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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Not the least bit weird.  When one is in 4-H, folks who aren't your 
"friends" call you up for advise if you are listed as a resource.  Guess 
you've never been in 4-H.  Or never had friends who have friends who refer 
them to you.

No offense, but big whoop.  I can do the same thing.  Probably done them for 
the same number of decades.  One more time, for the NOVICE, "Breed of horse 
will give a general jumping off point.  Buying a grade horse gives you a 
mystery package."

Nobody is saying YOU should do x, y or z.  Get over it.  The conversation 
wasn't about you.

As I remember it, he was looking for an all around horse and was interested 
in a specific "breed."  My original post was "go for a mustang" since they 
are just about the same "breed" but much more affordable.  AND, then if one 
was looking for a horse for a specific purpose, one more time "Breed of 
horse will give a general jumping off point.  Buying a grade horse gives you 
a mystery package."

So, for all those that are novices, I'll say what I said to begin with, find 
someone who is an expert and take them with you.  If you want a horse for a 
specific purpose "Breed of horse will give a general jumping off point. 
Buying a grade horse gives you a mystery package."

Lynda, who really needs to tell her friends to take those working ranch 
horses out to Celia's area so they can get that $10,000 for them.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <paxamicus AT earthlink.net>


> Lynda, what you are writing is straight flat out opinion so it really
> can't BE debated.  I could poke it to death if I wanted to but I don't
> have time. I am responding to the general theme and I'm sorry you
> don't like it. It's weird people who aren't your friends would call
> you up and complain about horses they'd bought themselves. I don't get
> that so I asked why they'd do it?
>
> I'm not clairvoyant, but I'm a damned good horse person whose made a
> living at it in one guise or another for decades. I CAN look at a
> horse move, I can watch it work, and 99% of the time I'm going to be
> spot on with whatever's wrong with it.
> And  X rays are nothing more than cheap insurance.  You want him to go
> out and spend money, not just chump change on a nag, but real money on
> a purebred (and purebred vs papered is just semantics so give me a
> break, ok?) and NOT x-ray it? That is not the brightest move I've ever
> heard of. If you want to go look at it's great grand damn's feet, have
> at it, but without the PAPERS of a purebred horse, how would you even
> know where to look for this extended family? People don't keep family
> groups of non-papered but pureblood horses lying around.
>
> X rays are cheap unless you want the digital ones and even those only
> run about $150 a set. Would you buy a car without having it inspected?
> Any vet can do them in the dang barn standing in the aisle.
>
> I really don't get why you want this poor guy to run out and buy some
> "non-papered but pureblood" plow horse. There are so many half
> draughts floating around this part of the country (he's within a day's
> journey of me, I think) that it would be insane to go spend ten grand
> on some pureblood when the local farmer's co-op probably has 97
> adverts for horses for sale to fit the bill for under a thousand.