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Location: KY | AQHA reg 4170054, foaled March 14, 2001
Edited by rose 2008-09-26 9:38 PM
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Location: Decatur, Texas | Tch, tch, tch Rose, shame on you. But with eyes like those you might try exorcism. |
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Location: MI. | He looks like a nice horse. How tall is he? |
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Location: KY | hey Longrider, he doesn't even blink at the flash going off in his face! Gone, he is 15 hands even.....would love to get him to someone who will use him and love him.....he is a nice horse. |
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Location: central sierra nevada foothills | What color is he registered as? He looks as if he's chocolate. I have a mare that I call my "chocolate pony", as she is the color of a herseys candy bar. Her papers have her as chestnut, I would call it a brown, or dark brown. |
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Location: KY | He is registered black; the flash seemed to bleach him. Here is another pix with him on the left next to my 16 mth old filly and 28 in mini. |
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Location: central sierra nevada foothills | Oh yes, he is black.... |
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Location: KY | cowpony01....perhaps yours is a "liver chestnut" a very nice color |
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Location: Memphis, TN | Hey Jan....NICE loking boy ya got there. Looked for y'all at Buck Creek St. Jude ride last week in Alamo. My count was 397 horses on the trail and we raised 33k for St. Jude. Left my camera at home,  , but we had a good time. I've retired my Mustang from long trail rides an took my lil boy on his first BIG ride. He is 5yr. old, 16.1 hands, Red Dun. He did real good except when he encountered a blue barrel with a black garbage bag in it. Blue barrel alone is ok but that black garbage bag has boogers in it.  http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh206/Ike1154/myhorses5-08.jpg"
Edited by Ike 2008-10-03 9:25 AM
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Location: KY | Ike, great picture! Have you noticed that black seems to be the color that bothers most horses? I wonder if it is because it does not reflect the light like other colors. Or maybe they think it is a very deep horse swallowing hole, attempting to be disguised by a blue barrel in order to swallow a poor unsuspecting horse...hmmmmm |
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Location: KY | Hey Ike You all interested in camp/riding at Mammoth Cave? DBarK is a really nice wrangler campl we would love to meet up with you all there! |
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Location: Memphis, TN | Hey Jan. Maybe next yr. We've pretty much got our hunting, fishing, camping, trail ridin' mapped out for this fall. Did y'all move to Ky? |
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Location: KY | Yup, moved here this summer. |
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Location: KY | ok folks......There was an anti slaughter poster or 2 on here in the past; so here's the challenge! This horse has NO BAD HABITS.......no reasonable offer refused....will deliver within a reasonable distance......Step up anti slaughter people.....or this guy is going to be dinner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Central Arkansas | At least he rides! We just GAVE away a good looking AQHA registered Colonel Freckles & Sons Rey Jay grandaughter. She aborted twice this year and we didn't want her to go to the killer sale. I feel like we did right by the mare. |
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Location: KY | Since there are no slaughter plants in the US, I am planning on cutting him up myself and putting him in my freezer. |
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Location: missouri |  Hey there, before you start cuttin... We can find a place for him. seriously. Folks shouldn't breed and put them on the ground if they can't commit to raising them up (humans included)... |
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Location: KY | Well,I didn't breed him....I bought him as a 4 year old for my nephew, who has now married and moved, so I have a a well trained registered quarter horse who needs an owner who will spend some time with him and give him a job. I have my own saddle horses; do not need this horse, but he is a good horse and has no bad habits. |
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Location: missouri | He looks like a nice horse. gelded? I have a niece who is looking for a good horse with good temperament that travels well...tell me how he has been trained and used for so far, please. |
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Location: KY | CJ, I just sent you a pm. Hope to hear from you. Thanks. |
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Location: La Cygne, KS | The horse market is flooded with weanling to 5 year-old inexperienced horses. Just because someone says a horse is Broke does not mean to me that it is a trained horse. And around where I live it is mostly Quarter Horses and Paints. I laugh at the breeders of so called Foundation AQHA horses and the justification for continuing to breed them based on those lines... dime a dozen.
