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debs
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 Posted - 09 Feb 2010 : 05:25:18 AM
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| Absolutely hate the nose in the air pose....does nothing for the head, neck or body! Just looks very bizarre.I would never, ever want my boy shown like this, regardless of what the handler thought...or hyped up so much like some of these poor creatures are. That is not kind, sympathetic handling...more like abuse |
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TOOTHLESS
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Australia
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Posted - 09 Feb 2010 : 1:36:33 PM
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Keren. In the late 70,s, early 80's I was subscribing to the American Magazine "Arabian Horse World", here in Australia Straight Egyptian horses had taken off; in Britain if my memory serves me right the Maxwell's had leased El Shaklan and the "Golden Cross",became the next fad. Bask was very big in the USA,and Polish rejects had already been around, for a while, and horses from Russia were arriving.
A fellow, Tom McNair was doing very well on US show circuit showing and riding a Straight Egyptian named SAKR. He worked for Gleannloch Farms and I think is credited with the Modern, "stretch 'em and point their noses skyward". A lot of straight- egyptians then (and now ) had very short necks with very bad head-neck set ups -no mitbah. Since then the professional trainer has become more entrenched, and the rest is history- competition,money, ego,ego,ego, fashion,surgery, liposuction,intimidation. It just goes on and on and on.I'm outta here.Bye |
Edited by - TOOTHLESS on 09 Feb 2010 2:05:42 PM |
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The Art of Showing
