The cowhorse people hate halter horses, Impressive, TBs, you name it, and they can't see past that and open up their minds to what it will take to fix the things that have gone wrong


This is where you are partially mistaken. I do hate stupid overweight horses who don't have the legs to carry them, but I don't hate Impressive. He was a beautiful horse that sired beautiful horses, but saying he was a performer is insane, if he wasn't that pretty we wouldn't even know he ever existed, he would have been just another one among the thousands of racing culls.

And on the TB thing, by the level specialized horses have got I think it makes more sense to try to outcross to other bloodlines within the breed (like Firewater Fiesta) instead of using horses that'll mean a step back in terms of producing the characteristics needed to compete at the highest level. And even using QHs from different bloodlines you're more likely to fail than to succeed, do you know how many racing stallions have been crossed to cow mares after Miss N Cash came along? many many horses, how many of them succeeded? zero