Compare and Contrast Fiona vs Exception

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Nicole Moellman Point by point essay Rough Draft The thoroughbred horse is a wonderful breed. For the most part they are highly intelligent, strong, and willing to lean. I have now owned two thoroughbreds. They were both around the same height, the same color, and obviously same breed. I got them based on pictures and a video. To top it off I also didn’t try either of them before I decided to buy them. However the vast differences in personality were astonishing, the amount of training one had compared to another, and the amount of potential each horse had was so entirely different, that even I was surprised. Exception is a young thoroughbred gelding who I bought from a race horse adoption agency down in Hummelstown, PA. When I first met him he was extremely thin that his ribs were showing due to just being right off the track. He was very shy, but seemed to have an extremely gentle personality. Perhaps it’s because he didn’t want to be on the track anymore. When I met Fiona my first thoroughbred that I bought, she was big and extremely strong. She was being used as a lesson horse at a facility, and anyone could just tell she wasn’t happy. She was as angry as she was big, and she had no problem letting someone know it. She was very unapproachable in the sense that if anyone tried to go into her stall and she didn’t like the person she would try to pin them against the wall to kick at that person. At this point I was thinking to myself “Oh my gosh what did I get myself into?” Even her owner said that she will only bond to a certain person. That she would dislike almost everyone else, but once she was bonded to a person she was a different horse. Exception being as young as he is, he has the whole world ahead of him. He is still learning how to be a horse and really learning what’s expected of him now that he’s not on the track. Due to the fact he had no

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