Discipline fails

I decided to finish pairing up my Dutch Warmbloods since I had some spare time. I'd finally bought all the mares I needed a while ago, and an extra stallion just because and now I've got time to plan it all out. I get my spreadsheet going, gene test all of them and start filling it out when I realize, "Wait a minute why is the tack black. I thought it was brown for Show Jumping."

It is Brown. I bought all Dressage horses. 

"It's fine I could convert them." I think. 
Three of them are lined and the other two have horrible speed stats.

Alright then. Time to search again for Show Jumping DWB mares. I guess I won't be unlocking those kiddos now.


Anyone else find some awesome horses that just won't fit your discipline? Did you realize before you bought them or end up with lovely horses that are just no use to you? Or maybe you're extra cool and started a line of those anyway.

^{I've just done that with a driving based Friesian foal... I made him dressage and fed him green apples and only just realised last week that he was actually a driving horse at 18 years old. Yay for stunted stat growth?}

When I started, I wanted to start a line of dressage quarter horses, and I didn't have any understanding of the stats system in place. I spent 18,000 on a quarter horse mare with ridiculously high conformation....also really high western stats. It took me a couple of weeks to figure out why she couldn't win shows, and never would.

So I made her a dressage school horse instead, (now she's a senior) and I'm going to breed the western stats out as a side project.

I can never resist a store with atypical stat spreads. Whenever I'm shopping in the EC and I come across one of those I tend to keep them just for fun.  I ended up with a couple of driving DW's, an endurance welshie, showjumping TWH... I also have a breeding pair of endurance TWH just because I came across a stally with 47 NS and 64% confo.

Or how about having a low NSS showjumping DW just seems unable to win anything... until you notice he is missing his tack >.<

Oh man Maple, that's just awful. For so long too! the perils of having too many horses I guess. 

Good Luck LadyB! Dessage isn't that popular for QHs, so it will definitely be an interesting project.I'm glad you found a place for her. I don't remember what it's like to be a brand newbie, I've been here far too long, but I can imagine that realization was a pretty rough one!

Feline, that's what i do sometimes as well. there's some horses that might be wrong for me but have amazing stats for something else that I just can't let go of! Luckily some others have taken most of them off my hands my Studlies division was getting a bit too big and chaotic! I've definitely done the tack one too. One of my poor darling Dutchies didn't have tack until he was 7 in my last generation. He was a bit behind poor guy.

I’ve gotten a few mustangs that don’t quite work for endurance because their non specialty stats are too high, but i just use them for riding schools and pair them with foundations to reduce the stats.
@LadyB, i am raising dressage quarter horses on my other account. If you need a stud or brood in the future, i would be happy to help you with your project.

^{I bred a show jumping stallion to a really awesome mare...then I looked at the foal and realized the mare was specialized in dressage. Oops.} 

Last edited on 2019-03-24 at 18:40:25 by Olympea

I have that problem allll the time. I breed all of mine in Western, and most of them are NOT popular in Western, so I have a horrible time finding good horses with the right stats, haha.

I found a small herd of second-generation western paints that would have been a perfect match up for my herd I had just bred. I had them locked and waiting and only when the younger horses were almost the same age did I realize that the non-specialty stats were super high. like over 100. I was so mad that I hadn't realized that until after I had bought them all. They are all being culled now.