?
I always feel bad when horses are made fun of because of their terrible conformation. Poor things, it isn’t their fault some whackadoo human thought they were a breeding genius, when in fact they are simply low intellect Dr Frankensteins.
The horse had a sweet expression on his face when he looked towards the camera. If I owned him I’d have school kids come for weekly visits to help groom him. That’s a lot of horse to clean! And he seems to be better at standing than moving.
One direction but both leads! 
Google Mystic Meadows Genetics. It looks like the original incarnation of this Pegasus project, including a bare bones yin-yang logo. It seems that there’s a fascination with mapping the DNA of horses.
I don’t know how I found that website or what I was Googling. But there it was.
The palomino ASB/Teke sure is purty!! Can’t imagine the personality though.
Spicy, would be my guess 
I have never really got the friesian obsession either but I do have a client with a team of friesian x halflinger - does chore team competitions and pleasure driving with them - luckily they got the haffy brains (and pretty haffy head) in a little more refined body and bigger trot. They are really cute and good citizens.
He’s kinda cute. But a ground pounder still.
Husband horse could be a very good career path for him. 
Yeah maybe, I can’t imagine riding that sofa would be fun. I’m still seeing him as a kids play toy.
it takes a big kid to move that couch though…
You could get about 7 or 8 kids up there though 
Color is pretty much the least important thing, but he is a pretty color? And yeah, pretty color is not always a good thing…
And as you and others have said, he does seem very sweet and willing and easy under saddle, even if his gaits aren’t the best and currently he runs into canter…
There are things to like about him! But he’s worth more like $3k, not $30k.
Maybe six Friends?
Have you seen the cost of draftx horses lately? They aren’t going for $3k in my neck of the woods. I used to pick them up for $2500-3500 and put some training on them to sell them as amateur mounts for much higher. Now they start at $10-15k+…this horse market is wild. They weren’t even any special magickal colors. Do a quick dreamhorse search and you’ll be amazed (after you filter through the large number of auction ads)
I have to admit that out here in the southwest, a flashy draft cross that’s marketed wisely will readily bring $20K or more. They’re used on ranches for the larger riders and I’ve known a few that were actually decent beginner mounts in team roping. But here’s the deal: They can’t be too big. Much over 16-hands and they’re difficult to saddle and too clunky to work around cattle. And they have to broke, like really broke, and handy to ride. Otherwise it’s like maneuvering a battleship.
agree with the 16hh sweet spot - they need to be stout enough to carry a larger rider, but if they are too tall they are too hard to get on for the less athletic riders, and a lot of the target market trail rides and does obstacles so the “maneuvering a battleship” becomes a problem
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