In case you were wondering, the Thoroughbred hunter is not dead. These pictures are of a OTTB that showed in the hunters in San Antonio this past weekend. If you have deep pockets and want the most classically beautiful hunter I’ve seen in a while, he’s for sale. Someone buy him so I can read your blog about him. For now, I’ll just admire my pictures and hope I stumble on to one of these one day!
I admire blogger’s who puts controversial topics out there, because it’s something I do myself a lot. I also respect the following blog, but I really disagree with the case against the OTTB from Sprinkler Bandit last week. Now before I write my rebuttal, I want to place a few caveats to the following. A) I have potentially the world’s safest OTTB. I admit this. I am no star rider, and Simon makes up for my flaws in so many ways….
I’m not a huge COTH forums poster, but I do browse it several times a week. One day I stumbled on a thread that essentially said; “OTTB is not a breed. Thoroughbred is a breed. It annoys me when someone uses OTTB as if it were their horse’s breed.” Reading this, it occurred to me that I am one of those people. And why not? I like the “OTTB” label. It’s kind of like being in a club where horse…