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KC Quarter Horses

Gee .....I must be on a different planet. I thought an OTTB was a discription for a TB that raced rather than a TB that didn't race.

So I therefore thought that it was always an OTTB LOL ......along with many other things it may become or is.

It did not even occur to me that being an OTTB was an excuse for anything .... a horse has different levels of education & an OTTB may have a few racing issues that a non OTTB may not have ....but at the end of the day it down to education.

Our OTTB's are just TB's to us .....with one who occasionaly has flash backs LOL..... & thinks its race time LMAO

My ignorance on OTTB's is showing through LMAO

Caroline

As the old saying goes, "You can take the horse off the track but you cant take the track out of the horse!"

The more highly raced, the more instilled the programing is.

Every horse is individual.

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morris

I love Dusty Road's description.

Temperment, experiences, education, rider/handler. So true.

Wendycam1

I like the idea that my boy raced and did reasonably well in his short race career. He won about 4 races and to me it says he has a big heart and is competitive. He succeeded in what he was trained for.

He has been off the track for 4.5 years and is now re-training to be a dressage horse. We have had alot of race day 'flashback' moments and on the odd occassion still do, but that is what makes him a thoroughbred. I think of him to be rather intelligent to be training in a completly different discipline.
He is doing very well at his dressage 'at the moment' so I think he deserves the title of dressage horse not ottt.

Someone once told me a t/b doesn't grow a brain until they are 9-10 years old. I think they have already grown the brain at a young age, they just have to learn how to use it in a different direction to what they have been bred for. A cattle dog will always want to round something up, a t/b will always want to run and be highly strung untill they are taught otherwise.

I love my very 'forward' thoroughbred dressage horse.

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"My Horse is my best Buddy". He keeps everything real....

Webby

Im from the school horse is nameed on its current occupation, so the second it retires from a race horse it becomes a OTTB, but then as soon as it finishes its spell nd gets a new career it looses that title.
My horse has been a race horse, an OTTB, a farm boy, a hack, an eventer and is now simply a FAT BROWN atm. Might go dressage pony neext LOL If it does many diciplines then i call it a performance pony. I do have a habit of calling 17hh horses ponies though - My bad


oh and i just love this one-

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holistichorse

I've always liked to think when people use that description that they are describing their "Over The Top" Thoroughbred rather than their "Off The Track" TB!!! Some of my calmest horses raced!! In fact I ride out in the bush with a couple of "in training" racehorses at the moment and they are excellent!!!
People just use it as an excuse for other behavior they can't manage!!

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misskel

Totally agree with holistichorse on this one. They are off the track when they walk off that track for the last time imo and thats it. Then they should be described as a newcomer or a young horse or a baby. As soon as you say "Oh its off the track" people start saying how much trouble they have had with theirs. Its not fair. I've only had one bad experience and that was last week. (oh and he never made it to the track lol)
Go the TB!!!!

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I cant wait to train a winner!!!

Webby

I too believe TB's that haven't raced are generally spookier, I love every inch of my boys, and i think there racing career has benifited them and made them a better horse, they already seen half the world. But then i guess I have hd the privillige of knowing inside out how they were raced. One has "blue sky syndrom" out on the cross country course but that has nothing to do with racing as he is far quieter when take him back to the track. He just loves a good gallop as to most every know and again. Only times i ever curse it is on the over raced ones that have had soundness issues never tempermant.

I judge each horse on its own merits, go the TB's some of there Temps are second to none.

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