The Fabio of Horses
May 24, 2018 9:29 PM   Subscribe

Frederik the Great is a Friesian stallion who may be the most handsome horse in the world. More evidence at Pinnacle Friesians.
posted by Johnny Wallflower (40 comments total) 6 users marked this as a favorite
 
Handsome now, handsome 35 years ago on the cover of my Trapper Keeper.
posted by Iris Gambol at 9:39 PM on May 24, 2018 [21 favorites]




Theoden’s gonna be pissed. Somebody left the Mearas pen open again.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:57 PM on May 24, 2018 [3 favorites]


Oh this? My glorious, flowing, horse locks? I wouldn't say neigh if you called it my mane attraction.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 10:04 PM on May 24, 2018 [11 favorites]


I wasn't expecting to say this, but okay, that's a damn good looking horse.
posted by yhbc at 10:29 PM on May 24, 2018 [4 favorites]


Give it a lick! It tastes just like raisins!
posted by aubilenon at 10:39 PM on May 24, 2018 [12 favorites]


Every little girl's dreamhorse!
posted by a humble nudibranch at 10:44 PM on May 24, 2018 [3 favorites]


Sure the horse is handsome, but it’s got to be tiring riding him while holding up a set of scales and going on and on about the prices of grain.
posted by Sys Rq at 11:11 PM on May 24, 2018 [6 favorites]


I don't know, he's no Akhal-Teke.
posted by tavella at 11:41 PM on May 24, 2018 [2 favorites]


OMG that's like the Fabio of horses.
Also:
That's a weave.
posted by sexyrobot at 11:48 PM on May 24, 2018 [5 favorites]


It's a horse alright.

I guess I'm horrible at judging horses' attractiveness... No idea what makes a horse pretty :(
posted by Vesihiisi at 11:51 PM on May 24, 2018


That is an absolute unit.
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 12:08 AM on May 25, 2018 [18 favorites]


I came in to make the Fabio joke, then saw the title.
posted by Meatbomb at 1:36 AM on May 25, 2018 [2 favorites]




He'd be so much prettier if he just cut his hair.
posted by Morpeth at 2:35 AM on May 25, 2018 [3 favorites]


I was totally expecting a blonde horse, but otherwise lives up to the title.
posted by ktkt at 2:46 AM on May 25, 2018 [1 favorite]


The breeding contract makes for interesting reading. It looks like most of his stud work is done via artificial insemination. I thought that wasn’t done for horse breeding, or does that just apply to thoroughbreds? Or am I just completely confused?
posted by TedW at 3:42 AM on May 25, 2018


Still smells like a horse, though.
posted by pipeski at 4:14 AM on May 25, 2018


I'm not into horses, honest, but damn, baby.
posted by Halloween Jack at 4:31 AM on May 25, 2018


Loved the shot with the columns - very classy.
posted by bonobothegreat at 4:51 AM on May 25, 2018 [1 favorite]


The breeding contract makes for interesting reading. It looks like most of his stud work is done via artificial insemination. I thought that wasn’t done for horse breeding, or does that just apply to thoroughbreds? Or am I just completely confused?
posted by TedW at 3:42 AM on May 25


It's actually pretty common with the exception of racing Thoroughbreds. Even their harness racing cousins can be bred via artificial insemination.
posted by sardonyx at 5:55 AM on May 25, 2018 [1 favorite]


Those ridiculous Photoshopped portraits make me irrationally angry.

But he is a very pretty horse.
posted by cooker girl at 6:09 AM on May 25, 2018 [4 favorites]


a. He is pretty
b. I long to give him a mane-cut and free him from all that heavy hair so he can see and run more easily.
posted by emjaybee at 6:25 AM on May 25, 2018 [5 favorites]


I want Frederik and Mariska the Houdini Friesian to hang out and maybe give us beautiful and brilliant babies.
posted by gladly at 6:30 AM on May 25, 2018 [2 favorites]


Frederik the Great, live and in person on Stephen Colbert.

Though personally, I think you have to go with Gypsy vanners for their absolute unitude + outrageous floof.
posted by drlith at 7:04 AM on May 25, 2018 [4 favorites]


He'd be so much prettier if he just cut his hair.

Or at least pulled it up off of his face. Why does he want to hide his beautiful face?

This post brought to you by my grandmother.
posted by amarynth at 7:19 AM on May 25, 2018 [27 favorites]


Gypsy vanners

I'll be in my stall.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 7:47 AM on May 25, 2018 [3 favorites]


I dunno, that permed mane is a bit much.

Also the irony of naming a stud horse "Frederick the Great". The real Frederick ignored his wife, had no little foals of his own, and preferred the company of other stallions.
posted by Nelson at 9:35 AM on May 25, 2018 [9 favorites]


I've never seen a more accurate post title.

It's a mercy my old horse with a famously sparse tail (Appaloosas are known for this! But poor wispy Agent) died before he could know such a horse existed.
posted by Emmy Rae at 10:05 AM on May 25, 2018 [1 favorite]


BRB going to make some fan art.
posted by missmobtown at 10:41 AM on May 25, 2018 [5 favorites]


I'm not into horses, honest, but damn, baby.

So back when my son was in his fast-mapping period I made him an account on my computer and set up his desktop wallpaper to be a slideshow of labelled mammals (I wasn't ready to put in the time to do all of animalia). But I tried to get good coverage of the clade. I got an evolutionary tree diagram and tried to find good representative pictures of as many branches as possible.

Here's what I got out of this:

1. He randomly poked around and set his wallpaper to something else basically right away.
2. Horses are just the most beautiful mammals. I've seen like a fucking million mammal pictures and they are the best. I'm not just comparing them to naked mole rats and proboscis monkeys. Any other mammal, you name it, horses are just majestic beauty personified. Or, uh, horsified.
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 11:59 AM on May 25, 2018 [1 favorite]


Mr. Ed: "Pretty like a Friesian, probably hung like a mule deer; Neeaahhhaaaahhyy!!!"
posted by e1c at 1:01 PM on May 25, 2018 [1 favorite]


Boxer: "I will work harder."
Frederik the Great: "I will work it."
posted by mosk at 1:50 PM on May 25, 2018 [1 favorite]


Where is he going,
With his fetlocks blowing in the wind?
I want to shower him with sugar lumps
And ride him over fences,
Polish his hooves every single day,
And take him to the horse dentist.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 2:48 PM on May 25, 2018 [4 favorites]


That's the kind of horse that's always clogging the shower drain.
posted by lagomorphius at 3:24 PM on May 25, 2018 [4 favorites]


He looks like Shadowfax's shadow.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 4:01 PM on May 25, 2018 [1 favorite]


There are probably other equally good looking horses out there somewhere that just don't have the benefit of their own hairstylist. But yes, Frederik is incredibly beautiful.
posted by Kevin Street at 6:24 PM on May 25, 2018


Ok, that horse is hot.
posted by latkes at 10:35 PM on May 25, 2018


You are not horsing around.
posted by y2karl at 4:58 PM on May 26, 2018


HOW DID I MISS THIS POST BEFORE. Thank you for posting, I love how shiny he is.
posted by brilliantine at 9:01 AM on June 22, 2018 [2 favorites]


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