I have a 5 yr old out of Deniro/Feiner Stern mare…couldn’t be happier… He is everything you mentioned but can be a bit of a bully…OK…I spoiled him!! But I agree that just sitting on a horse without knowing the breeding is not such a bad thing… No judgement or preconceived ideas or biases. If you like the horse and you are a match than it is what was meant to be:D
Umm, not necessarily. There are many, many anecdotes here and elsewhere from people who bought their dream horse based on love at first sight, and the horse did not work out.
I agree that breeding is not the be all and end all–age, sex, amount of feed and exercise, prior training and handling, veterinary issues, etc.–CAN and DO influence a horse’s temperament as much or more than the genetic make-up. But deciding on buying a horse based solely on trying him out once or twice is definitely buying a pig-in-a-poke. Anything else, such as genetic factors, that you can look at that will add information about the horse is helpful. :yes:
Yikes, I never meant to purchase a horse after the first time a potential owner sat on him/her!!! Of course everything you mentioned has something to do with a horse, it’s temperment, training issues and all the rest. What I meant was not to base “everything” on the breeding. Of course genetics plays a part but then so does the fact that some people are more of a match to a certain type of horse than maybe someone else. If genetics were “everything”, than where would thoroughbred racing be? It is all a crapshoot… Nature has a way of returning everything to “average” in time
