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03-05-2005, 05:10 PM
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| Senior Member+  | A Standardbred Question! Okay, we've had a ton of standardbreds come through our place for vetrinary care etc. and they have all been dark. I've seen red bays, dark bays, blacks but never ever seen a white standardbred. Then today I drove out to amish country to go to a fabulous amish tack store and hitched to the post was the most gorgeous standardbred i've ever seen! (im kicking myself for not bringing my camera) It was white with black stockings and black dapples on his bum. I asked the amish man who owned him and he was a standardbred. Does anyone have a light coloured standardbred? White? Chestnut? I'd love to see them!  |
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03-05-2005, 05:12 PM
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| Senior Member+  | WOW!!!! I would love to see a white standardbred!! LOL you had a good day!! to bad you did not bring your camera!! lucky you!!
__________________ Arise now, arise Riders of Theoden! Dire deeds awake, dark it is eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded! Forth Eorlingas! |
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03-05-2005, 05:14 PM
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| Senior Member+ | Dandy Brush, what part of Ontario are you from? Have you ever been to Brubachers? Thats the tack store I went to when I saw that beautiful horse! I'll have to ask around and find that man and his horse! |
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03-05-2005, 05:43 PM
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| Senior Member+  | Greyhound
 The mighty Standardbred Greyhound was foaled in 1932 in Kentucky. He was one of those awkward colts, growing fast and standing 16.2 hands as a two year old. He was sold at auction for only 800 dollars. The bidders overlooked his sire, the noted stallion Guy Abbey, and only saw that this gawky colt didn't look like a speedy horse. Looks can be deceiving. Turned out he was an amazing trotter. Greyhound had a 23 foot stride, plenty of speed and all the courage a race horse needs. He was easy to handle, very responsive to his driver, and could trot at a speed of 25 miles per hour. Nearly always in the money, and usually the winner, Greyhound became a crowd favorite. His style was to start each race out in front and stay there till the end. By the time he was retired in 1940, after seven years of racing, he had broken records for just about every distance from a quarter mile to two miles. The records show that more than 25 times he trotted a mile in two minutes or less, which record has still not been broken by any other trotter. His accomplishments are even more amazing when you consider the track surfaces and the type of sulkies used in his day. In 1938 he tied the world record of 1:57 1/4 for the mile. In that same year he took a full 10 seconds off the world's exhibition record for the mile and a half by polishing it off in 3:02 1/2. One of his more memorable records was trotting the mile in 1:55 1/4 at the Red Mile in Lexington, Kentucky -- this record stood for 31 years. Greyhound was not only gray, he was an iron gray in every sense of the words. After his retirement in 1940, Greyhound was brought out on occasion for exhibitions. His owner, Col. Baker, also allowed visitors to Baker Farm to view Greyhound through a plate glass window as he relaxed in his 15 by 30 foot stall, a pampered and contented retiree. He stayed in good health until February 1965 when he died at the ripe old age of 33, and was buried at the Baker Farm horse cemetery. Many have called him the greatest trotting horse of all time.
__________________ “Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, save a proud rider on so proud back.” -Shakespear |
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05-30-2005, 06:45 AM
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| Senior Member  | I worked for a vet at the local standardbred track. Saw lots of colors including black, chestnuts, bay roan, dapple grey. I even saw one grey that I would swear was an arabian but she was registered STB. The bay roan was amazing. Most of them do tend to be bay. My Whiskey was Blood Bay and Baby is a dark Bay.
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05-30-2005, 06:49 AM
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| Senior Member+  | They're actually grey, but they do exist. I've groomed one before for racing... he was really pretty.I've also seen chestnut ones, I could try scanning pictures of the one I looked after... -Bella 
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06-25-2005, 04:23 AM
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| Senior Member | Ok now Ive seen it all. You think grey/white is different try these!  Spotted Standardbreds.http://www.geocities.com/jo11horse/ Scroll halfway down the page and make sure your pop up blocker is on!
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06-25-2005, 05:15 AM
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| Senior Member+  | I have a chestnut standardbred!!!! My boy Rusty!!! lol... pics... hmm... Well, I show this pic alot heheee!!! but here is my beautiful boy!!! He is 22 yrs old  
__________________ ~ T H O R O U G H B R E D S ~ *County Renegade* *Fyrefly* Throw your heart over the fence and you horse will go after it... R.I.P Rusty |
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06-25-2005, 05:16 AM
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| Senior Member+ | Wait!! lol... just realised this thread is kind of old!!!
__________________ ~ T H O R O U G H B R E D S ~ *County Renegade* *Fyrefly* Throw your heart over the fence and you horse will go after it... R.I.P Rusty |
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