Re: [RC] Breeders VS Rescues - Jody Rogers-Buttram
Just to brag on my boy, but Cash Pony was a rescue, that was 3 years ago. He did have papers and was on his way to the sale barn for the killer buyers. Turns out that I knew the sire of him, and the sire was off the Lasma farm in AZ. He is now a double National Junior 100 mile champion, AND this year, he is the AHA half arab National Champion 100 mile horse.
I rescued another horse a little over a year ago, no papers on him, but I did find out that he was from a breeding farm in TN, and one of their stallions. He had been show in halter from the way he acted. He knew the ropes, would trot out like a dream and then halt and hit that pose like a pro. He demise was a divorce situation. But he is put together very nice and going down the trail competing. Hopefully he will do his first 100 this year.
Jody
--- On Wed, 12/17/08, Dyane Smith <sunibey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I agree. I got a wonderfully wellbred horse from the feedlot in L.A. County. I have his papers. The horse has very good conformation and, after a number of years when he finally relaxed, is a total sweetheart. He can't be ridden in endurance because of an inoperable bone chip in his rear fetlock but he did not have that when I got him.
He ended up at the feedlot after being sold during his breeder's divorce. He had one other owner prior to the feedlot who apparently terrorized him and starved him (he gained weight at the feedlot even though the conditions there were not ideal and he was grossly underweight when I got him). He tossed me three times, all but killing me, before a natural horsemanship trainer Harry Whitney was able to communicate with him. The result (before his bone chip problem) was a horse that was a dream to ride, so responsive you only had to think and he was there for you. I rode him in a sidepull which, for him, was perfect.
Bottomline, wellbred, well trained horse, badly abused and frightened, at the feedlot and set to go to slaughter. As I have said before, "bad things happen to good horses" and most of the time, the "bad things" are bad owners. My philosophy is that once they're mine, they are my responsibility.
