Re: wise buy!/demand=price?quality=price?

[Chris Paus <paus@micoks.net>]

You guys are lucky in AZ. Sale barn horses here go for about 80 cents a
pound, so you'll almost never get even a young horse for $350, unless it
has only 3 legs....


chris paus & star

At 02:48 PM 1/8/98 -0700, Zebella wrote:
>Cheryl Newbanks wrote: 
>> yes there are tons of PERFECTLY bred arabs out there for dirt cheap whom we
>> can give another chance at life to!  Tracy isn't your $350 arab bask line
>> bred??? 
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>Yep, he's by a double Bask stud (Bask daughter x Bask son) and out of a
>Naborr daughter.  His daddy is used to breed Park horse, thank goodness
>Pro didn't get any of that!   He looks just like Naborr in every way.
>(well, minus a few appendages) <G>
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>I think it may very well be the fact that we are so close to Scottsdale
>that we have so many cheap Arabs running around.  I saw an El Sharif
>daughter sell for $300 at a auction once.  Heck, go to the sales at
>Grandon's Arabians.....you can pick up some of the most well known
>bloodlines for *under* $1000!  Lots of them are even sweepstakes
>nominated.  They sell for way under the stud fee it cost to produce
>them.
>
>You have to be careful no matter wheteher you buy a $500 horse or a
>$5000 one.  My point was that price is no definite indication of quality
>when it comes to live animals.
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>tracy
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