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Re: [RC] buying, selling, breeding, producing - Kristene Smuts

The only other country that comes close is Australia, IMO--and they are now 
starting down the same primrose path that American breeders did 20+ years 
ago.  Meanwhile, their "old colonial" sorts of horses (very much like the 
various "preservation" groups here) have been cleaning up all over the world 
in endurance--in fact, I'd wager that the UAE is now buying more horses there 
than here, simply because they can FIND more of those sorts of horses for 
sale there now--or at least, one doesn't have to sort through as many horses 
to find them....>>


<pout>  Don't forget South Africa!  We have some wonderful horses here, but as 
you pointed out above, the same is happening here - the show circuit, the 
"preservation groups" AND the UAE buyers.  We have a very small Crabbet pool to 
choose from and the few of us who love the line, do what we can to try and 
preserve it, within reason, of course.  Because the pool is so small, the 
danger is in not having enough diversity and some Crabbets are starting to look 
like small drafts.

Many of our top horses have been bought by the UAE and as you also mentioned, 
never to be heard from again.  We now run into the very real danger of selling 
all our good stock which will leave us with the less than good breeding 
material for our future horses, as I pointed out in a previous post under this 
thread.  And yes, there are riders who train with the sole view of selling 
those horses on to the big buyers.

The UAE agents crawl like ants all over the riders at the National 
Championships, offering ridiculously high (to us) prices for the horses.  It's 
very hard to say "no" to a forceful salesman!

Kristene
South Africa


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