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The Throughbred Hunter

The Throughbred Hunter

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!

The Case for the OTTB

The Case for the OTTB

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….

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OTTB vs Thoroughbred

OTTB vs Thoroughbred

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…

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