For any horse people staring at this in the mild distress of “they’re badly photoshopping show photos now too??” – and to stop the reblogs going any further –
It’s not a real horse
It’s the sims
Not you thinking people reblog this because they think it’s a real horse and not because it’s a gorgeous sims horse lmfao
I'm not a horse person, so I might be missing something, but why are people breeding horses? Dog people are either super into breeds, and get dogs from a breeder, or fall into the "adopt don't shop" camp. Is there a similar movement in horselandia? If not, why do you think there isn't? Why do people think that they have the skills to breed an expensive, delicate animal?
Honestly I think the problem is that most horse owners think they’re horse experts. This is false.
Backyard breeding happens for either fun or profit. It’s usually either a personal project because you have a mare you love, or you have a mare with an empty uterus that you think you can monetize by investing in semen from whatever breed or color is trendiest. You can buy, say, a fugly unbroken $300 bay paint mare and straws from, say, a mid but cremello PRE stud and in a year you could list a buckskin Iberian Warmblood foal with spots for $30k, and selling it at that price point is absolutely possible no matter how it turns out in terms of conformation because many horse people have much more money than sense and no idea what to look for. People are blinded by color genes and keywords. Many such cases.
There’s a definite stigma around rescues in some circles as well, especially if it’s a retired racehorse or their lineage isn’t known. A lot of people will assume there’s something wrong with it or you couldn’t afford better. I’ve seen both Standardbreds and TBs called “poor man’s warmbloods” because nice ones can, uh, function like a warmblood for a fraction of the price, and this is bad somehow. Price absolutely does not equal quality, it’s totally possible to adopt a really nice horse that will make you happy for almost no money, and Horselandia continues to run on nonsense at all levels.
Anonymous said: my wife loves horses and i think they're the dumbest, ugliest, most unintelligent animals on the planet. how can i convince her to not buy a horse?
And so she found herself astride on another midnight black stallion, several years after her soulmate had retired from showing. They were each others’ complete opposites; where he was grouchy, Capri was kind. Where he was demanding, Capri was lenient. Where he was strong, Capri was gentle. Yet they both gave Iris that indescribable, unsurmountable feeling in the saddle. She hadn’t found him in any other horse before, until now. She experienced a mixture of melancholy and euphoria when they were about to enter their first international show together, as her memories of someone so different yet so alike, blended in with what was yet to come. Even though this was a big moment for the two of them, her mind still couldn’t grasp the earlier events of the day, it all came back to her in dizzying glimpses; surprise, anger, confusion … Her name sounded in the speakers and she came out of her haze as she spun her head around and briefly locked eyes with the source of all the chaos in her mind. She gently shook her head, took a deep breath and put all her focus back on Capri; on the bubbly texture of the rubber reins in her hands, of how the sun glistened against his neck, the squeaking sound of a saddle she had sat in so many times before on a different dark horse. She softly nudged the black stallion, ears pricked forward, and entered the Monte Carlo show jumping arena together; for the first time.
Everyone meet our newcomer to our stables; CT Great Contender (out of the legendary stallion Great London and powermare CT Chadino Z). We decided to take a leap of faith and bring Capri to Monaco for his first international show after two years of being out competing in the lower classes and getting used to bigger show environments, and it seems to have gone fairly well as he managed to bring home a first place ribbon! Thank you to @calveroterranorasj for trusting me with this beautiful boy <3
i love having adult horse girl friends. I’ll send them a 100x100px crunchy ass jpeg of a random brown horse and be like “thought of u🐴” and I can literally feel their sims relationship bar fill up in real time
