Ann Romney – Horsey Team – London Olympics

http://special.registerguard.com/web/opinion/28456787-47/romney-horse-dressage-rafalca-horses.html.csp

Rafalca, a 15-year-old Oldenburg mare owned in part by the Romneys, qualified as a member of the U.S. Olympic team and will be competing in London in the dressage competition — a form of ballet for horses and their riders in which the animals do pirouettes, serpentines and Piaffes, which, according to the International Equestrian Federation, is a “highly collected, cadenced, elevated diagonal movement” in which “the haunches with active hocks are well engaged.” Rafalca, after qualifying, flew across the Atlantic on a FedEx jet (no, they didn’t strap her to the roof) and reportedly dined on an in-flight meal of watermelon.

Understandably, Romney was wary about discussing dressage when NBC’s Brian Williams asked him in London Wednesday about his equine Olympian. “You actually have a horse in the race. What’s that gonna be like?”

“Well,” Romney replied. “It’s — a big — exciting experience for my wife and — and for the person that she’s worked with, the trainer of the horse who’s riding the horse. And — obviously, it’s fun to be part of the Olympics in any way you can be part of them."

Williams followed up: “When is the event, and for those of us who don’t follow the sport, what happens? Are there rounds that — of competition? Is there just one chance? What happens?”

Romney pleaded ignorance. “I have to tell you. This is Ann’s sport. I’m not even sure which day the sport goes on. She will get the chance to see it, I will not — be — watching — the event. I hope — her horse does well.”

Mitt Romney no different than Prime Minister Cameron in the Breeding Department?

Pure Bred like Mitt?

Looking at a bit of the BBC today and Parliamentary questions and answers and the growing Murdoch scandal that seems to have a special firewall here in America, the term “Posh Boys” got tossed around against the PM and Chancellor Osborne.

It is a label that may stick on the other side of the pond.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/25/us-britain-cameron-idUSBRE83O0JX20120425

Well, as for Mitt and Ann, I think that maybe an upgrade in language or terms for the Doggy Breeding and Horsey breeding rich set might be a useful communications tool, to perhaps enliven rhetoric, in the upcoming boring election season against the “mutts” or 99% in 2012.

Austrian Warmblood

While few will see a pure breed Afghan hound in the image of Williard, I think that may Ann “Dish Pan Hands” Romney might have some roots or affinity with her Austrian Warmbloods, which I suspect she has many more of than Cadillacs.

Here are some glossaries of terms of the 1% Romney types and their hobby of linebreeding, both of themselves and their prize dogs and horses.

Breeding and Whelping Terms

http://www.ezwhelp.com/WhelpingTermsAndDefinitions.htm

Dictionary of Horse Terms

http://www.horses-and-horse-information.com/horsedictionary.shtml

Did Mitt charges studs fees for Seamus along the way in order to pay for the gasoline on those trips.  That was the reason to drag the poor creature around on the car roof? One thing rich people are is cheap. Seamus was no doubt a pure breed. Just saying.

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