>>
>> Tell her that you have a friend with a Zippo Pine Bar filly that's on
>> her third ride.. I wonder if she'll know the name. :)
>>
 
 
> I just did (phoned her at work).  She knows what it is, but isn't
> too
> impressed.
 
> Jen asked me to ask you if it's hype positive or negative (whatever
> that means).
 
What it means is that she's confused Zippo Pine Bar for "Impressive". There 
is a specific problem with the horses with Bloodlines traced to the Stud 
"Impressive" called HYPP for Hypercalamic Periodic Peralisis (sp?)..
which basically boils down to a mutation of the cell structure where the 
horse literally leaks to much potasium into the blood stream. The horse with 
this condition then has an "episode"... not unlike a siezure. They aren't 
pretty.. and in the old days the only way to verify the whispered "Impressive 
Syndrom" was to draw blood during one of these epsiodes to verify potassium 
levels.. Impressive was the foremost AQHA Halter Sire.. and now has 
bloodlines that lead out to Paint and Appy amoung others.
 
Any horse with Impressive bloodlines should be tested for HYPP. The results 
can be: P/P (positive/positive- very rare), P/N (positive/Negative and the 
ones to watch and regulate) and N/N for clean bill of health.
 
Impressive horses that test P/P or P/N can be regulated for the problem with 
dietary changes, work regimine and medication. 
   
 
Zippo Pine Bar is the leading Performance Sire in AQHA.. NOT Halter. No 
problems except some slight conformation flaws that can be rememdied.    
 
Zippo PIne Bar horses have set the standard for movement in many breed 
organizations including AQHA in such events are Western Pleasure and English 
flat work.  
 
I'd suggest you might print this out before you try and feed it back to her. 
;) 
 
 
 
>  All I know about a Zippo, is it's a cigaret lighter, Pine
> is a type of tree, and Bar is probably where you end up when you've been
> bodgered too much.  :)
 
Well the last name "Bar" is a famous one leading back to Three Bars.. a 
foundation horse for AQHA..  
 
You also have Doc Bar a rather famous sire for working/cattle/reining horses.
 
etc etc etc.
 
 
> .....Bob
 
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