Re: wise buy!/demand=price?quality=price?

[Susan Evans Garlinghouse <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

A few years ago when my filly was growing up in Santa Ynez (ritzy horse
country in Central Coast California, where Michael Jackson has his
ranch, etc---my filly lived there but *I* had to commute three hours
from Reality to go visit her! :-D ), right next door was Magness
Arabians, the largest pure Poliish herd outside Poland.  Some of the
most stellar Polish and Russian horses you ever saw in your LIFE and in
1990, they were still putting 150-200 babies on the ground every year. 
They kept all the fillies, but weaned the colts quite early and sorted
out the future halter perfection prospects from everything else.  I saw
dozens and dozens of spectacularly bred and built young horses whose
only fault was being just another grey, or a bay with kinda funny uneven
white on his face or whatever.  Anyone asking could take their pick for
about a hundred bucks or so and get the papers when they sent back proof
of gelding.  Whatever didn't sell this way in large part ended up as
lion food at the San Diego Zoo (no kidding).

I know of several people that picked up a baby this way and although
they had to raise the baby from scratch, ended up with really nice
horses that would have been excellent endurance prospects.  Just another
tidbit to throw into the pot, for what it's worth.

Susan




Zebella wrote:
> 
> Cheryl Newbanks wrote:
> > yes there are tons of PERFECTLY bred arabs out there for dirt cheap whom we
> > can give another chance at life to!  Tracy isn't your $350 arab bask line
> > bred???
> 
> Yep, he's by a double Bask stud (Bask daughter x Bask son) and out of a
> Naborr daughter.  His daddy is used to breed Park horse, thank goodness
> Pro didn't get any of that!   He looks just like Naborr in every way.
> (well, minus a few appendages) <G>
> 
> I think it may very well be the fact that we are so close to Scottsdale
> that we have so many cheap Arabs running around.  I saw an El Sharif
> daughter sell for $300 at a auction once.  Heck, go to the sales at
> Grandon's Arabians.....you can pick up some of the most well known
> bloodlines for *under* $1000!  Lots of them are even sweepstakes
> nominated.  They sell for way under the stud fee it cost to produce
> them.
> 
> You have to be careful no matter wheteher you buy a $500 horse or a
> $5000 one.  My point was that price is no definite indication of quality
> when it comes to live animals.
> 
> tracy