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.
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