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Originally Posted by Pinehaven  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?  |
Well you actually proved my point....the standard of the yorkie has a certain color to achieve. You still wouldn't want to show a "color" palamino with a red color tail at a palamino show so therefore you shouldn't want to show an off colored yorkie in an AKC show because it still deviates from what the breed standard calls for just as in a palamino horse, a horse is a breed and a palamino is a color you achieve in order to show that particular horse in that particular "breed color". The palamino and paints and appy's can be registered as quarter horses which is a registry but they still have different clubs for those particular "colors".
Again, show breeders and pet breeders still will not see eye to eye on this subject.
Donna Bird