So EXCITED! 17.1h Black TB Stallion Panoramic goes to Canada, eh?!

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I am not sure if anyone has seen the good news elsewhere, but Donna of True Colours Farm has purchased the 17.1h true black Thoroughbred stallion Panoramic from Westar Sport Horses in Washington!! So excited that this guy has gone to the best of hands and look forward to future success in the breeding shed and show ring!

Just a little information on Panoramic, because this thread would be useless without photos!!!

Photo Collage
Panoramic’s Facebook Page!

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Also he has some LOVELY foals on the ground, maybe post some pictures too? Since I can’t!

[dbaygirl]

Stud pics are confusing…in some he has 2 right socks and some he has 3 socks. Is this the same horse?

[time_fault]

Same horse, just shine on the photograph. Original photo:

click here

[EquineLVR]

doesnt look like shine… looks like two different horses…

However… did Winner pass away? It states on her website that he died in May? Never heard anything about it.

[bugsynskeeter]

Yeah…he’s got 2 hind socks in the “original” picture.

[Nootka]

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Same horse, just shine on the photograph. Original photo:

click here[/QUOTE]

If you really look at it you can tell that it is the way the sun is hitting the leg and the shadows make it look like a sock.

[wcporter]

@EquineLVR;5807185

doesnt look like shine… looks like two different horses…

Hey, maybe he’s like the other “black stallion” who was sometimes a friesian, a thoroughbred, or an arab! :winkgrin:

[TrueColours]

This picture has had more questions thrown at it than any other I have come across! :lol:

It was taken at his previous owners farm. Panoramic has 2 stockings - 1 in front and 1 in behind.

The race picture of him shows him with 2 white rundown bandages in behind leading some people to believe he has 2 hind stockings.

This picture:

is the one that confuses heck out of people - me included in the beginning! :lol:

Scrunch your eye up and look at the hind leg with the REAL stocking on it - the right hind - and then compare it to the left hind where there is the diagnol slash of sunlight across the black leg. It fools the eye and initially appears to be a stocking - but its not. It just how the sun cuts across it and thats all …

You can see clearly in THIS picture he only has the one stocking in behind

Winner did pass away a few months ago. He moved back to a facility closer to his owners place so she could get a few of her mares bred, he colicked one night quite badly, she and the vet felt he was completely under control when they left him late that evening, he was okay through the night and then in the morning he took a bad turn and he ended up being euthanized. Such a shame - he really was a very special stallion …

[lolita1]

Yes I agree 3 socks and the blaze is different. Both nice horses any way.

[Ladybug_Hill]

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Yes I agree 3 socks and the blaze is different. Both nice horses any way.[/QUOTE]

In the pictures that True Colors posted here, it is clear on close inspection that in fact there are only two stockings. Anyone that continues to argue is just making noise to be unpleasant.

The left hind foot is dark as well as the pastern just above the hoof. The splash of sunlight in the one picture is very confusing. I did not look at the faceboook picture but it seems to me that somewhere along the way there WAS a picture that had been photoshopped incorrectly and the non-white leg had been painted white. I don’t really care for the overly glossy “brochure”. I HATE photoshopped photos of stallions at all. Makes me suspicious.

BUT the stallion only has two stockings in ALL the pictures that I have viewed here.

So tired of the typical horse industry senseless bickering so I am speaking up.

Maybe I should have just had a cup of coffee before reading anything here!

[Bats79]

Two clear stockings on the off side and a stunning, leggy horse that shows lovely TB characteristics in the photos. The USA does have some gorgeous TB stallions that are marketed to the performance horse budget. Australia tends to keep most of its TBs purely for racing - either that or the stud fees are exhorbitant.

Good luck for him in his new home.

[cheektwocheek]

Yippee!
I was looking at him when they announced the dispersal sale of their Stallions. What a nice pairing… these two.
http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa403/Tinspider6/2011-08-03_12-20-31_609.jpg

[TrueColours]

The USA does have some gorgeous TB stallions that are marketed to the performance horse budget. Australia tends to keep most of its TBs purely for racing - either that or the stud fees are exhorbitant.

I think the biggest difference you will find is that many breeding programs here in North America are based 100% on TB bloodlines and those breeders specifically look for certain attributes and bloodlines in their breeding stock and none of those offspring are ever meant to be destined for the racetrack. They are bred solely for hunters, or eventers or jumpers. While it would be fun to get some of the offspring out there racing, those that had the ability to actually do well in that discipline and make money would be the exception, rather than the rule …

Its funny - I have often come across some Australian stallions that I LOVE, and then I look at the stud fee and think “NO WAY could I afford him anyhow!”

We do have SO many within a very reasonable budget here in Canada and the USA, that cater pretty well to any discipline someone is breeding for …

[Fastjofast]

Wow! I had to look really hard at that picture before the left hind sock disappeared! What an optical illusion!

[TrueColours]

Wow! I had to look really hard at that picture before the left hind sock disappeared! What an optical illusion!

But now the funny part is, that once your brain has wrapped itself around the fact that the leg is shiny black and NOT white at all, you will never be able to see it “white” again and will wonder how you EVER made that mistake to begin with! :lol:

[foxhavenfarm]

Congrats Donna!

[time_fault]

Well this was fun!

[Foxtrot_s]

I get it. Very good optical illusion including the white foot. Same horse tho.

[EquineLVR]

I did finally see it to… how odd…

[sporthorsefilly]

Panoramic is gorgeous! I love Theatrical, as his sire Nureyev was the picture of perfect conformation.

Look forward to some lovely foals!