Any guesses on breed(s) of my colt?

[itsjustjen]

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They are the ADHD of the horse wor.......SQUIRREL!

ADHD.....My trainer told me Dakota has ADHD because he can't focus worth crap for more than a few seconds but he is solid as a rock! That explains so much about him!!!

 

[scbatz33]

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They are the ADHD of the horse wor.......SQUIRREL!

ADHD.....My trainer told me Dakota has ADHD because he can't focus worth crap for more than a few seconds but he is solid as a rock! That explains so much about him!!!

I have been around some ASB - not a lot mind you - and most of them are like that. Very pretty, gorgeous to watch move, but squirrely as all get out. High Strung is a term I hear used to describe them in polite company.

 

[itsjustjen]

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ADHD.....My trainer told me Dakota has ADHD because he can't focus worth crap for more than a few seconds but he is solid as a rock! That explains so much about him!!!

I have been around some ASB - not a lot mind you - and most of them are like that. Very pretty, gorgeous to watch move, but squirrely as all get out. High Strung is a term I hear used to describe them in polite company.

Yeah, I love how people think that TBs are high strung....come see Dakota, that'll change your mind real quick! He shakes whenever he is nervous or scared and then he will back up if he is really scared. Falcon does the shakes too...DH noticed it today. " He shakes just like Dakota! " were his exact words.

I love it most when Dakota challenges us! He will trot, tail in air, to the end of the pasture and blow at you! But as soon as you go near him he takes off and does it all over again....it's just a huge game to him!

 

[patandchickens]

That's funny, I would not describe any of the ASBs I've known as "high strung". Reactive yes; high-strung (in the sense of actually getting mentally-spun by things) no.

Now mind you I have no experience with ones trained for the park-horse show-ring, and I suspect most of the ones I've dealt with have not really been of show-type breeding either. That may matter. (Certainly the hitch-bred lines of draft horses are FAR FAR genuinely nuttier than 'normal' lines)

But, the ones I've known, they often do a nice drama show on the subject of 'ooh, a paper cup' or 'dragons, there are *dragons* making that sound from inside the trailer!" but it is just that, empty histrionics and the fight-or-flight systems of the body are not involved at all.

(My pony is like that in fact (he is not at all a saddlebred, he is a Lipizzaner-Morab cross, but same general food-group of behavior style) -- I got him for free b/c his previous owner was convinced he was dangerously psychotic because when things happened he would shoot his head in the air and perk his ears and get all googly-eyed and nostrilly and ***snort!!!!****. She figured Vesuvius was about to blow. In fact this is among the more bombproof horses I know, he just happens to like putting on a show

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They make real good trail horses IME for exactly this reason.

Pat

 

[scbatz33]

I've worked with some high strung TBs and I've worked with some that are dead calm. I think people see them as flighty. Especially compared to say a Belgian or a QH. My girls are pretty laid back.

As for the ASB, the only ones I have ever been around are the show ones. They, ime, have all been wound a bit too tight. But then, considering all they get put through, I don't blame them.

 

[itsjustjen]

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I am pretty sure that someone could say the same thing about any other breed. You get different horse of all different breeds that are high strung or dead calm. If there was one dead calm breed, it would probably be the most popular but where is the fun in dead calm? Doesn't anyone like a little "fun" now and then?

I am so happy that I have an idea on his breed. I went out and looked at him really close and could see the shoulder and chest setting up just like a ASB. His neck is shorter and his head a little more blocky but his eyes are wide set.

Now all I have to do is figure out age and I am set! I put up new pics on my forum and they said I needed better pictures....I was like SERIOUSLY!?! It's huge that he even let me open his mouth enough to get the side and front shots ( very good ones at that ) to begin with and now they want more!?!

 

[welsummerchicks]

Can an ASB be a sabino.

American Saddlebreds can carry the sabino gene. I've seen a good many with the belly patch, LOL.

"SQUIRREL?"

LOL.

I don't find the to be attention deficit, though, they start STARING at something with the BIONIC EARS - LOL - STEEL EARS- CANNOT BE FOLDED BACK - BOINNNGGG!!!!! SUPER EARS OF STEEL! You're like riding THIS way and they are looking at the - - DIXIE CUP! It often really seems like more of a game than anything. It doesn't actually seem like they ever DO anything - just a little eek spook now and then, that's it. It's kind of weird - if a warmblood did the same moves, I'd be making out a WILL.

 

[itsjustjen]

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Yea I actually found a site that said the sabino gene but thanks anyways! He is minimal sabino at best.

 

[welsummerchicks]

One of mine appears to have the sabino gene, he's got the lip, the belly spots and midline spots, the frosting on the tail and the back half of his body, and the big HEADLIGHT blaze and one hind leg ragged white almost past the hock.

Though actually I think there are going to turn out to be other genes that make similar markings.

 

[itsjustjen]

Falcon has the half pink lip which makes him appear to always have his tongue sticking out....it's pretty cute.