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Post by gespenst, FIN (admin) on Apr 22, 2011 6:54:34 GMT
I'm just wondering here do people abroad write descriptions of their horses pedigrees. It's a kind of a fashion here in Finland, and commonly seen, because we can get points with it when evaluated the whole horse, texts, results, everything. But I hate to write them ;D Does anybody else in the whole world "need" to write explanations of their horse's pedigree on the horse's page? Is there even those kinds of evaluations abroad which examine the character, other texts, competition results etc and not just photos? Or are we just strange and complicated  |
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Post by stogadis (GER) on Apr 22, 2011 8:40:18 GMT
No we also have evaluations where character, competition results and so on count. Actually i don´t know any evaluation in germany were ONLY the photos count.
But we don´t necessarily have texts about the pedigrees. We often try to link the horses character with some information, like "same as her father, she is very...." or stuff.
But we only do this for bred horses, so where virtual parents actually exist not for created horses with madeup-pedigree or real horses in there pedigree.
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Post by gespenst, FIN (admin) on Apr 22, 2011 8:58:45 GMT
Interesting - we have it usually the other way round, that mostly the made-up horses, because the information of the pedigree of horses with existing family is usually found from the links of the horses in the pedigree.
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Post by Lin Ryder (SWE) on Apr 22, 2011 9:21:50 GMT
We don't really have to write about the pedigrees I believe. I don't show much in Sweden, but as far as I can tell we don't have to. Neither do they have to in the US I think. It helps of course but it's not necessary.
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Post by chilli [GER] on Apr 22, 2011 11:00:24 GMT
As stogadis wrote Germans don't have to. Some mention the ancestors like "xy looks like its father/mother" or "like its father/mother xy is a good showjumper" but it's not a must.
I like it when you get to know a bit about the parents but not in the way that the horse is reduced to its pedigree, like many young stallions or broodmares in reality.
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Post by Tessa {USA} on Apr 22, 2011 13:09:53 GMT
In the American SIM's it's not really a common thing. If people decide to write up a personality, they'll usually add something about the sire and the dam to it, but they don't usually do the separate about the dam and sire things.
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Post by nanni (AT) on Apr 22, 2011 13:32:52 GMT
The only thing some german stables add to the pedigree are the fur colors of the parents/grand parents/..., because this helps breeders with finding a genetic logical color of a breeded foal  In evaluations there were mostly noticed with known/unknown (if the names are not mendtioned in the horse's profile), a few years ago the horses got extra points for linked pedigree... I think nowadays thats not common anymore. |
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Post by Amanda [USA] on Apr 23, 2011 19:47:06 GMT
I like writing pedigree descriptions for my Irish Sport Horses and Irish Draughts because I spend a lot of time researching their pedigrees, and not many people know much about the lines. I talk about the accomplishments, both competitively and in terms of breeding, of both the sire and dam, and usually at least a few of the grandsires. When a horse has a really well known breeding stallion or dam in their lines, I like to talk about that, and how all the success leads to my Sim horse's talent, ability, breeding prospects, etc.
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Post by gespenst, FIN (admin) on Apr 23, 2011 20:32:21 GMT
Amanda, that's interesting to hear (:
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Post by Thestral on Apr 23, 2011 21:19:02 GMT
It doesn't effect the evaluations in any way so people aren't "required" to do it, but it happens. I think it's insanely boring to write them but still find it interesting to read with other peoples horses, so I usually try to throw together a few sentences when I have the time and motivation.
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