I live 3 miles from two AQHA super-sport horses. There are tons of bred mares and yearlings/two-year-olds. I don't get flooding the market with more horses becuase of bloodlines etc. More is not better. Where is the market to buy those babies???
Additionally, I have a foundation AQHA breeder and a Paint Horse breeder 1 mile from me and both have given yearlings away this fall, but continues to breed on.
I have very nice Actual Southern Sunrise daughters that are trained (1 is working on level one dressage), but I refuse to breed when I know the market is down and most very well trained horses are being sold for a fraction of what they would have brought a year ago.
Yes, Dressage horses and eventers are still bringing fairly good amount of money, but that is a segmented market and does not reflect the larger pleasure horse market.
I'll just keep riding my gals and enjoying the horses that I have as long as I can take care of them. However, with the market the way it is and the job outlook for employment is shaky I have looked at ways to find homes for my horses in case we become unemployed and as last effort need to part with some of them. I think a lot of folks are in thinking along these lines too. It is very scary right now and unfortunately the horses that are continuing to be brought into this world are the ones to suffer.
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Location: Coconut Creek, FL | excellent post - wish more people felt the same way you do. Just cause a mare has a uterus doesn't mean she should be bred and most colts should undergo "brain surgery" and not be left intact.... Another issue are the hoarders who continue to take in more and more horses, don't feed them properly, allow them to breed constantly, and produce foals with bad conformation, no training, etc resulting in horses that have no value. Sigh... the horses are the ones who end up suffering. |
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Location: washburn, il | I just sent you a PM regarding purchasing this horse. My friend told me about it so I decided to look into it and am def. interested |
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Location: KY | CJ and Truckergirl: have sent you pm.... Started to write "pms" as plural of private message but thought not. I am laughing at my own pun.........Hope to hear from you all again. And I do thank you for writing. |
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Location: Southern New Mexico | Hopefully you get your guy sold. I've got a filly thats been up for sale for a year now. She may go to an auction between here and Dallas when I help my sister move in December. I just don't have the room for her. Any one know of anygood auctions between NM and Dallas? |
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Location: KY | I still need to get Bill's Easy Six adopted/sold to someone who will have the time to ride him and keep him busy. He needs more personal attention than he gets here; that is, he really needs his own assigned human. He is a good horse, well taken care of, just needs a new home. If anyone is interested in a solid, sound AQHA registered gelding, please contact me. P.S. It is interesting to visit the "adoption" sites and view the "adoption" fees for sound horses....they are far from "free."
Edited by rose 2008-12-18 8:30 PM
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Location: Southern New Mexico | Noticed that have ya.... I looked into adoption years ago but if I'm going to pay that much for a horse I'm going to OWN it. Not just pay to borrow and take care of it like the contracts lay out. I also looked into fostering when we lived in TX, we had the room, but they don't help pay for any expenses. They expect you to care for the horse like it was yours and when it is adopted out you are just out everything you put in. |
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Location: KY | I am bringing this thread back up because "Gone" is looking for a trail horse and this guy is still available....he is a great horse and needs his own human! So please help me get the word out.....he is advertised on the classifieds on http://www.horse.com/ with pictures.....thank you all for your help!
Edited by rose 2009-01-23 10:17 PM
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Location: La Cygne, KS | I would use other horse classifieds like Dreamhorse, Horsetopia, Cowboyway etc. Take a really nice pic of him (kinda hard right now since they all look like Chewbacca with the long winter coats) and post it to these sites. Takes a little money in advertising to sell a horse now days. But a good solid trail horse should not have a problem finding a new home. The down side is you just might not get the money you are wanting for him (which I don't know his price), so I'd weigh his happiness in being useful and loved by someone versus the money and the continued costs he is costing you to keep him.
Edited by ponytammy 2009-01-23 10:39 PM
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Location: KY | ponytammy.....thank you for your kind words......I am looking for a good match for him so that both horse and human will have a long and happy life together. |
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