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Originally Posted by Brooklynn  now horses aren't quite the same as dog clubs....I don't think I would take a palamino to a show KNOWING the palamino is suppose to be that pretty gold with white mane and tail and then try to take a golden horse with a white mane and brown tail and show it...come on....a palamino is just that no devaiting from the breed persa....now you wouldn't want to take a appy horse to a paint horse show and expect it to win even though they could all be considered a quarter horse......same in yorkies Parti's are not the standard in an AKC show so I would hope you wouldn't want to deviate from what the standard or type of horse show would call for now would you? |
But see, that was the whole point of my story ... I took and showed my morgan, who was vastly different from what was normally seen or shown. I could do this because I showed my registered American Morgan Horse at an American Morgan horse show (the breed show).
I wouldn't show my morgan at a Quarter horse show because he's not a Quarter horse and I wouldn't show my yorkie at a bull dog show because it's not a bulldog.
Palomino is a coat color and not a breed, so if there was a class or show specifically for palomino's, no I wouldn't show my red pinto morgan in it but I could show my pinto morgan in a pinto show (like palomino, pinto is a color and not a "breed").
My horse was not the color that the standard called for but he was the product of 2 registered, DNA'd parents, so he had as much right to show and would not have been automatically disqualified due to his off coloring (he may not have pinned because the judge wouldn't look at him but luckily that wasn't the case).
There are breed clubs and registries and there are coat color clubs and registries in the horse world.
The YTCA is the parent "breed club" for AKC registered Yorkshire terriers and I feel that a breed club should be open to all who have the breed but I guess that's where the horse and dog world differ?
