# Is this not the ugliest horse ever seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 13, 2017, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713 "2017-10-13T08:22:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/21 "2017-10-13T18:47:11Z")
Look elsewhere on the page for the pictures of that poor thing’s equally deformed sire and dam. It’s a disgusting trend, but halter breeders are insane–I thought what they did to halter quarter horses was bad but this takes the fucking cake. Halter is the only thing this poor excuse for a horse will ever be fit for because it looks like it can’t draw breath for nothing and good luck trying to ride it or do, well, anything other than stand around looking like itself. Maybe we’ll all get lucky and the critter will die of asphyxiation while attempting to cover its first mare. Then again, I doubt the requirements for natural breeding are in place for these grotesqueries, they’ll just catch a semen sample off the poor beast so it doesn’t overexert itself. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/22 "2017-10-13T18:52:47Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > google “Damascus goat” or “Damascene goat.” Auuuuuggggghhhh!!! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/23 "2017-10-13T19:43:42Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > He should have picked a better one. _golf clap_ ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/24 "2017-10-13T21:44:17Z")
It is a baby (2017 foal) but it’s deformed. It looks like it should go live on the Human Barbie Malibu Ranch. I’m also not a big fan of Arabians, although I’ve seen some I thought were pretty, but this poor thing doesn’t remotely resemble the studs who were the foundation of the Thoroughbred breed. Fans of the breed like them to have a “dish face.” This foal has a “bowl face” or maybe a ski jump. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/25 "2017-10-14T02:03:06Z")
Good lord. Shouldn’t the 2-click rule apply here? Yikes. > [@SmartAleq](#): > > It’s a disgusting trend, but halter breeders are insane–I thought what they did to halter quarter horses was bad but this takes the fucking cake. Halter is the only thing this poor excuse for a horse will ever be fit for because it looks like it can’t draw breath for nothing and good luck trying to ride it or do, well, anything other than stand around looking like itself. Would you mind explaining what “halter” means in this context? I know nothing about horses. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/26 "2017-10-14T02:25:00Z")
Pretty much just what it sounds like–the horses are led in on a halter and judged solely on conformation. They don’t have to do anything or know anything or be in any way useful, they just have to be able to look nice and walk on a lead. The fairly inevitable consequence of this is what you get when working dogs get taken up by conformation show people–needle nosed collies bred for their coats without a brain in their heads, Cavalier King Charles spaniels with neurological issues that put them into intractable pain because their brains are too big for their skulls, Chihuahuas so inbred they all tremble and shake constantly–they’re not cold, they’re damaged. Dachshunds that can’t breed naturally due to their overextended spines, pugs that can’t breathe because their faces are so smushed, which also happened to Persian cats which sometimes throw litters of kittens that die in minutes because their skulls aren’t big enough to hold more than a brainstem. The list goes on forever and now the poor goddamned horses, who’ve always been our partners because of the work they do, have fallen to the same mania. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/27 "2017-10-14T02:32:57Z")
It’s especially horrible because the Arabian horse has always been celebrated for its strength, stamina, hardiness and intelligence–these were desert animals that could go a hundred miles a day carrying a rider on almost no food and little water and do the same the next day and the next. The mares were used as war horses, they’re that strong and fast. Arabian horses were the foundation of the racing Thoroughbred and passed on their traits to produce the fastest horses ever on the planet. That poor fucking mutant can’t breathe properly and never will be able to–I’ll be super surprised if it ever gets saddle broke because having to carry a load for more than a hundred feet would probably kill it. Pitiful, a proper Bedouin would spit on the very idea of that thing. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/28 "2017-10-14T02:56:56Z")
[I’ve](https://s3.scoopwhoop.com/dan/weirdbans/horse.jpg) [seen](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/bc/0b/b3/bc0bb368b6f537f379eaf12317e78bc7--smiling-animals-happy-animals.jpg) [worse](https://pics.me.me/searched-ugly-horse-yup-5104803.png). ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/29 "2017-10-14T02:59:55Z")
Arabians are a wonderful breed, but like usual, humans have screwed it up with “selective” breeding. I had Saddlebreds since I was a kid and I LOVE them, however, the current trend is to breed for this nightmare: [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/ORQYuKG.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/LHu2E) When humans breed for money, animals suffer. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/30 "2017-10-14T03:10:32Z")
