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Mahubah Breeder's Cup Winner

Joined: 16 Sep 2004 Posts: 2132 Location: Lake City, Florida
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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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Hard Tack was inbred 3x2 to *Rock Sand, so he was even closer to the same sources of difficult temperament than War Relic. _________________ "A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher...You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse." C. S. Lewis |
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Barbaro06 Grade I Winner

Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 1680 Location: Virginia
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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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Holey moley about Display sometimes having chains on his feet! Yikes!!! _________________ A horse gallops with his lungs
Perseveres with his heart
And wins with his character. --Tesio |
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Tappiano Grade III Winner
Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 1095
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:25 am Post subject: |
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I saw Foolish Pleasure in 1991, he was in the back of his stall and I was able to enter and quickly take his picture.
Reference Point, who stood at Dalham was a perfect gentleman most of the year but something would happen and he'd become a savage beast the rest of it. Then it would stop and without warning start again. He really hurt one of the grooms.
Marshua's Dancer had to have planks between his pasture and his neighbors (he didn't have anyone on the left side) or if he could see another stud he'd jump out and go after him.
I had heard Secreto could be temperamental too, but when I saw him at Calumet he had his head over the fence, ears pricked.
Alleged was another one who was mean, but I'm not sure if he mellowed with age. |
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judi Allowance Winner
Joined: 16 Sep 2004 Posts: 311
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:23 am Post subject: |
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| Noor was reputed to be vicious. |
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SlewCrew Weanling
Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Posts: 28
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:38 am Post subject: |
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| Tappiano wrote: | I saw Foolish Pleasure in 1991, he was in the back of his stall and I was able to enter and quickly take his picture.
Reference Point, who stood at Dalham was a perfect gentleman most of the year but something would happen and he'd become a savage beast the rest of it. Then it would stop and without warning start again. He really hurt one of the grooms.
Marshua's Dancer had to have planks between his pasture and his neighbors (he didn't have anyone on the left side) or if he could see another stud he'd jump out and go after him.
I had heard Secreto could be temperamental too, but when I saw him at Calumet he had his head over the fence, ears pricked.
Alleged was another one who was mean, but I'm not sure if he mellowed with age. | I worked with Marshua for seven years at Spendthrift and he was a gem.Native Royalty and Foolish Pleasure were tuff,but we had no one there who jumped fences.There was that horse at Old Frankfort...Premiereship?Heard he would jump out or run through to get to another horse. |
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Tappiano Grade III Winner
Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 1095
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:46 am Post subject: |
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| That surprises me because I saw him out in his paddock and asked why there were boards at the back and one side and that's what they told me. There was an open space on the other side and at the front of the paddock, and I'm trying to remember who was his next door neighbor. Maybe he just didn't like that horse. His paddock was more towards the front of where all the paddocks were and I believe on the other side was where Manastash Ridge, Time for a Change and J.O. Tobin were. |
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winds Grade I Winner

Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Posts: 1746 Location: Pennsylvania
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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Cormorant was easy to work with, however, out in his paddock watch out. If you dared go in with him he'd run you over and try to do some serious harm. He hated having horses next to him, they built a special paddock for him with 10 foot solid fences so he couldn't see Go and Go next to him. You still couldn't turn them out together because Cormorant would kick the boards to try to get to him.
In his stall he'd stick out his tongue and would go into a trance if you would hold it or stroke it. You could just about operate on him then. He is a neat horse....
winds _________________ "Always The Horse "
http://stablewindthoroughbred.blogspot.com/ |
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erins isle Restricted Stakes Winner
Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 836 Location: The basement of Europe
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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Many years ago we had Bold Tack, a son of Bold Ruler out of a daughter of Hard Tack, great sprinter. Although he was a gelding he was really mean. _________________ The more I get to know people, the more I love animals. |
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Karie Grade III Winner

Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1143 Location: Livonia, Michigan
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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the Bold Rukus Line is known for being nasty...
and not sure if he was mentioned.. Devil's Bag..
NASTY. _________________ Perfect Circle |
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Jenny Restricted Stakes Winner

Joined: 04 Feb 2007 Posts: 801 Location: Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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| A local stallion in Ontario called Afleets Dancer savaged his owner. How I heard to story was that the owner went to get him out of his paddock and he attacked the owner had him pinned on the ground and the farrier showed up and drove his truck threw the fence toward to stallion to get him off. The owner was quite badly injured and hospitalized. Afleets Dancer was euthanized after that. |
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Skipitgirl Restricted Stakes Winner
Joined: 16 Sep 2004 Posts: 904 Location: Ohio
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| We had a stallion for 1 year who was vicious. I sold him to a vet for sporthorse breeding. I thought she could handle him. One day while walking past his stall (she had half doors) she turned and looked at him, reached to pet him and he grabbed her entire face in his mough and flung her across the barn aisle. The outcome was 248 stitches, 2 fractured orbits, a fractured jaw and a reattached nose. He got the death penalty. |
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kezeli Allowance Winner
Joined: 14 Jun 2005 Posts: 362
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Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:08 am Post subject: |
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That reminded me of Reggie, Don't know his registered name, doesn't matter though, he was a gelding. Anyway this shit went after everybody that walked by, we had all asked the owner/exercise girl to put up a full screen but she would not. The jerk grabed her by the breast one day and lifted her about 2 feet off the ground, held her a few seconds then droped her. Do you know the ignorant bitch still wouldn't put up the full screen :evil:
This is really fun/informative but isn't there a book somewhere?? |
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Daisy Jal Dastur Allowance Winner
Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 424 Location: Toronto
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Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Mood Swings wrote: | | A Fleet's Dancer was recently euthanized after savagely attacking someone.... |
Really!! I hadn't heard.... I remeber when once of my horses (Ruxsh) was stabled next to A Fleet's Dancer.... Ruxsh was a bundle of joy to play with, but A Fleet's Dancer would always have this fiery look in his eyes... I always steered clear of him! |
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Derring Starters Handicap

Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 563
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:34 am Post subject: |
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| kezeli wrote: | That reminded me of Reggie, Don't know his registered name, doesn't matter though, he was a gelding. Anyway this shit went after everybody that walked by, we had all asked the owner/exercise girl to put up a full screen but she would not. The jerk grabed her by the breast one day and lifted her about 2 feet off the ground, held her a few seconds then droped her. Do you know the ignorant bitch still wouldn't put up the full screen
This is really fun/informative but isn't there a book somewhere?? |
The meanest horse I had to deal with was a gelding (the stallions were decent). That gelding was a real sneaky little bastard......smart too. _________________ "Animals are such agreeable friends--they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
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Still Dreaming Maiden Special Weight

Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 135 Location: Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy
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| Mahubah wrote: | | I remember reading elsewhere about Bull Hancock subduing *Nasrullah with a broom handle, but it couldn't have been at age 27 because *Nasrullah only lived to be 19 (1940-1959). |
Damn Jane Smiley and her inaccurate statistics!
Kind of off topic, but this summer I rode a black TB/percheron mare named Dutchess who had a dangerous personality quirk. She loved people and in that respect was one of the kindest, sweetest horses I've ever had the pleasure of knowing. Also a beautiful mover and a gifted jumper. However, she couldn't STAND other horses, especially small ones. Apparently, she once cantered backwards five strides to try and kick a pony.
I do so love Von Dutch, though. She lives in Pennsylvania, and here I sit like a lump on a log in Connecticut.  _________________ It is a sobering thought, for instance, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
-TOM LEHRER |
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