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Re: [RC] Bump on Pastern, buy the horse or not? - Rae Callaway It would be pretty difficult to breed on a blemish or wound. I certainly wouldn't fault the mare for having a bump on the pastern - it's not like she can pass that on, anymore than General could pass on that hole in his head (assuming he was a stud, anyway)
Rae
Tall C Arabians - Central
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From: D'Arcy Demianoff-Thompson <liberty4640@xxxxxxxxx> To: Karla Watson <karlawatson@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, November 2, 2007 7:58:58 AM Subject: Re: [RC] Bump on Pastern, buy the horse or not? I am sorry to be a stickler here but I have always been taught by (Bazy Tankersley, Shiela Varian, Jean Pacheco to name a few) - breed the best to the BEST! Never start with anything that has a fault of any type. You do not know to what might be attributed to genetic disorders that can and will show up in offspring. Whether that is immediate or a couple of generations down the line. I learned this the hard way after buying (at a very large sum of money) a Prince Fa Moniet mare. The first foal out of her had a genetic blood disorder that I found out, after the fact, that runs in a major Egyptian bloodline!
So, I have a tendency to follow the advise of the best of the best and never to buy a horse with any fault or problem that might possibly show up down the line - somewhere!
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