Horse Question

[Soltydog]

My resident expert reckons that one is a Tennessee walking horse @Fnaar

 

[Fnaar]

My resident expert reckons that one is a Tennessee walking horse @Fnaar

I just looked them up... they really are a thing! And there's a whole 'animal cruelty' story attached... v interesting

 

[Turdus philomelos]

Off topic a wee bit but horsey non the less.

How come motor drivers will show horse and rider far more courtesy than a cyclist in my experience?

I think I meet the same criteria;
John says I can be a right animal

I would possible make just a big a dent if struck at speed.

I'm a herbivore

I don't defecate on roads

 

[Cheddar George]

Can anyone identify this one, also?

Yup, that's McGinty and Rocky ........ late for rehearsal again.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I just looked them up... they really are a thing! And there's a whole 'animal cruelty' story attached... v interesting

Animal cruelty aspects of this are for cheaters. And the practice should be more closely prosecuted, and also banned from the show ring. There are better ways of getting these gaits other than soring. My Father could speak a lot more to this topic, as he was a great show horse fan, and his family horse breeders, but he's passed.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Yup, that's McGinty and Rocky ........ late for rehearsal again.

That appears to be a Mummer Wild Horse.

 

[Globalti]

I agree, it's a fine-looking horse. I'd say its a native fell pony, probably of the sort that used to be used as a pack horse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fell_pony

Fact: pack horses carried all the goods and materials around this country before canals, then railways then roads arrived and when most people still lived in the country. After WW11 redundant military lorries took away what remained of the packhorse trade and twelve thousand ponies were slaughered in 1946 and 1947.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Sorry, no assistance here I'm afraid - but looking at the leg positioning should it not fall over?

Well don't think it's that young as it is shod up but is possibly driven rather than ridden so they do start them younger. Dales or Fells in there? Very heavy though like you say.

I wasnae far off

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Can anyone identify this one, also?

It's Dobbin from Rentaghost. (Giving away my age there ).

Slightly OT, but when searching for the above there appears to be a Hollywood remake in development.

 

[Lullabelle]

[QUOTE 3644966, member: 9609"]Met this fella the day, canny thing, quite liked the look of him, looked small to be a heavy horse, 6' to the top of his head. (may have been a youngster though)
Anyone know what make and model he is, (I am saying 'he' it may of been a she, I never looked)
I was thinking Irish Cob, but the ones I can recall from my youth were all Piebald.

[/QUOTE]

 

[Twinks]

I wasnae far off

@Marmion Took me a moment

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Can anyone identify this one, also?

Is it a pinto miming?

 

[Twinks]

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Can anyone identify this one, also?

Why am I thinking of this?? :


View: http://youtu.be/105pWhPusV0

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Off topic a wee bit but horsey non the less.

How come motor drivers will show horse and rider far more courtesy than a cyclist in my experience?

Half a ton of skittish irrational dumb (in comparison) animal with lethal hard hammers for feet on the end of very long highly muscular levers designed to kick out for defence.

Hmmmm.