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I heard a report on NPR and one of the eventing horses on the US Olympic 
team in '04 was an off the track TB (too slow), who had ended up in a 
pack string when he was bought for a few hundred bucks. I guess a good 
horse is where you find them.

Truman

Nancy Sturm wrote:

> That is so very true!
> I bought an off the track TB once out of a farmer's pasture for $450. 
> I did a couple of years training, took him to some clinics, showed him 
> a few times and sold him for a nice profit to a young man who sold him 
> a year or so later and then that horse hit the horse version of the 
> big time. He ended up in a hunter jumper barn in Pebble Beach, Ca 
> after being sold for what was in those days a small fortune. The 
> difference in his being a $450 slow race horse and a very expensive 
> three day horse was having the right owner. And it wasn't me.
> Nancy Sturm



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