Could have guessed that there would be Padron blood 9in his lineage. It’s hard to tell with a weanling & these unclear pictures, but it seems to me that his front legs are too close-set for the size of his body. That’s a far more serious fault than an overly-dished head. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/31 "2017-10-14T03:54:34Z")
> [@ticker](#): > > The breeders say it is ‘close to perfection’. To me its face looks more like that of a seahorse or the victim of a severe beating with a metal pole. They shoot horses to put them out of their misery, but perhaps they should shoot the breeders. > > [http://orrionfarms.com/our-horses/el-rey-magnum-rcf](http://orrionfarms.com/our-horses/el-rey-magnum-rcf) - warning: linked page has auto-start video embedded. If one clicks on the bottom-left of the six mini-photos and uses one’s thumb to cover the horse’s eye, it’s possible to see a Daliesque vision of a tortoise with no eyes… ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/32 "2017-10-14T03:54:54Z")
That’s as foul as those [new “modern” Siamese cats](http://www.cat-breeds-encyclopedia.com/Modern-Siamese-cat.html) that have been bred to look the [stylized pair from Lady & The Tramp.](http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Si_and_Am) ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/33 "2017-10-14T04:17:37Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > Arabians are a wonderful breed, but like usual, humans have screwed it up with “selective” breeding. I had Saddlebreds since I was a kid and I LOVE them, however, the current trend is to breed for this nightmare: > > [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](https://imgur.com/a/LHu2E/) **EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAARGH!** _:::: gibber gibber bigger ::::_ \>sob\< Holy crap that should be criminal! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/34 "2017-10-14T05:42:25Z")
That’s supposed to be a horse? My species has been eating and riding them for millennia, but that’s too creepy to eat. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/35 "2017-10-14T07:50:18Z")
I can’t believe it’s a normal horse. It looks under developed or something. As my dear departed granny used to say “it’s been hit with ugly stick” ---
**Author:** ![plankter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@plankter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plankter)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/36 "2017-10-14T16:31:49Z")
> [@ticker](#): > > The breeders say it is ‘close to perfection’. To me its face looks more like that of a seahorse or the victim of a severe beating with a metal pole. They shoot horses to put them out of their misery, but perhaps they should shoot the breeders. Yeeeaaggh! Too bad Fugly Horse of the Day is kaput, they’d have a field day with this misbegotten creature. You can bypass the video and see a still picture here (for now, hopefully it stays up): [Want to buy a deformed horse for millions of dollars?](http://www.neogaf.com/forum//showthread.php?t=1447577) ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/37 "2017-10-14T16:45:11Z")
That poor little ugly horse. ☹ I watched the video, and now I’m sad. There’s something very sad about an ugly horse. It looks like someone grabbed his snout and squeezed really hard. Why are its nostrils so big? You could drop a 5-gallon bucket in there and it could still breathe just fine. And El Rey Magnum sounds like a condom. Why would anyone name a horse after a condom? Those damascus goats are horrifying. They look like something created by a mad scientist in a spooky lab with beakers full of smoking liquids and strange glowing green things. I think they can probably talk if no people are around. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/38 "2017-10-14T17:22:02Z")
To be fair I suspect all goats can talk and diss the hell out of us when we aren’t around but they’re too smart to screw over their meal ticket so when we’re watching it’s all cuteness and pet me. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/39 "2017-10-14T17:46:25Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > Pretty much just what it sounds like–the horses are led in on a halter and judged solely on conformation. They don’t have to do anything or know anything or be in any way useful, they just have to be able to look nice and walk on a lead. The fairly inevitable consequence of this is what you get when working dogs get taken up by conformation show people \ The list goes on forever and now the poor goddamned horses, who’ve always been our partners because of the work they do, have fallen to the same mania. So they breed horses who can’t…horse? Woah. That’s messed up. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713/40 "2017-10-14T18:19:00Z")
Rich white people got nothing better to do than to fuck up perfectly good animals. Grump. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-not-the-ugliest-horse-ever-seen/798713.md?page=3)