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To: Billie
They are magnificent. Got me searching the web for more pics for my collection. How's this for the classic fantasy Renaissance photo...(also an Andalusian):


108 posted on 11/21/2003 11:59:06 AM PST by sweetliberty ("Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.")
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To: sweetliberty
That mane is unreal! Lady Godiva could have ridden this one and her 'own' long hair wouldn't even have been necessary! :)
109 posted on 11/21/2003 12:03:25 PM PST by Billie
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To: sweetliberty
Andalusians are lovely horses, they are the last of the classic "High Horses" for royalty's processions (hence the expression, "ah, get off your high horse!")

The only gripe I have with them is they are naturally heavy as lead on the forehand. You feel like you're riding a wheelbarrow - downhill all the time. And jumping . . . forget it! They're not jumping horses.

They also are not very speedy. I went to see LOTR with a friend, and we noticed in the chase scene with Arwen and Frodo running from the Black Riders that the Andalusian was going full tilt, while the Black Riders (on their T'breds) were having to hold their horses back to avoid overtaking the Andalusian.

That said, I think the Andalusians have the most noble heads and necks of ANY breed on the planet.

119 posted on 11/21/2003 2:49:42 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?. . .)
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