Yosay Photography

11/20/2025

Setting up for some family and pet photos . If interested please contact me .

01/24/2024

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Type controversies within a breed, whether of horses or dogs, are not new. So many humans think that they KNOW what a Quarter Horse, a Shetland Sheepdog, a Morgan, a Connemara OUGHT to look like, and they are swift on both the attack and on the defense to push or to defend THEIR version of what is right or wrong.

This is the famous painting of what is called in the Quarter Horse world, “The Mixer Horse.” It is the artist’s rendition of what he considered an ideal type. Other breeds may have similar paintings. Some agree, no doubt, that this is ideal while others may not in terms of particulars and specifics.

Now I do believe that there ARE rights and wrongs, Any traits that lead to a loss of functional athleticism or of intrinsic soundness are wrong, period, end of sentence.

But to state in some inflexible way that THIS horse is a “real” (fill in the breed) and that horse is not fails to take into account that horses of certain breeds, while expected to follow general patterns of recognizable breed type, can be asked to perform in widely different ways.

I have a friend who is highly knowledgeable about Morgans. He feels that one of the most negative traps that a breed can get caught in is to create a visual depiction of what someone considers the “perfect” (fill in the breed).

Because once that “perfect type” gets hung out there, it starts type wars, because humans LOVE to fight and bicker, as we well know by reading the headlines every day of the year.

Fighting within a breed, called “internecine warfare,” (Google it) can be highly destructive because it so thoroughly turns off outsiders who might otherwise become converts to a breed, and it makes for so many flat out unpleasant discussions.

Take a breed that we all know a little bit about, the Thoroughbred. Get hold of a Blood Horse stallion issue and study the photos of the top sires in the world. While there will be some type consistency, there will also be big variation, from 15.1 hands to 17.1, from crested necks to skinny necks, massive ones, lighter ones. Because PERFORMANCE not type pushes the enterprise.

Now that doesn’t mean that an Arab should not look like an Arab, nor a Morgan like a Morgan, but they can do that in varying ways, within a range. The spinning, sliding cow working Morgan will not have the exact same type as the park saddle show ring performer, but they are still both Morgans.

Type wars hurt the breeds. I will say it again in a different way—Go love YOUR type, and let others love THEIR types, and maybe don’t be so convinced that you and you alone know what your breed has to look exactly like.

Overall type, sure, but start with the “big 3” sound, sane and athletic in ANY breed, then add on type without sacrificing what really matters.

09/02/2023

Time for family at the 177 th CANFIELD Fair . Draft horse show today and grandaughter and daughter helped!Her turnout belonging to Joy Campbell took home a 1st place ribbon!

08/09/2023

Ready set go!

12/17/2021

Recently finished wrestling season photos and statuettes!

11/17/2021

Wonderful time for family photos with us!

10/22/2021

Having fun riding at Mohican State Park!Being back in the saddle with good friends!

10/02/2021

09/28/2021

It’s almost hockey season!

09/09/2021

More reunions this month! Ursuline class of 1976!

08/15/2021

It’s Reunion time! And we love working with these great schools!Recent two weekends with Boardman and Mooney !Thanks for letting us share your memories!