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  • #21
    Looks like a Standardbred to me too!
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    • #22
      Yeah, I also thought Standard-"head" as soon as I opened the picture. Standardbreds are awesome horses!
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        #23
        He's not Eddie. He doesn't have a blaze and only has a small white patch above outside hind right.
        He doesn't have a tattoo or brand of any kind.
        From our little ride today he is complete dead sided, does not know directions and does not move out. I was lucky to get him to walk let alone trot. He has very good ground manners. Stands to be tacked and mounted but knows very very little under saddle. He is very careful about foot placement and does not touch ground poles. If he was a trail horse in the past he obviously just followed another horse around.

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        • #24
          My son says it's obvious - he's a pet!! Of course, we have our own "moose", but we know he is an OTTB....

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          • #25
            I bet he's a TB/Percheron cross. And I wonder if he is from the same breeder that I bought from several years ago who bought greenies from a from farm in Ontario, Canada.

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            • #26
              No idea as to breeding, but if you are looking for a name - we have a "clompety clunker" locally who is called Sherman (built like a tank) - and I quite like that as a name.

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              • #27
                Looks like some sort of drafty type cross to me. Maybe Cleveland Bay, or Irish, or Perch.

                I think he would make a good "Stormin' Norman". He looks like a Norman to me.

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                • #28
                  Ethan Allen... the big compfy couch....

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                  • #29
                    Um, Ethan Allen was a Revolutionary, arms runner, hard-drinking, hard-fighting, hard-living man. Not a couch.

                    No, he didn't make furniture either.

                    BUT, he was a larger-than-life figure, a big tall man who captured forts in the dead of night with no bloodshed (stealth attack) but with demands of "Surrender this fort in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!" Or, he actually might have said "Roll out and give me the liquor, you damned scoundrel!" Maybe he even said both.

                    SO Ethan Allen is a great strong name no matter how you look at it.
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                    • #30
                      I am seeing STB all over that guy. Right down to the feet. He reminds me of Aristotle but hehehehehe Ari isnt 16.3, has a brand and is right close by LOL
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                      • #31
                        Originally posted by bearcombs View Post
                        I see draft, too - the short pasterns, moose-y head, and hindquarter all remind me of the draft cross I just sold. He's cute!

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                        • #32
                          he looks exactly like my Connemara/TB cross minus the white star that mine had. same head and everything.
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                          • #33
                            Another vote for Standardbred, here.
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                            • #34
                              I have a 3/4 TB 1/4 Perch cross. Doesn't look a lot like him. I don't see Perch in the croup. But you never know.

                              I'd call him Sam.

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                              • #35
                                I was going to say perch/tb cross but when I looked at the other pics I don't think his butt is big enough. The shot from behind shows him to be pretty narrow in the behind... could be standardbred cross.
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                                • #36
                                  Originally posted by Rienzi View Post
                                  Um, Ethan Allen was a Revolutionary, arms runner, hard-drinking, hard-fighting, hard-living man. Not a couch.

                                  No, he didn't make furniture either.

                                  BUT, he was a larger-than-life figure, a big tall man who captured forts in the dead of night with no bloodshed (stealth attack) but with demands of "Surrender this fort in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!" Or, he actually might have said "Roll out and give me the liquor, you damned scoundrel!" Maybe he even said both.

                                  SO Ethan Allen is a great strong name no matter how you look at it.

                                  ROFLMAO!!!

                                  we can go with that...I think

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                                  • #37
                                    That my dear is a big fuzzy bundle of love in the form of a beastie!
                                    He is gorgeous thanks for saving his life.
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                                    • #38
                                      COlour aside, from the ears back, he looks like good old WallKicker.......same body shape and build. The good ground manners, standing for being tacked, careful stepping and not knowing how to respond to being ridden says track training to me - you can climb on to almost any Standardbred at the track and gee haw them around with no problems and many of them do get ridden from the test barn to 'home'. Ruffle the hair on the right side of the neck and look for white hairs, if he is, indeed 6 and a Standardbred, there should be a freezebrand there, unfortunately, the brand sometimes becomes random white hairs in winter particularly on those that seem to be part yak...noticed on Race Night, they clip the branded area to make the brand more legible. At any rate, bet you could harness him and go for a nice drive....
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                                      • #39
                                        Pretty is as pretty does. :-)

                                        I'd say he's 1/2 Standardbred
                                        I saw the angel in the marble and I set him free. - Michaelangelo

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                                        • #40
                                          With that nose and look....go with something Roman....or old time like....

                                          Maybe

                                          Caradoc ... was a man of proud bearing who rebelled against Roman rule in the first century AD.

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