Horse Classifieds DEFINITIONS!
- Event Prospect: Big, fast horse
- Dressage Prospect: Big, slow horse
- Pleasure Prospect: Pretty color
- Sporting Prospect: Short, fast horse
- Barrel Prospect: Fast horse which can turn
- Endurance Prospect: Fast horse which will turn sometimes
- Flashy: White sock
- 15'2" hh: 14'3" hh
- 16'2" hh: 15'3" hh
- Big trot: Can't canter within a two-mile straightaway
- Nicely Started: Longes, but we don't have enough insurance to ride him yet
- Bold: Runaway
- Good Mover: Runaway
- Atheletic: Runaway
- Quiet: Lame in both front legs
- Dead Quiet: Lame in all four legs
- Good in Traffic (Bombproof): Lame all around, deaf, and blind
- Pony type: Small and hairy
- Arab Type: Looks startled
- Thoroughbred Type: Looks terrified
- Quarter Horse Type: Fat
- Easy to catch: Dead
- Elegant: Thin
- Black: Brown and/or dirty
- Well-Mannered: Hasn't stepped on, run over, bit, or kicked anyone for a week
- Professionally Trained: Hasn't stepped on, run over, bit, or kicked anyone for a month
- Clips, Hauls, Loads: Clippity Clippity is the sound his hooves make as he hauls butt across the parking lot when you try to load him.
- Should Mature 16 hands: Currently 14 hands, dam is 14'2, sire is 14'3, every horse in his pedigree back 18 generations is under 15 hands, but this horse will defy his DNA and grow.
- To Loving Home Only: Expensive
- To Show Home Only: Very Expensive
- To Good Home Only: Not really for sale unless you can 1) Pay twice what he is worth 2) are willing to sign a 10 page legal document alowing current owner to tuck in beddy-bye every night
- For Sale Due to lack of Time: Rider cannot afford to spend any more time in the hospital
- Any Vet Check Welcome: Please pay for us to find out what the !@#$ is wrong with him!
- Recently Vetted: Someone else found something really wrong with this horse.
- Must Sell: Wife has left home and taken kids
- Al Offers Considered: I am in traction for 6 months
Thanks to the posters on the Pleasure Horse Journal Forum for their input!
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