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Legends
Legends, Volume 6 profiles outstanding Quarter Horse stallions that have had a significant impact on the breed. These horses and their progeny have dominated several disciplines, including racing, halter, western pleasure, cutting, reining, working cow horse, and barrel racing. Their influence on the breed continues, especially through their exceptional sons and daughters.
This volume, as the others, highlights each horse with a story on its life, a four-generation pedigree, a summary of his race and/or show record, and a sire record and many photographs--some of which have never been seen.
This volume, as the others, highlights each horse with a story on its life, a four-generation pedigree, a summary of his race and/or show record, and a sire record and many photographs--some of which have never been seen.
236 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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March 17, 2026
I'm glad I read Volume 7 before reading this, since Vol. 6 is one of, if not the worst volume in the popular series from Western Horseman Publications. The three main problems are typos, uninspired writing, and celebrating horses and horsemen that really shouldn't have been swimming in the gene pool. If you haven't read any of the other volumes, don't start with this one.
This is the worst volume in terms of typos. Granted, all publications are going to have typos. But this was at least one boner per chapter, which is far more than the other 6 volumes of this series that I've read. The last chapter alone had at least four. Typos weren't just misspellings or punctuation errors (athough they abounded, too) but also had errors in:
* Names of horses. For example, Glowmaker was also spelled Glow Maker. In the horse world, even the slightest of spellings or spaces can mean the difference between two different horses.
* Elementary grammatical errors, such as using "more than" or "almost" before earnings already given down to the cent. How much different could the earnings have been?
* Sometimes, captions or highlight boxes didn't agree with the text.
* Whenever a person is introduced in an article, the person's city and state are also given. At one time, "city, state" was used ... instead of the city and state. A writer did a placeholder and then forgot to update the information.
In any anthology, some writers ard going to be better than others. However, very few of the writers seemed interested in doing anything other than toeing the party line. One stallion died from being denied water by the horsesitter when the owners were on vacation. I want to know what happened to the horsesitter. Did he/she/it get away with murder? Why don't these writers ask these kinds of obvious questions? Another stallion died with no cause of death given. Just dead. All of the other horses in all the volumes have a cause of death listed, unless it was unknown, and then the writer would explicitly state that the cause was unknown. It's a head-scratcher.
And then there were two stallions who never should've been included, since they had physical and genetic problems that really should not have been passed on. Conclusive was a son of Impressive, known to be a main source of a potentially lethal genetic disorder HYPP. When this book was published in 2004, it was well known that the Impressive line contained this disease. HYPP is never mentioned in the chapter.
And Dynamic Deluxe had very poor conformation. He's even described as having poor conformation. He was described as being physically unable to lift his head above his withers. His poor conformation gave him a smooth lope (canter) that won favor in the eyes of Western Pleasure judges.
One stallion got a reputation for being ill-tempered after being confined to his stall with an illness. The new owner said that after the stallion "went for me" on the second day, "I corrected him once" and get behaved ever since. In other words, he either beat the spirit out of the stud, or made sure to dope him whenever the stud's owner had human visitors.
Another owner said his stallion wasn't allowed to vocalize to mares on the property unless he was led go a certain location. A horse not being allowed to be a horse?
I'm really disgusted with the Quarter Horse industry now. I never really had much respect for it before, but JEEZUS.
This is the worst volume in terms of typos. Granted, all publications are going to have typos. But this was at least one boner per chapter, which is far more than the other 6 volumes of this series that I've read. The last chapter alone had at least four. Typos weren't just misspellings or punctuation errors (athough they abounded, too) but also had errors in:
* Names of horses. For example, Glowmaker was also spelled Glow Maker. In the horse world, even the slightest of spellings or spaces can mean the difference between two different horses.
* Elementary grammatical errors, such as using "more than" or "almost" before earnings already given down to the cent. How much different could the earnings have been?
* Sometimes, captions or highlight boxes didn't agree with the text.
* Whenever a person is introduced in an article, the person's city and state are also given. At one time, "city, state" was used ... instead of the city and state. A writer did a placeholder and then forgot to update the information.
In any anthology, some writers ard going to be better than others. However, very few of the writers seemed interested in doing anything other than toeing the party line. One stallion died from being denied water by the horsesitter when the owners were on vacation. I want to know what happened to the horsesitter. Did he/she/it get away with murder? Why don't these writers ask these kinds of obvious questions? Another stallion died with no cause of death given. Just dead. All of the other horses in all the volumes have a cause of death listed, unless it was unknown, and then the writer would explicitly state that the cause was unknown. It's a head-scratcher.
And then there were two stallions who never should've been included, since they had physical and genetic problems that really should not have been passed on. Conclusive was a son of Impressive, known to be a main source of a potentially lethal genetic disorder HYPP. When this book was published in 2004, it was well known that the Impressive line contained this disease. HYPP is never mentioned in the chapter.
And Dynamic Deluxe had very poor conformation. He's even described as having poor conformation. He was described as being physically unable to lift his head above his withers. His poor conformation gave him a smooth lope (canter) that won favor in the eyes of Western Pleasure judges.
One stallion got a reputation for being ill-tempered after being confined to his stall with an illness. The new owner said that after the stallion "went for me" on the second day, "I corrected him once" and get behaved ever since. In other words, he either beat the spirit out of the stud, or made sure to dope him whenever the stud's owner had human visitors.
Another owner said his stallion wasn't allowed to vocalize to mares on the property unless he was led go a certain location. A horse not being allowed to be a horse?
I'm really disgusted with the Quarter Horse industry now. I never really had much respect for it before, but JEEZUS.
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