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Re: [RC] Arkansas Sale Barn (from another list) - rides2farOne dun gelding was really appealing to me - he looked like a > Morgan. Beautiful crested neck on him with a huge laid back shoulder. Lotsof> > bone, smoothly muscled, very pretty. Quarter Horse papers. Kid broke,> > 6 years old, and broke to drive. I'm like the rest of you in that it hurts to think there's good horses going through the sale...*however* How many 6 year old horses do you know that are "kid broke, and broke to drive"? That's a HORSE TRADER line. It's darned rare for a popular colored horse like a dun, to have all those traits and be sent through an auction. I used to help beginners shop for horses (but never ever at or through an auction) but I did attend a few in my day. Any time someone says "He's broke to harness" I can't help but laugh. The traders haven't changed their tune since 1930 I guess. They're ALL broke to harness. Heck, hook him to a plow, he's *experienced*. Send them in a tiny pen and they stop, start and turn good too! Put a mean little 10 year old kid in there that would ride anything on 4 legs and let him ride him around the auction pen with a halter and "He's kid broke, they can ride him with a halter!". Give him a real good dose of drugs and that kid'll crawl all over him. It's a shame because since you can't trust what you see at an auction you wouldn't know if the real thing went through. I know people hit hard times and some good horses end up at the auction, but my personal experience is that they send a horse to an auction when they don't want to face a buyer and answer questions. If that horse breaks ropes, bucks, is lame, etc. and they don't want to lie to someone about it and have them come back and tell them they lied, they send them through the auction. I have bought horses that went through the auction *later*...after someone else took them home and found out why they were there. I don't mind taking on a horse that's green, or whatever, but I like to see him in the light of day when he's sober. People I know who buy at auctions are like gamblers. I've known them who buy a horse, take him home, find out he goes over backwards. Take him back the next week, run him through, bring home another one that's dead lame when the drugs wear off. They take that one back, bring home another that's impossible to catch. I'm just really leary when somebody tells me that nothing went through but a bunch of gorgeous well broke horses that "are broke to harness". Angie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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