Re: RC: Breaking two year olds to ride -Reply

["GESA BRINKS" <gesaeqfx@pe.net>]

Yeah Heidi,  You called it.  Well said.  I thoroughly enjoyed the article on
Bazy.      gesa n clovis
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From: CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com <CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com>
To: ColleenO@jhc.com <ColleenO@jhc.com>; ridecamp@endurance.net
<ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 9:15 AM
Subject: RC: RC: Breaking two year olds to ride -Reply


>In a message dated 9/21/99 6:53:40 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
ColleenO@jhc.com
>writes:
>
><< I would bet quite a few, I really don't think we should honor a woman
who =
> mass produces and "sells her culls" off as much as she does. >>
>
>Just for the record, Colleen, Bazy is FAR less guilty of this than the
>majority of "large" breeders in this country.  Having been involved this
past
>year with Arabian Horse Rescue Network, it is a rare thing for an Al-Marah
>horse to find itself in such a situation, whereas other big show ring names
>show up there at a dime a dozen.  Bazy has long emphasized "using" horses,
>and most of her "culls" will at least make decent riding horses.
>Furthermore, Bazy makes an attempt to start youngsters under saddle so that
>they CAN be sold as riding horses--an effort which is all too rare in our
>industry.  I, for one, applaud a program where the "culls" can be "sold
off"
>as rideable registered youngsters instead of flooding the horse feedlots as
>unhandled, unregistered nobodies.  The very fact that she HAS a training
>strategy for young horses illustrates her commitment to producing useable
>horses.  Bazy is also one of the biggest activists in IAHA for cleaning up
>the drugging, the David Boggs sort of abuse, etc., and is working hard to
try
>to change how IAHA judges are educated in hopes of improving the
conformation
>that is expected in halter classes.  I think you are barking up the wrong
>tree here in throwing stones at Bazy for her "mass production"--I'd rather
>have folks with her knowledge and commitment breeding 30 a year than 30
>breeders with one cull mare producing one cull baby a year by the horse
"down
>the road" with no thought to its serviceability or future, or breeding to a
>grandson of the current "fad" sire thinking they are going to "make a
buck."
>
>Heidi
>
>
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