Stallion News

amfuller · Thu Nov 07, 2013 9:45 pm

Great video at Claiborne. Shows Pulpit, Arch, War Front, and Blame from 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djM4Ak6Ur2M

second_glance · Thu Nov 07, 2013 11:20 pm

Fast Bullet will stand at Pauls Mill for $7500

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... um=twitter

Flanders · Fri Nov 08, 2013 4:07 am

amfuller wrote:War Front seems like such a nice guy. He looks sooo little in this video, I wonder how tall the man is. I bet the Zenyatta breeding was fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTk2VTjY4rw

The stallion register has him at 16 hh. Who knows how tall he really is though.

Retrospectiv · Fri Nov 08, 2013 10:08 am

Flanders wrote:
amfuller wrote:War Front seems like such a nice guy. He looks sooo little in this video, I wonder how tall the man is. I bet the Zenyatta breeding was fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTk2VTjY4rw
The stallion register has him at 16 hh. Who knows how tall he really is though.

If he's 16hh, I'm a supermodel

serenassong · Fri Nov 08, 2013 10:41 am

Northport wrote:
amfuller wrote:War Front seems like such a nice guy. He looks sooo little in this video, I wonder how tall the man is. I bet the Zenyatta breeding was fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTk2VTjY4rw
That's a great video, he looks incredibly laid back. The fact that they welcomed fans to pet him and take photos with him is really cool on Claiborne/War Front's part.

They are really good like that, if the stallion is agreeable, they don't have a problem with you getting up close and personal. Told others about this before, in a visit years ago, I actually got to groom Coronado's Quest a bit- and he loved it! When I stopped, he shot me a look like- "why did you stop, I want more!"

mariasmon · Fri Nov 08, 2013 10:45 am

Funny, because one of the Claiborne grooms told me War Front hates having people all up in his space and touching him.

mariasmon · Fri Nov 08, 2013 1:16 pm

Jazil is relocating to Venezuela by way of a lease agreement (Shadwell didn't sell him): http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... na-in-2014

amfuller · Fri Nov 08, 2013 2:16 pm

Soldat to stand debut season for $5,000 at Woodford Thoroughbreds

By DRF Breeding Staff
http://www.drf.com/news/soldat-stand-de ... roughbreds

CoronadosQuest · Fri Nov 08, 2013 2:29 pm

This isn't really stallion news, but I am loving Lane's End's new website and the stallion pages! Especially the videos that they have of them and the huge photos!

Flanders · Fri Nov 08, 2013 2:47 pm

CoronadosQuest wrote:This isn't really stallion news, but I am loving Lane's End's new website and the stallion pages! Especially the videos that they have of them and the huge photos!

I think its a mixed bag. I hate the huge photos because most are out of focus and extremely blurry. However, I love the videos and the stallions individual pages look nice. The rest of the site, not so much.
http://www.lanesend.com/2013/10/2014-st ... unced.html As an example, the picture of The Factor is terrible because its so out of focus. The picture at the bottom of the photoshopped horses is awful too.

CoronadosQuest · Fri Nov 08, 2013 3:49 pm

I wonder if they just coded in the wrong photo because if you go to The Factor's page...

http://www.lanesend.com/wp-content/uplo ... 35-7-A.jpg

That isn't out of focus at all and relatively large. Though it does cut off his feet there (the one I linked)... I feel as though they just uploaded the wrong photo to use on the page that you linked.

Joltman · Fri Nov 08, 2013 6:42 pm

I use Firefox and it does not look good there. Get a 404 message when clicking the Alan Porter link. Not ready for prime time.

The US govt should have some programmers that are coming available...

jm

CoronadosQuest · Fri Nov 08, 2013 6:46 pm

Joltman wrote:I use Firefox and it does not look good there. Get a 404 message when clicking the Alan Porter link. Not ready for prime time.

The US govt should have some programmers that are coming available...

jm

I also use firefox and it looks fine for me.

BlindLucky · Fri Nov 08, 2013 8:38 pm

Flanders wrote:
CoronadosQuest wrote:This isn't really stallion news, but I am loving Lane's End's new website and the stallion pages! Especially the videos that they have of them and the huge photos!
I think its a mixed bag. I hate the huge photos because most are out of focus and extremely blurry. However, I love the videos and the stallions individual pages look nice. The rest of the site, not so much.
http://www.lanesend.com/2013/10/2014-st ... unced.html As an example, the picture of The Factor is terrible because its so out of focus. The picture at the bottom of the photoshopped horses is awful too.

To me, it feels like whoever developed the new site did so on a gigantic monitor with a very high resolution. Anyone using a lower resolution (like my laptop at 1366 x 768) has to scroll a lot and everything looks too big for the browser window. I'm guilty of this on my own site sometimes, when I forget to reduce the size of some of the portrait-oriented photos.

Joltman · Sat Nov 09, 2013 12:08 am

On the page for After Market, the whole photo is chopped off at the top, from his eyeball up.

I'm using a laptop but this should not be

jm

Flanders · Sat Nov 09, 2013 4:43 am

I didn't see this the first time, I looked at their website.
Lane's End
It is nice to show fans who is there, I've never seen a farm show that on their webpage before.

Flanders · Sat Nov 09, 2013 4:56 am

Joltman wrote:On the page for After Market, the whole photo is chopped off at the top, from his eyeball up.

I'm using a laptop but this should not be

jm

Its like that on my 24" desktop monitor also, but it appears they are all like that, not just After Market.
That is just a link to the video about each horse, the actual photos are below that. But they are so big, I can't see them on my monitor without scrolling. I can't enjoy a photo if I have to scroll to see the other part of it. I want to be able to see it all at once.

amfuller · Sat Nov 09, 2013 12:25 pm

I have a 26" desktop moniter and it cuts the heads off too.
However, I want to live at Lane's End. You think they would let be pitch a tent out there somewhere?

It is so beautiful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x6_cuU38aw#t=86

CoronadosQuest · Sat Nov 09, 2013 4:00 pm

I think the header image, the link to the youtube video, is done that way by design. If you want to see the full conformation, scroll down a bit and you will see a gallery of photos including the conformation shot.

BlindLucky · Sat Nov 09, 2013 5:27 pm

CoronadosQuest wrote:I think the header image, the link to the youtube video, is done that way by design. If you want to see the full conformation, scroll down a bit and you will see a gallery of photos including the conformation shot.

But you can't see all of the horse on the screen at the same time in the gallery because of the header, you have to scroll up and down. I can see the top 4/5ths of the image, then have to scroll down to see the legs. Poorly done.