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Quote: It's an honest-to-God fact! Apparently denial is widespread or it is a marketing ploy. The mystique must help drive up the asking prices as the truth would not. I'd tell you the same in person I'll repeat, I grew up seeing these horses daily (and no before we go off on that...

Just a few snippets from breeders' websites The Gypsy Vanner Horse is a beautiful and rare new breed of horse envisioned by the European Gypsies. These horses have been selectively bred over the past 50 years to create a kind of small Shire that is colorful enough to match their caravans...

I must have hit a nerve, as I said previously I have nothing against the horses themselves. I pity the ones living in unfit conditions. I was drawing attention to the romanticised story behind the so-called breed. If someone was importing similar-looking pound mutts, charging top dollar for...

I didn't say a bad word about the 'breed'. Just that it is very much a case of one man's trash is another man's treasure. It's probably something the US breeders want to keep quiet though

I think the fact that there is no such thing as a 'Gypsy Vanner' in Britain says it all. How romantic to think of the gypsies in their little caravans travelling the country; in reality they mostly use the kind towed by a vehicle, not an ornately-painted wooden vehicle. These cobs are the same...