I’m beginning to think that if Seven gets back to her barn he will be kept in a stall with a small turn out like Beyonce, one of her mares. Beyonce is used for her embryos because she had some sort of tendon injury and can’t be turned out. I don’t know what the injury was, but it happened at the farm from what I’ve heard, maybe DDFT but I’m not sure. She supposedly a very well bred mare, but never was shown due to the injury. She’s also Katie’s mom’s horse and I can’t remember if she’s his dam or not. But back to Seven, his future might be a stall and small attached turn out. Not a quality of life I’d choose for a young horse. For my animals I choose quality over quantity of life.
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Beyonce is a full sister to an AQHA Superhorse (SnapKracklePop) who produced another Superhorse (Snap It Send It, who is by VS Code Red, now owned by KVS) and yes, she’s Seven’s dam. So it’s all trying to reproduce SISI’s success out of a mare who doesn’t have the same performance record and had a career-ending injury, sure they share dam and sire but genetics don’t allow for perfect replication without cloning. Seven isn’t by VS Code Red but VS Flatline, same dam as VSCR.
(I hate that I know this)
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I hate that my brain space contains this, too!
There are 5 horses in my trainer’s barn who are by or out of mares by VS Code Red or VS Code Blue. I come from the h/j and WB world, but to me it seems like these bloodlines aren’t that hard to come by. Granted, they are popular lines. Most of them (including the 5 I know) are a pretty color and decent western performance horses. Although only one actually does WP, but again, not my circus, not my roany monkeys. (I do ranch and ride a plain ol’ bay mare).
Oh, so very true and yet I’m convinced a whole lot of breeders and aficionadoes don’t quite grasp this.
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Why is that? Don’t any of these breeders have brothers and/or sisters, or know people who do? Isn’t it obvious that when Mommy and Daddy make kids, the likelihood of any of them being replicas of any others is practically nil? Sure, now and then you see siblings why closely resemble each other, but even same-sex fraternal twins are usually very different from each other.
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You’d think this revelation would dawn on them, but to this day I continue to encounter horse people who’ll gush about their expectant foal that’s going to be a full sibling to ________. I mean, okay, good for you for going back to the well. But there’s absolutely no guarantee you’ll even get a majority of the good genes. You could end up by getting all of the crappy ones. Genetic roll of the dice and all that.
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There is quite a bit of unsoundness in those bloodlines.
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Hence the No XXX (I forget the QH stud who was identified as passing HYPP) in ads for QH.
But yeah, genetics is a crapshoot.
Guess KVS likes rolling the dice 
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Impressive, but it is more likely the mutation occurred in his dam Glamour Bars. VSCR and VSFL dam was HYPP n/H.
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Kind of like the movie “Twins.” One of my favorites.
Twins Julius (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Vincent (Danny DeVito) Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a South Seas island and raised by philosophers. Vincent becomes the ultimate lowlife and is about to be killed by loan sharks when Julius discovers that he has a brother and begins looking for him
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“I can’t wait to toss them”
IYKYK 
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what a horrible name
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Oh, I don’t know. The current state of QH WP their way of going looks like a death march?
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His dam’s name is Vital Signs Are Good. The VS part is Vital Signs.
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Just so you’all know. I have a VS Flatline 3yo. He is a lovely mover (remember-he’s a western pleasure horse), a pretty sorrel and probably the absolutely sweetest disposition of any of the 12 or so horses I’ve owned. There are three more in our barn, ages 4, 2 and 1. All full siblings and they all look different, but have similar movement and the same wonderful disposition! Sometimes that niche breeding works spectacularly!! Sorry to say the mare can no longer be bred.
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I know a couple VS Code Blue horses and they’re really something. Sweet, personable, talented.
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my last horse was a QH though not of this breeding. He was the most amiable, kind hearted , try hard horse I ever had. I would not hesitate to consider or recommend the right QH for anyone. He was a little working type, Nicely proportioned and so sensitive to the aids
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No real new video, just the vet answering some questions not related to Seven. But she did put up a photo showing his legs. Still no real timeline for him to leave the hospital since Katie is in the middle of foaling season. For your viewing pleasure here’s what his poor legs look like at the moment.
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If anyone is still interested, Seven is scheduled to go home March 17.
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Thanks for the update.
I sincerely hope that however much life he has, in whatever restricted conditions he must live, that it is filled with coltish joy and free of pain. And that it is not monetized for clicks and merchandise.
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