Hansen Sold to South Korea

Kelly Kip
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Tue Jun 24, 2014 6:18 pm

Private Thoughts wrote:That's an awfully large chain for a horse. Looks like something I might use to pull a stump out of the ground on the farm.
Why don't you send them an "Approved by Private Thoughts" stud shank, then? I'm sure they'll appreciate it! :roll:
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Tue Jun 24, 2014 7:29 pm

Catalina wrote:
Private Thoughts wrote:Could care less how long the chain is, that chain is too darn heavy for a horse. Really, they need tow chain weight shanks for a stallion? If so then they are not much of a horseman. And that horse looks like he has been scuffed in the face, pretty badly.

I have worked with horses with balls still attached as well. Most were better behaved than some of the mares, some not very nice at all. But I never had to beat them or shank the shit out of them to get them to comply. If you get in a fight with a 1200 lb animal you will come out on the loosing end every time. I have also seen alot of abuse in my days, one of the reasons I no longer work in the industry.

This horse looks like crap in that picture. Google images of him. I don't see any marks on his face and his body language looks different.

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Thank you. Couldn't have said it better.
That's actually probably very true.
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Tue Jun 24, 2014 7:38 pm

Unless you guys think somehow magically that chain managed to reach up between his eyes, the scuffs are probably from his trip to Korea. For all we know, he flipped out on the flight.

The picture is for the stud book, not advertisements. So it's a photo done when he first arrived.

IMO, thin chains hurt far more than thick chains. Same goes for snake collars in dogs. Thinner = harsher.
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Tue Jun 24, 2014 8:17 pm

Life At Zen wrote:Unless you guys think somehow magically that chain managed to reach up between his eyes, the scuffs are probably from his trip to Korea. For all we know, he flipped out on the flight.

The picture is for the stud book, not advertisements. So it's a photo done when he first arrived.

IMO, thin chains hurt far more than thick chains. Same goes for snake collars in dogs. Thinner = harsher.
This. The amount of assumptions that can be made and wisdom that can be shed on a horse people have never handled just through the use of one photo is pretty outstanding :roll:. Given the amount of money that would have been exchanged in order for Coolmore to sell the horse after one season, I don't think they're exactly leading him around with a barbed-wire shank and bedding him with shards of glass.

Korea is one of the only countries in the world in which horse racing is on the rise. Elsewhere, thoroughbred related organizations are shutting down, struggling for funding, and desperate to reach new fans. They didn't just fall off the turnip truck and decide to blow money on pretty ponies. Believe it or not, they know what they are doing.
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Wed Jun 25, 2014 7:47 am

serenassong wrote:Just wondering how long after his quarantine that pic was taken? Some horses really stress thru the process and it shows- something could have happened on the trip over as well.

Should have clarified, I was referring to the stud book pic, not the pic of him in the stall. I have seen pics of horses just out of quarantine, and some look awful.
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Wed Jun 25, 2014 8:53 am

Northport wrote:This. The amount of assumptions that can be made and wisdom that can be shed on a horse people have never handled just through the use of one photo is pretty outstanding :roll:. Given the amount of money that would have been exchanged in order for Coolmore to sell the horse after one season, I don't think they're exactly leading him around with a barbed-wire shank and bedding him with shards of glass.
Bingo. I would never presume to be right based off ONE photo. And a horse I'm never even around.

You would think America treats its horses with such reverence for the people that get uppity when they're shipped off abroad.
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Wed Jun 25, 2014 12:03 pm

That pic is old... Taken when he arrived in Korea.
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Wed Jun 25, 2014 11:59 pm

Private Thoughts wrote:Could care less how long the chain is, that chain is too darn heavy for a horse. Really, they need tow chain weight shanks for a stallion? If so then they are not much of a horseman. And that horse looks like he has been scuffed in the face, pretty badly.

I have worked with horses with balls still attached as well. Most were better behaved than some of the mares, some not very nice at all. But I never had to beat them or shank the shit out of them to get them to comply. If you get in a fight with a 1200 lb animal you will come out on the loosing end every time. I have also seen alot of abuse in my days, one of the reasons I no longer work in the industry.

This horse looks like crap in that picture. Google images of him. I don't see any marks on his face and his body language looks different.
You are freakin kidding, right? Does this type of thing happen here as well? Was Hansen known to be a difficult horse?
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Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:02 am

Northport wrote:
Life At Zen wrote:Unless you guys think somehow magically that chain managed to reach up between his eyes, the scuffs are probably from his trip to Korea. For all we know, he flipped out on the flight.

The picture is for the stud book, not advertisements. So it's a photo done when he first arrived.

IMO, thin chains hurt far more than thick chains. Same goes for snake collars in dogs. Thinner = harsher.
This. The amount of assumptions that can be made and wisdom that can be shed on a horse people have never handled just through the use of one photo is pretty outstanding :roll:. Given the amount of money that would have been exchanged in order for Coolmore to sell the horse after one season, I don't think they're exactly leading him around with a barbed-wire shank and bedding him with shards of glass.

Korea is one of the only countries in the world in which horse racing is on the rise. Elsewhere, thoroughbred related organizations are shutting down, struggling for funding, and desperate to reach new fans. They didn't just fall off the turnip truck and decide to blow money on pretty ponies. Believe it or not, they know what they are doing.
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Wed Jul 02, 2014 7:31 pm

EquineAnne wrote:
Northport wrote:
Life At Zen wrote:Unless you guys think somehow magically that chain managed to reach up between his eyes, the scuffs are probably from his trip to Korea. For all we know, he flipped out on the flight.

The picture is for the stud book, not advertisements. So it's a photo done when he first arrived.

IMO, thin chains hurt far more than thick chains. Same goes for snake collars in dogs. Thinner = harsher.
This. The amount of assumptions that can be made and wisdom that can be shed on a horse people have never handled just through the use of one photo is pretty outstanding :roll:. Given the amount of money that would have been exchanged in order for Coolmore to sell the horse after one season, I don't think they're exactly leading him around with a barbed-wire shank and bedding him with shards of glass.

Korea is one of the only countries in the world in which horse racing is on the rise. Elsewhere, thoroughbred related organizations are shutting down, struggling for funding, and desperate to reach new fans. They didn't just fall off the turnip truck and decide to blow money on pretty ponies. Believe it or not, they know what they are doing.
Thank you.
I think, they think they know what they are doing. And just because horse racing is failing, under their own stupidity elsewhere, doesn't mean they do know what they are doing when it comes to the horses.
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Thu Jul 03, 2014 3:00 am

neither do some of us. reading what other people do on forums doesnt make us experts. i'll trust the people who are around him every day to make decisions before any of us, who are not around him. i'm sure he wasn't cheap, they wouldnt put up that kind of money to treat him poorly.
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