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There are still quite a few large cattle ranches in FL and still quite a 
few cowboys. The vet I used before I moved to where I am now took care 
of the vet work for one 40 thousand acre rance near Sarasota. He told me 
that they will not touch a horse if it is not at least half TB. The 
current crop of "purebred" QH's would not hold up to the rigors of ranch 
work in the swamp in the FL summers. The other horse that is used is of 
course the "Cracker Horse." Ed probably can tell you more about the 
cracker horse, but it's a small tough horse that decended from the 
horses brought over by the Spanish. Some of the ranches with an equine 
breeding operation use both TB and Cracker blood to produce thier ranch 
horses.

Truman

Ed Kilpatrick wrote:

> hi all,  some interesting comments on tbs, arabs, etc, and the 
> influence of breeds on others.   if some of my quarterhorse and 
> thorougbred friends want to really get shook up,  research the 
> foundation breeding of the king ranch quarterhorses and see what you 
> find out.  they used a "trainload" of unregistered thoroughbred mares 
> to breed to their prototype stallion, then linebred the next 
> generation fillies.  i always giggle when some of my quarterhorse 
> friends get upset when i ask them about their "appendix bred"  
> quarterhorses.   we have fun and friendly arguments about it all the time.
> that said, it is awfully hard to determine what is what in the horse 
> world, without extremely good documentation.   you never know when 
> there could be an "arab in the woodpile."   i dont believe, however, 
> that God created the arab, then took a rib out of him and made the 
> rest of the horses in the world.     :-)   ed   (well mounted on a 
> heinz 57 mustang)




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