Re: 15 yr. Grey SE Nabiel daughter with melanoma: Worth buying?

[Tara Wheeler <harpy@io.com>]

Title: Re:  15 yr. Grey SE Nabiel daughter with melanoma:  Worth buying?

> From: guest@endurance.net
> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 08:20:32 -0800
> To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Subject: RC:  15 yr. Grey SE Nabiel daughter with melanoma:  Worth buying?
>
> Karen Webb kwebb@gssb.com
> I have found a lovely, coming 15 year old, grey, straight Egyptian Nabiel
> daughter, but she does have melanoma.  A few lumps under her tail and one
> below one ear.  The price is $5,500.  I have no prior experience with
> melanoma and will of course, have a vet exam done.  However, it seems like
> a large number of grey horses have this condition and continue to do quite
> well.  True?  Anyone have experience with the condition in grey/white
> broodmares?  Thank you.

Jeeze, $5,500 for a fifteen year-old horse with melanomas?

Surely there's a better deal somewhere?

I know of at least one grey horse that's got terminal cancer, but you'd never know it by external exam.

I'd pass.