Re: RC: Re: Horses wanted

[Jasmine Cave <toppere@siu.edu>]

In my area the local "trader" has about 2-3 pages of horse classifieds of
QH, Tb, arabs, TWH, Appys, and mules. There are many good horses, most
registered and broke for $1000. My Appy came from the paper as a 5 yr
old(now 8)for $850. He is a very nice horse with legs and feet like iron.
My registered 6 yr old(now 7)TB mare cost $500. She is also a very nice
horse with tons of go and great conframation. My sister just got her first
horse, an 6 yr old arab mare for $900. She is a dark dapple, 14.2 H, dam
was fadjur line bred, sire was babson and crabbet blodlines. There are a
lot of horses around because just about everyone either trail rides, fox
hunts, rodeos, or shows.
jasmine
At 08:36 PM 6/25/99 -0400, Teddy Lancaster wrote:
>The market got flooded YEARS ago...especially with arabs and they were going
>cheap.  Then there were the Arabian show people who thought endurance arabs
>were the rejects and sold all their "ugly" ones cheap.  Now, there is a lack
>of good arabs.  But, many seem to think they can still get a horse cheap
>because there are so many.  Let this person suffer in oblivion.  I have some
>GOOD horses, too and want $5000 for each.  I will negotiate to the right
>home, but, in the long run, you DO get what you pay for.
>
>This person will probably pay $500 and get some doped up REAL reject who, as
>soon as the drugs wear off, will end up at the glue factory where it
>belonged and the sorry buyer will be back to square one.
>
>Teddy in SE Ohio
>
>Lif Strand wrote:
>
>> I forwarded that request for cheap  horses to the list.  I am pretty
>> amazed at the responses.  Paul told me to add (after it was too late &
>> I'd already sent the email) that anyone with such a horse to sell should
>> first make sure this person was not a "front" for a killer buyer.
>> Someone else pointed that out right away, though.
>>
>> What amazed me is all the indignation that someone would expect a person
>> to sell a horse that cheaply.  Yet I subscribe to several lists - not
>> just this one - and there are lots of people all the time who expect to
>> only pay that much ($700 seems to be the break off point) for a horse.
>> I have received *nasty* emails about the nerve I have asking $5000 for
>> an extremely well trained, well behaved 10 year old mare.  I receive
>> *lots* of emails asking if we have $500 well trained 10 year old (insert
>> color and height and sex) horses.  Nobody on this list would sell their
>> horse that cheaply, but then it also seems nobody wants to pay what it
>> costs to raise a horse, either.
>>
>> I don't know.  I'm confused.  LIf
>>
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