I just read in magazine that he is a 100%Quarter but for too much white couldn't be registered with AQHA for a long time. A lot of people don't know that he is deaf. I love the way he looks around and then he says "yes I'm ready". It is amazing horse. What a story behind this horse........love him.
What a cutie. Stops are nice, rollbacks good, spins brilliant. I would like to see him plant his foot a little more on the spin (he picked it up a few times and moved) but overrall I am impressed. Nice to see some color in the reining arena ;)
When he's looking at his rider he's doing what is called "flexing" it's a basic move most people do when first getting on their horse, to see how responsive they're being. It's kind of a little test to see how much horse you have under you that day. If he's going to behave etc. He's not being naughty, he's just doing as he's been taught.
@FueledByDeisel Actually this particaular type of riding is called neck reining. It stays out of the horses neck and makes a very small movement so it may seem like the rider has no contact but actually he has as much contact with the horse as it he were in the horses mouth. Also there's things called leg signals. Keft thigh into horse, he turns left, right, you see what im getting at, it's a diffrent communication thatn in the horses mouth.
I don't think he's fidgety. He's just looking at who's on his back. The way he does it makes me think that he's an affectionate, curious horse. It's almost as though he's saying, "You doing okay up there?"
reining is western dressage, reining is more humane then dressage, i have an old dressage horse and my closest friend is a reiner and they own MorningStar Performance horses her mom is Nadine Galbraith
@quarterhorseluver die Quarter-Stute, die ich reite, macht das auch immer (: und eigentlich find ich es ganz niedlich. ich denk nicht, dass der Paint aus diesem Video irgendwie aufgekratzt oder ähnliches ist. "You doing okay up there" trifft es wohl am Besten ;)!
The deafness is caused by the splashed white gene. This happens when the inner ear is depigmented melanocytes (cells responsible for creating melanin) are missing causing the death of the hair cells.
Nice horse you have!! Superb!! Go Paints, rule the Reining World!! Whoaa........... Greetings Kor The Netherlands Its your own breed or inported fome the USA? See allso my movies from Gunner.......
Woops! I also meant to say that he was first registered as a paint because AQHA wouldn't accept him because of his white markings, but when he won some big reining shows they finally accepted him
@SelmerLibertyOwner: Deafness is not rare in horses. I know 5 horses right now with the same pie bald markings as him that are deaf. Now this is not complete deafness but they do not hear as well as a normal horse would. As for the white over the ears, I have never met a horse with a reverse medicine hat that was deaf or partialy deaf. As for his markings - he is overo - legs and face signafy for that.
@barrelsnpleasure No, he is actually splashed. Overo means there is white on the belly. He has no white on the belly. Look on the APHA website, it explains a lot about the different types of pinto colors. As for deafness, if the horse were a Paint with white ears, there is a chance he may be deaf. Since Gunners ears are not white, why would he be deaf?
