Re: RC: Re: KILLER HORSES

[Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com>]

Hi Sue
There is a new Sporthorse Registry that is doing just what you are
proposing, Sue. I plan to take Hal down to it (Burbank) in May. Although
there is a jumping performance test, there are exceptions made for
horses with injuries and since Hal won Regional Championship against The
Us Reserve Champion, Jezebel, I am hoping they make the exception. Some
of the owners of his get are planning to take theirs to the tests (which
are offered throughout the US) too. I am REALLY excited about this. It
has been a long time coming. Perhaps we are finally learning from the
Europeans!
Bette
Bette Lamore
Whispering Oaks Arabians, Home of TLA Halynov
http://www.stormnet.com/~woa
I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer it
gets to the end, the faster it goes. Smell the roses!


Sue Brown wrote:
> 
> >When there are people like this around, it's no wonder you breeders
> >can't get a decent price for your horses!  If he finally realizes he can't
> >keep breeding some one elses culls, or if he can't afford to feed them any
> >more, he will be forced to sell them for whatever he can get.  I'm gonna be
> >standing in line, because there is one horse on the place that is actually
> >pretty decent.  So how do you convince people like this to quit breeding
> just
> >for the sake of breeding?
> 
> I don't think you're ever going to be able to eradicate the breeder that's
> just doing it because they have an animal with the appropriate functional
> body parts (and marginal, at best, conformation)...it's the "puppy
> syndrome" (they're sooooo cute) combined with a little "puppy mill"
> attitude ("I can make some money -- sell the offspring -- cuz keepin' this
> horse's costin' me lots more than I figured!!")  These people are usually
> uneducated (in what makes a good breeding horse), intellectually dim, or
> without ethics...and there are waaay too many in this world that fall into
> that category for us to fix!  This is a fact that nobody can change on a
> overall basis.
> 
> The solution???  IMO, the U.S. would have to adopt a program similar to the
> Europeans where registerable offspring would have to come from certified
> stock (not just registered.)  The breeding stock would have to be evaluated
> and passed for the breeder to sell anything registered or the new owner of
> the offspring to ever have a chance of doing their own breeding and being
> able to register them.  At this point it should be emphasized to
> perspective horse owners that it costs the same to feed and vet a horse
> that is of questionable genetics (grade or purebred (but never able to be
> registered because it came from unapproved stock...irregardless of assumed
> worth)) as it does to feed one of approved breeding stock.  It's not that
> complicated to get the approval either -- have a good horse, show up for a
> judging, get or be rejected for approval.  There are organizations that are
> doing that now in the U.S. -- still mostly warmbloods, but increasingly
> more towards other sporthorse areas.  They just need to take it one step
> further and *require* this in order to register offspring.  Serious
> breeders *will* take the time to do this.  Again, as I said, this won't
> eradicate the problem but will help guide a lot more serious horse owners
> towards horses of approved standards.
> 
> Sue
> 
> sbrown@wamedes.com
> Tyee Farm
> Marysville, Wa.
> 
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