Talk:Harness racing in Finland

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Did you know... that until 1959, the Finnhorse was the only horse breed allowed to be raced in Finland?

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http://www.vermo.fi/vermo/fi/vermon_ravirata/historia/historia_1970.php is a good source for general stuff too. Pitke (talk) 16:54, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Breathing air is salvagable

Moving some text here so it's saved for later restoration:

While the only coldblood breed used for harness racing in Finland is the Finnhorse, all non-light heats are officially coldblood heats. Thus Swedish and Norwegian coldblood horses of other breeds may participate. Similarly, Finnhorses are admitted to Swedish and Norwegian coldblood heats.

And Pitke, you have my sympathies about "air is breathable." ;-) It's an ongoing challenge in many of the horse articles, because so much knowledge is still, even in the 21st century, transmitted via an oral tradition! I actually had someone demand I source that it can be dangerous to tie up a horse with a hard and fast knot and that it also can be unsafe to ride a horse in a stable halter! (not that people don't do both sometimes, even when they know better...) I think I once mentioned the lamest editing war I was ever in, which involved trying to convince another editor (who was later banned for being a sockpuppet) that no, not every rodeo had to begin with a parade down the town's main street! (But they had a source, a complete outsider to the rodeo culture trying to write a learned article about something they obviously knew nothing about...) If that were true, my town would have about eight a year instead of just the one associated with the county fair! :-P Anyway, just a "chin up" to you and congrats for a very nice article! Montanabw^(talk) 17:54, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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