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	This is kind of a backwards way of looking at the situation but here 
goes.  Kari, in your original post you say that you would now like to 
breed this mare to produce endurance prospects but you don't want to 
have to register them as 1/2 arabs when you know they are purebred. 
Maybe the fact that the mare's papers are so hard to get will actually 
save you from producing babies when the market is so down even 
registered, sweepstakes horses are going for way below what it cost to 
produce them.  I'm saying this a bit tongue-in-cheek, but, especially 
given the recent RC discussions about rescue horses and horse prices, 
her lack of papers may be a blessing in disguise.
	If you are determined to breed her in order to produce horses for the 
endurance market, you are lucky in that many endurance people look at 
the horse and its ability to perform and not the papers.  Since you do 
know her pedigree via her racing tatoo, if her babies are really good, 
that should be quite enough for people looking for performance quality.
	I bought an OTT racing arabian gelding a number of years ago.  Tatooed, 
pedigree known (shown to me by the sellers) but they didn't want to sell 
his papers because they said they didn't want him raced again.  That 
didn't make much sense to me but I went along with it.  A couple of 
years later I decided to sell him was given essentially the same info 
you've gotten from the Registry.  Fortunately for me, I was able to buy 
his papers and did sell him with the ability to transfer ownership with 
the Registry.  Knowing what I know now, I may well have been able to 
sell him just as well without his official papers.
	I guess what I'm trying to say is: dont get all hung up on the value of 
registration papers, especially in today's very shaky horse market.
Laney

Tx Trigger wrote:
> You bought the mare thinking she had no papers. Personally, I'd not 
> bother if it is that much work and frustration. If you had a use planned 
> for her when you bought her, and love her , then the papers should not 
> change that.
>  
> I have one that his papers did not follow him, and have been "lost" 
> along the way, but I do know who he really is, and that is enough for me.
>  
> Jonni in TX


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