Oohhh.........I have to TOTALLY disagree with this. I think "most" minis have come leaps and bounds from the first ones....(like QHs they haven't changed over the years much... so i don't think minis should, but i know they did & do )
kaykay said:Instead of having different types in amhr i would rather see an under 30 division class schedule.
Also i have to disagree that the quarter type cant win. The last two shows i attended the judges were definately picking the more quarter type minis. Just depends on who is judging!!!
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I agree with you! I don't like seeing these high stepping, long nosed Hackney style ponies being bred into the miniature breed. I've been in this business long enough to be able to say that I don't agree with double registering Shetlands and miniatures. It was split off for a reason! Miniatures and Shetlands have different body styles and different temperments. This is a bad direction to take, and I can see it coming where someone will push through a rule to allow shoes "for protecting their feet" and then adding pads and weights, braids, and pushing our horses to the extremes that the finest shetland trainers would love.I am still having a hard time understanding why, when the miniature horse split off years ago because the breeders wanted to develope a differant type of small equine, now all of a sudden the influx of shetland is considered an improvement and desirable. If a smaller height division was required for shetlands why did the shetland registery not just add another height division. I very much feel that heating the breed back up is going to eventually limit the market as we will no longer have a horse for everyone but a breed only the trainers can handle. I know this always starts a heated thread but I feel we need to preserve the miniature horse as a breed not turn it into a miniature shetland registry.
ruffian said:[i agree with you! I don't like seeing these high stepping, long nosed Hackney style ponies being bred into the miniature breed. I've been in this business long enough to be able to say that I don't agree with double registering Shetlands and miniatures. It was split off for a reason! Miniatures and Shetlands have different body styles and different temperments. This is a bad direction to take, and I can see it coming where someone will push through a rule to allow shoes "for protecting their feet" and then adding pads and weights, braids, and pushing our horses to the extremes that the finest shetland trainers would love.
Why is is the AMHR has raised the rates for registering AMHA horses, but you can easily double register a Shetland??? Yes lots of ponies were used to begin the breed, but that was years ago, so why take a step backwards? If this is just a height breed, why not register dwarfs? They meet the height requirement??
OK - off my soap box - flame away
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ruffian said:Why is is the AMHR has raised the rates for registering AMHA horses, but you can easily double register a Shetland??? Yes lots of ponies were used to begin the breed, but that was years ago, so why take a step backwards?
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