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lantairvleaTo rant about the whole breed system they have up at virtualhorseranch.com.
It's insane. Plain and simple. You can cross a Paint and an appaloosa and get a Colorado Ranger, or, better yet, you can mix a Standardbred and Holsteiner to produce a Morgan. Some of these horses have such insanely crossed bloodlines it's almost laughable. Actually, it is rather laughable. The first goal I've set for myself is to get together a group of horses that is purebred for three generations on at least one side and then go from there. I'd also like to try and get all of the mares I started off with up to Level 5 before I sell them. My net worth is somewhere around 156 thou, which is good. Anyway, original rant. It's crazy how the breeding goes around there. Granted, I have a real life experience that's almost as laughable and strange as how their mixes go. Oh, the greatest kick I got was when I saw a Palomino Friesian. A FRIESIAN! PALOMINO! It's insane. Friesians are pretty much always black, maybe a brown or bay will pop up now and again, but other than that dark, dark, dark.
Cody's G-pa owns a ranch about a mile from Judy's as the crow flies (or in Judy's case pigeons [which number over 100 now]). There's a guy boarding an Appaloosa stud and says he's breeding and training cutters. Now that's not what I'm getting at. The thing is, he breeds this Appy to QH mares and then breads the App/QH foals back to a QH stud and then registers them as PUREBRED QH despite being a quarter Appy. I find that plain odd. You'd think they wouldn't let them register at a QH registry as a purebred when they're so close to the App, I can see possibly one that's 1/16 or less, but 1/4 is still rather close to the spotted ones. to really be considered a purebred.
Ah well, such are horses.
After today I won't be spending nearly so much time at VHR, mostly because I can't afford this much time every day. Definately slowing up the pace at which I go from tomorrow on. But it's so entertaining! Hmm, seems like I'm stuck with just breeding horses for now as I'm over the limit to buy for the novice account (and I'm not spending money just yet on this game, not unless I manage to get myself dead broke, which doesn't look like its going to happen).
It's insane. Plain and simple. You can cross a Paint and an appaloosa and get a Colorado Ranger, or, better yet, you can mix a Standardbred and Holsteiner to produce a Morgan. Some of these horses have such insanely crossed bloodlines it's almost laughable. Actually, it is rather laughable. The first goal I've set for myself is to get together a group of horses that is purebred for three generations on at least one side and then go from there. I'd also like to try and get all of the mares I started off with up to Level 5 before I sell them. My net worth is somewhere around 156 thou, which is good. Anyway, original rant. It's crazy how the breeding goes around there. Granted, I have a real life experience that's almost as laughable and strange as how their mixes go. Oh, the greatest kick I got was when I saw a Palomino Friesian. A FRIESIAN! PALOMINO! It's insane. Friesians are pretty much always black, maybe a brown or bay will pop up now and again, but other than that dark, dark, dark.
Cody's G-pa owns a ranch about a mile from Judy's as the crow flies (or in Judy's case pigeons [which number over 100 now]). There's a guy boarding an Appaloosa stud and says he's breeding and training cutters. Now that's not what I'm getting at. The thing is, he breeds this Appy to QH mares and then breads the App/QH foals back to a QH stud and then registers them as PUREBRED QH despite being a quarter Appy. I find that plain odd. You'd think they wouldn't let them register at a QH registry as a purebred when they're so close to the App, I can see possibly one that's 1/16 or less, but 1/4 is still rather close to the spotted ones. to really be considered a purebred.
Ah well, such are horses.
After today I won't be spending nearly so much time at VHR, mostly because I can't afford this much time every day. Definately slowing up the pace at which I go from tomorrow on. But it's so entertaining! Hmm, seems like I'm stuck with just breeding horses for now as I'm over the limit to buy for the novice account (and I'm not spending money just yet on this game, not unless I manage to get myself dead broke, which doesn't look like its going to happen).
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Date: 2003-10-26 09:22 pm (UTC)Which, it actually has something to do with the delphin's place in society.
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Date: 2003-10-27 05:56 am (UTC)However, I have some lady who has some really pure horses who is gonna breed a filly for me. Once the foal is born...*dances*
I agree, that the breeding system on that game is FUBAR. There is NOTHING WRONG with a Grade horse!!! I had one, and he fucking ROCKED. I went head-to-head in a Western Riding class on a horse who, afte rbeing bought and sold four or five times, had never had anyone pay over $300 for him...and I beat about fifty people on purebred multi-thousand-dollar horses at the State Finals one year in the Western Riding class. On top of all that, Dandy [the grade I'm referring to] was over 30 years old. Imagine that! Getting beat by an arthritic 30 year old plug with a deformed head and muscle problems! He beat out horses pulling off flying lead changes with his little stumbling skip-changes...because we did them consistently, and didn't miss a one. He knew what was expected of him...and I still remember how shiny I made him for that show...God, spent HOURS grooming him...only to have a very clean, very shiny, very old and tired and docile palomino gelding with a funny-looking head and a right front leg that didn't bend quite right. *snicker*
Whoa, tangent.
But yeah. I wish that if you blatantly mixed two breed on there, that it was listed as a "grade" horse. No shame in not being pure!