{"id":77,"date":"2005-07-01T21:35:50","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T16:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=77"},"modified":"2005-07-01T21:39:49","modified_gmt":"2005-07-01T16:39:49","slug":"impressive-bred-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/trainers-corner\/impressive-bred-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressive-bred horses"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am considering buying a 4 year old mare for a barrel prospect. She has very good conformation, a nice big hip and gaskins (not overly obese as halter horses) a nice sloped shoulder with a long neck of medium thickness that ties in low on her chest. I really like the looks of her but it is her breeding I am concerned with. Everything on her papers I like except that she has some Impressive breeding……Even though the last Impressive link in her pedigree is N\/N I’m still concerned that I haven’t heard of any Impressive bred horses being successful in the barrel pen. I have also heard that their attitude and learning ability are not very desirable. The other breeding in her pedigree is as follows; —————top – Skipa Star (Skipper W & Oklahoma Star), Sheza Jag On (Jaguar, Three Bars, Leo)—————bottom – Impressive Redneck (Impressive, Chicory Chic), Ms Tidy Conquest (Vandy, Flicka Hancock, Tidy Quick, Tidy Leo). Based on the information I have provided and your experience, what do you think about this mare as a barrel prospect? She’s not yet broke, so I really can’t tell what her disposition will be. Thank you for your time,
\nDawn<\/strong><\/p>\n

I like the Leo and Oklahoma Star in the pedigree but not much else. I would be in question of how much speed this mare could have and though I’ve only ridden a couple of Impressive-bred horses, I was not impressed -excuse the pun – with their ability or brains. There is always an exception to the rule though.
\nMartha Wright<\/p>\n

There is a little more info on Impressive Bred horses click here<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ven though the last Impressive link in her pedigree is N\/N I’m still concerned that I haven’t heard of any Impressive bred horses being successful in the barrel pen. I have also heard that their attitude and learning ability are not very desirable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-trainers-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}