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In reply to the discussion: If you could live your life over again [View all]csziggy
(34,136 posts)The people now running the farm take care of them so they get good attention every day.
Most of the TBs we got to deal with while we were boarding other people's horses were off the track idiots. My old vet would always recommend that they be turned out to play for three to six months, then brought into training slowly so their bodies and minds could adjust. Most people didn't follow his advice and their TBs would end up with bone problems or the horses were geared to simply running full out. Bad outcomes for everyone.
That's why I appreciated my QHs. I bred horses that did everything from three day eventing to working cow horses with a lot of just pleasure/trail riding horses in between. The few nutcases I produced were sold off - some were just nuts from when they hit the ground and even with the same imprinting and ground handling they just were not right in the head. Over the six generations of horses I bred, I managed to breed out that problem.