Cheap Friesian foal. VIP detail
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I like the bit about “I’ve only been looking in the classified ads so far.” I don’t think those even exist anymore.
Also we only long line the colts that are too rank to ride. No you don’t. You long line the colts that are compliant to teach them things on the ground. A rank colt on a long line is a wreck bound to happen.
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Gosh I never even caught that the first time I read it. I can just see it now; a woman holding on for dear life, flapping like a kite in the wind, behind some horse who they thought they could long line to teach it manners.
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This!!!
If you’re being hurt by yearlings every time you interact, something is wrong.
I’m also curious about a training facility where you volunteer to work yearlings?
No one is allowed to work my young horses except me. And if I did allow others to work them, they would be skilled person worth paying a good deal of money to.
They are at a very crucial time in their life and they’re learning what is acceptable and what is not. Consider that idea when you buy a young horse and board them. They won’t always have the perfect handling and training all the time with barn help, keep that in mind when choosing a breed, bloodline etc.
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Why does everyone want a Friesian? I wanted one when I was six, but then I started working for my first trainer as a teen and was around Friesians and realized they can be incredibly pushy (like, full-on bulldoze you over) and have a lot of health issues. Dealing with FHANA is also a PAIN.
Start with a bombproof horse that has been there, done that. The breed shouldn’t matter.
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Because they are what every kid has in the books. The Star is always a big black untamed stallion; it’s never a fugly bay who is 15h on a good day and would happily tote its rider through a cirque du soleil show without batting an eye.
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Interesting when I grew up in the Black Stallion era we didn’t want hairy feathers or draft characteristics at all, those were signs of cold blood or plow horse etc. Everyone dreamed of Arabs. Even today I’m not attracted to feathers in riding horses for that reason. Also realize that harness horses aren’t the best under saddle.
Interestingly when the daydreaming child actually gets their fugly hony that will tote them through hell and high water, they end up madly in love with the horse and think he’s the most beautiful thing in the world. As they should.
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This is the sale ad I would respond to!
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I’ve got a few 
I tend to collect them. The fugly ones that are worth their weight in gold.
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Growing up reading the books all I wanted was a Arabian or Mustang. I also was exposed to Spirit (the movie) and of course we all wanted to go get a Mustang and name him that.
My mom when she was growing up wanted a quarter horse. It was the era of some of the best western movies ever made after all.
But now there’s a bunch of kids shows out where the main horses are friesians, fell ponies, gypsy vanners, etc.
Plus, the knight in shining armor never rides up to save the princess on a thoroughbred, a surefooted pony, or something; it’s always a majestic black or white baroque breed.
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Some of the most stunning old Western movie horses were actually Andalusians!
As a kid I had a small horse off a dude string who was sourced from a feral herd on a native reserve, and I got to see some of her cousins too. She was fantastic in many ways but she cured me of the mustang fantasy.
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WITHOUT feathers. Key detail 
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When I was a kid I only wanted an Appaloosa…not sure if that’s much smarter than a Friesian jk of course my first event pony was the best Appy ever.
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IKR. I thought I was being super helpful pointing out how clipping works. Like here you go ma’am you can totally fix those pesky feathers.
Lol! Spots are fun! I’m still hoping to have a buckskin one day. Or even better a silver dapple. But I’ve got plain bay and plain chestnut instead.
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I feel sorry for the Friesian sport horse breeder she admits to “stalking.”
If the OP would just write out a list of her requirements, she’d see that she’s a candidate for one of those much maligned facebook ISO unicorn pleas. From what I gather, she has her heart set on a yearling or very young Friesian (or cross) that is:
- going to mature to the appropriate height
- has an acceptable, “non-Susie” temperament
- super speshul
- eventually capable of 4th level movements
- preferable featherless
- Baroque in type (or not but maybe sort of)
- a great future trail horse
- priced within an undetermined budget
- marketed in some form of a classified ad
- not “Extra” (whatever the heck that means)
So yeah. B-I-N-G-O indeed!
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And don’t forget that she is afraid to back this unicorn herself.
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I have met this person and they have several broken bones.
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Same!
As a kid of course I loved The Black but in my young mind he was not even a particular breed, just a beautifully put together, athletic all black stallion.
As a young teen when I drew pictures of horses, they were often dark grey with white mane and tail, or bright dark chestnut with blond mane and tail, with the refined head of an Arabian and the body of a sport horse that could jump the moon 
But as a whole, I think I’ve been exposed to so many horses / ponies over the years, I never was fixated on one particular breed.
Funny how the OP deleted all her posts and ran away
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Well, there was a friesian cross, 6 years old, going under saddle, looked pretty cute if you’re into that thing, in TN… for 8500 that I was going to share with OP but alas, they’re gone.
Wasn’t meant to be!
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3a. So speshul that it defies trainer’s parameters for suitable breeding and conformation
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