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What is with mare prejudice?
If you say it is because they become  too weird during season,  please give 
some personal experience because we currently have 7 mares under saddle and 
that simply is not our experience in the real world.

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I have always been a fan of a good gelding but I have  owned and ridden some 
very nice mares.  I just finished a season of shopping for a backup horse, 
having decided that my sweet Icelandic mares just are not cut out for 
distance riding.  The majority of the horses for sale at reasonable prices 
were mares.  After looking at a lot of horses I bought a five year 
Anglo-Arab mare.  She's a lovely animal, very well bred on both sides. 
he's had six months training with an excellent trainer who described her as 
"a great little mare."  She was very inexpensive.  She'd been for sale for 
about nine months and I was the first person to go out to look at her.  The 
seller was a few weeks off from donating her to the local high school 
equestrian team.

Regumate is a legal drug you can use for a mare who exhibits unpleasant 
heats but we notice that, like female distance runners, mares who are very 
fit and getting the kind of conditioning endurance horses normally get have 
very reduced "marish" behavior.

Nancy 



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