Enuff with the dog & cats on DU - Let us admire a horse

[packman]

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[Ohiogal]

1. BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

Whose horse is this?

[50 Shades Of Blue]

11. What a magnificent beauty!

[hlthe2b]

2. Absolutely gorgeous!

[CherokeeDem]

3. Gorgeous....

A Friesian? What a magnificent creature.

[Lochloosa]

4. Now that is a big dog.

[Phentex]

5. Horses are spooky to me!

[lunamagica]

6. Gorgeous, just gorgeous!

[femmocrat]

7. Hello, Gorgeous!

[MFM008]

8. Is that the most

Beautiful horse in the world? Really there is one.
Still a black beauty.

[KT2000]

9. just WOW!

what a gorgeous horse!

[pressbox69]

10. Of course, of course.

[ailsagirl]

12. Fresian??

I never tire of gazing at those powerful beauties!!!

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. There is a very famous Fresian ...name is ..Frederick something something

Incredible mane and tail, even stills of him are powerful.
Drop dead gorgeous breed.

[trueblue2007]

13. G O R G E O U S !!!!!!

[Bayard]

14. Another Friesian

They are beautiful.

I love Sting anyway, and when you add horses................
The black is a Freisian. The gray is an Andalusian. I think the herd at the end is Norwegian Fjords.

[csziggy]

16. The black the girl is riding with a bridle along the sea shore

Might also be an Andalusian.

Gray horses are not born gray - they can be born nearly any color and gradually gray out as they mature. There are slow graying and fast graying genes - some gray horses are nearly white all over by the time they are three or four, some do not fully gray out until they are seven or eight.

The herd of all dun and grulla horses at the end could be Nowegian Fjords. There is also a herd before them that look like mustangs or Quarter Horses.

[Bayard]

17. Maybe, or a Warmblood

My gray mare (Anglo-Trakehner) was born black, and by the time I bought her at five, she was a dark dapple gray, with black mane and tail. She's gradually lightened over the years, to where now, at 32, she's nearly white, with silver mane/tail.

[csziggy]

18. Could be

The warmblood stallion I crossed my Quarter Horse mares with was gray. Both colts out of that crossing turned gray.

Since it seems as though most of the filming was done in Western Europe with some stock footage from other locations, it's hard to tell what the breeds are for certain. Friesians and Andalusians are distinctive as are the Norwegian Fjords, but the other horses are pretty generic.

Besides, horses are sort of like humans - they have been crossbred over the years and there really are no true pure breeds left. Several of my Quarter Horses are also registered as American Warmbloods after being inspected and approved. These are Foundation Quarter Horse registered also, and have little Thoroughbred blood in their bloodlines.

[Bayard]

19. Ladyhawk

Rutger Hauer's horse in Ladyhawke was a Friesian.

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The new Captain of the Guard rode an Andalusian

[csziggy]

20. That movie pretty much introduced Friesians to the world - it was great!

But the black the girl is riding along the shore is not a Friesian - it does not have the feathers (hair) on the lower legs or the incredible gaits of a Friesian.

[Bayard]

22. It was an exceedly cool movie for many reasons

No, the horse the girl is riding at the shoreline at the end of that video is definitely not a Friesian.

[Tanuki]

21. There is a Friesian breeding farm here in middle Tennessee.

You might be interested in seeing more of these beautiful horses (including two adorable newborn colts) in action in this feature about the farm from the Public Televsion program Tennessee Crossroads:

http://tennesseecrossroads.org/program-info/?selected_segment=foothill-friesians

[Bayard]

23. Love da babies!

Thanks for posting!

And thank you Packman for starting a delightful discussion that does not involve the horrors of politics....

[MLAA]

29. Thanks for posting, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[A HERETIC I AM]

24. How about this magnificent animal?

[Bayard]

25. Handsome, and HUGE!

[Irish_Dem]

26. I miss Sassy, even if her owner is a horse's ass. nt

[Afromania]

27. Very pretty, how much litter would I need:)

[cilla4progress]

28. Gorgeous animal!

What the heck with the shoes, though?

Why oh WHY?!

[DBoon]

30. a horse is a horse

Of course of course

[bullsnarfle]

31. (I forget who said it)----

Used to be that just about everyone had a horse, but only the rich could afford a car. Now everyone has a car, but only the rich can afford a horse.

[AllaN01Bear]

32. ohm myy

wonder if he or she is a neigh sayer?

[Jaco]

33. Gorgeous!