Re: RC: Fw: Arab Slaughter Horses etc...!

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In a message dated Thu, 30 Aug 2001  7:48:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Beth Gunn" <happyhoofprints@hotmail.com> writes:

> Have really good friend here in Moncks Corner SC who does close to this.
> For her job/career she goes out, finds neglected and unwanted horses,
> registered and not, brings them to her barn and re-habs them.  It is a long
> process, at Least several months.  Usually 6 months to a year.  And resales
> them as pleasure horses....oporative word, yes?  After adding up the
> expenses, she barely, I mean it!, breaks even.

Myrtle Creek Arabians did this in Oregon for many years (started the horses and marketed them as endurance horses, often with a few rides under their saddles), but it takes a really good eye to separate the wheat from the chaff and pick prospects.  There are getting to be more and more Arabs out there with less and less potential to be functional saddle horses, sad to say.

Heidi