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wow... I really like the way this horse moves! I think you have a  
good one, and he must have been looking for you :)

Steph

On Jun 8, 2009, at 1:55 PM, rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> OK, so I've got another new project. I have not become a  
> professional rescuer, it's just the kind of horses I like seem to  
> be the type others don't value enough to take care of. :-/
>
> I really had planned to look at some "retail" horses this time,  
> something maybe with some training. 7 is a sweety, and I haven't  
> given up on him at all, but he just doesn't seem like "me" a lot of  
> the time. Kind of like wearing nice clothes that belong to someone  
> else and aren't your style. Anyway, I was still kinda looking for a  
> "me" horse and people kept sending me ads with this horse in it. I  
> think what it was was my friends would go look at this horse for  
> themselves, then see he wasn't "15 hands" like they said...actually  
> a tad over 14.1 and they'd say, "This would be a good horse for  
> Angie!" You really don't have to compete with a lot of 6' tall  
> people for these little guys. :-)
>
> After the 2nd person forwarded all the same photos to me and  
> insisted this was the horse for me I  had tried to contact the  
> woman but she'd disappeared. Fast forward 6 months and last week  
> *another* endurance rider forwarded an ad to me for a horse all the  
> way down near Macon and when I opened it there he was again! This  
> woman had bought him in Feb, then 2 months later got pregnant and  
> needed to sell him. Since I'd already made up  my mind I had to  
> meet him and had TONS of photos from every angle that my friends  
> had taken,I just hooked up the trailer and headed down there. What  
> a shock. Apparently the horse hadn't had a square meal since Feb.  
> when this person bought him. It was so sad. If I hadn't memorized  
> his markings I'd have been sure it was a different horse. How much  
> can a chest shrink?  So he HAD to come home with me. Rain rot,  
> ribby and all.
>
> Josie took one look at him and said, "His head looks like Kaboot!"  
> I hadn't noticed since it looked HUGE on his skinny body but  
> without the frizzy bangs and skinny neck I could see her point.  
> Then he and Kaboot took off trotting up the hill and Josie and I  
> both said at the same time "HE'S BASE WIDE!" (Kaboot's claim to fame)
>
>
>
> I posted before and after photos. Unfortunately, the "before"  
> photos are the GOOD ones...but at least you can see why I was  
> interested. Makes you mad to look at them though. He was part of an  
> estate that was dispersed when the owners died. He's been handled a  
> lot, loads well, everything. Sad to think he had a great situation  
> 4 1/2 years then spent the winter hungry and wondering why. Photos at:
>
>  http://www.my-endurance.net/photo/photo/listForContributor? 
> screenName=1kwabxdoj45dj
>
> Video:http://www.my-endurance.net/video/fadjurs-talisman
>
> Pedigree: http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/fadjurs+talisman
>
> Angie McGhee
>
>
>
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