Re: RC: Arab Slaughter Horse Looking For a Home

[Jerry Kopp <jkopp@ohio.net>]

Suzanne-

	Your post definitely caught my interest....I have just started searching
for a replacement horse for my children.  They have a 16 year old 1/2 arab,
1/2 quarter horse who has developed athritis in her knee this past year and
is now becoming less sound.  I would like to find a horse just like that
one you have down in Sugarcreek for them.  My daughter loves to ride trail
and wants to start doing some competitive trail with me.  How are the
horse's legs and overall conformation?  What kind of shape are the hoofs
in?  I am in Medina and can easily get to Sugarcreek...Anyway, I  would
appreciate any additional information you may have on the horse.  We
currently have two horses who are kept at our home, they have free acess in
and out of the barn to their pasture, so any horse who we are able to find
would have company and space to play.  

Thanks,

Roxanne




At 08:39 PM 8/30/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Suzanne Boyd sboyd1@neo.rr.com
>Maybe things are different here in the midwest(Ohio) but on just about any
>given Friday you can go to the local(Sugarcreek) meat sale and find a few
>nice Arabs in the meat pen. These horses can generally be had for $600 or
>even less. While I will agree that not every horse in the meat buyer's pen
>should be rescued, you would might have a hard time believing some of the
>ones that are there. I don't understand it myself. For instance, in the
>last year I have  gotten: 1. a 6yr. old registered Bask bred gelding that
>is now ridden by an 8 yr. old girl on the local show circuit.  2. an 8 yr.
>old registered Half-Arab gelding that is now doing training level dressage
>at a prominant local dressage barn and jumping 3 ft. with his 12 yr. old
>owner   and 3. an 11 yr. old registered Bask bred gelding that is
>re-aquainting his 50 some year old owner with trailriding. My girlfriend
>has 2 Arabs(one registered, one not) that she got out of the meat pen,
>"Sugarcreek Specials" as we call them that are her primary trail horses.
>The ones she puts her daughter and husband one.  No, we can't save them
>all, (and all of them probably shouldn't be saved) but for the ones that
>should be saved, what a huge difference it makes.  We currently have an 8
>or 9 yr.old gelding that needs a home if anyone in NE Ohio is looking for
>an Arab. He is a solid 15 hands, large boned, flea-bitten grey. Green
>broke, but very kind. A decent rider can handle him at all three gaits.
>This horse was literally taken off the meat truck by my kind-hearted
>friend(she's now a AQHA person, but grew up with Arabs and just couldn't
>let him go. So she pulled him out, tacked him up and walked,trotted and
>cantered him around the sale grounds and then just put him on her
>trailer.) She only wants what she paid for him, $575. If interested,
>please email me at sboyd1@neo.rr.com or call her at 330-866-1571.
>
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