#hmm ok lemme gather some sources
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May I present: (Certain) Western Pleasure Quarterhorses
They may be bred to have poor conformity
They are trained to move so so slow that their gaits are unrecognizable
Due to conformity issues or wretched, labored gaits, they are often lame (in pain and gaits are visibly affected)
Eg:
From above reddit thread:
A non-reddit source for your pleasure:
I wonder if I could start an argument among horse people by asking one question:
Which horse breed, in your opinion, is the cybertruck of horses?
#the shouldn't exist looks bad falls apart can't get wet of horses you say?#i mean...people don't typically breed horses to be useless...i guess the closest you could get would be the grossly overbred quarterhorses?#like “quarterhorse” = good solid horse. but western show stock quarterhorse....i am retelling others' tales here please bear in mind....#apparently some people in the western pleasure show circuit are very very obsessed with getting a gait that is...smoother? i guess? but#other (“normal”) western riders say those horses just like. don't move right.#hmm ok lemme gather some sources#....after very little googling...#*voila* (wrote the post)
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