What they say vs. What they mean

• Started -- Rode Once
• Green Broke -- Rode Twice
• Ready to Show -- Green Broke
• 10+ Loper -- Can't Jog
• 10+ Jogger -- Can't Lope
• Good Mover -- Stubbles Occasionally
• Barrel Racing Prospect -- Just Off the Track
• Hunt Seat Prospect -- Should Be On the Track
• Western Pleasure Prospect -- Too Slow for Barrel Racing
• Cutting Horse Prospect -- Turns & Runs when frightened
• Reining Horse Prospect -- Spins & Runs when frightened
• 15.2 hh -- 14.2 hh
• 16.3 hh -- 15.3 hh
• Attractive --- Bay
• Flashy -- Piebald
• Good for Beginning Rider -- Lame in both front legs
• Anyone Can Ride -- Lame in all four legs
• Bombproof -- Lame in all four legs, Deaf, & Blind
• Needs Intermediate Rider -- Runaway
• Needs Experienced Rider -- Potentially Letha
• To Loving Home Only -- Expensive
• To Show Home Only -- Very Expensive
• Can be registered -- I think I know which stud got to the mare
• Pony Type -- Small and Hairy
• Warm Blood Type -- Big and Hairy
• Draft Type -- Extremely Big and Hairy
• TB Type -- Big Motor
• Endurance Type -- Extremely Big Motor
• Must Sell -- Insurance company threatened to drop me
• Sacrifice Sell -- Family won't come back till he's gone
• Clips, Hauls, & Loads -- Clippity clippity is the sound his hooves make as he hauls butt across the parking lot when you try to load him
• Should mature 15.2hh -- Currently 14 hands, dam is 14.2, sire is 14.3, every horse in pedigree back 18 generations is under 14 hands, but this horse will defy his DNA and grow!
  
  Thanks to Joann Zimmer