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We have had 2 orphan foals over the past decade & sent the first one to a friend who already had 2 orphan foals. She put an antique mare in with them & the grew up with few issues. We raised the 2nd...

I read an Ag Department study a few years ago that said hay is a VERY local market - and availability, quality, and price can vary from county to county, as well as in different regions.

Having...

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Euromaker - 2007 model, just 6 starts. Very nice, but between Unbridled's Song's ankles &...

Around here, not so far from Penn, the euthanasia & carcass removal was under $500 a couple years ago. I remember shortly after that, seeing the PA Dept. of Environmental Protection (or...

Some racing partnerships send the horse through public auction & allow both partners to bid on it. The one with the most money & determination gets the horse. However, some times the one with the...

There are some lines of TBs known to throw bling: Northern Dancer is one, especially via son Storm Cat's kids. Turn-To, of which she has several lines, is kind of a wild card where TB color comes...

I second what Louise says. You really can't judge much from a photo & the photographer is generally working under both time constraints & limited ability to stand the horse up the way it should be...

Pretty. She definitely didn't want to be a race horse, but Artax, her sire, wasn't an especially successful sire, although he was a great racehorse himself.

Marquetry, her grandsire, put some...

There's a legal phrase 'res ipsa loquitor' (might be misspelled) which means "the thing speaks for itself" & is often used when a patient goes into surgery & gets a surgery they didn't expect - a...

Actually, at least in my part of PA, I don't know of any 4-H Clubs that take horses. The horses are privately owned by the kids in the clubs. Some leaders will loan their own horses, typically...

Condolences to his family & friends. We sometimes forget what a tough way this is to make a living.

Welcome to Pennsylvania! Below is a link to the Bucks County Conservation District & it has links to the SE Regional extension office, among other things.

http://www.bucksccd.org/useful_links.htm

Are you looking for TB or AQHA or AQHA appendix, or only for appendix QH?

In fairness, while I don't know how many they post with CANTER, they DO post some -

We called about a mare (who had just gotten on a truck to FL when we called - and I think that mare really DID...

Ironically, a former Michael Gill-owned horse is alive & well at our farm . . . our home-bred who went to a trainer but never made it far enough to hit Gill's radar is the one who is MIA.

Re: Penn developing a retirement program.

If anyone on or reading this thread gets to be in charge of a retirement program at Penn - please PM me. I'm in. You might be able to use all the help...

Well, there are also the breeders who might give a thought to helping re-home rather than breeding to sell & hope to sit back & collect the breeders' awards. (And I say that as a breeder who has...

I used to love to watch her at shows!

Condolences.

At one place I boarded - some hunter/jumper riders, gaited, trail riders, my dressage horses & jumpers . . . a complete mix . . . we had what I always referred to as a jockey's picnic table - a...

Nah - not to me. But maybe not to that particular vet, either.

Yes! They let someone like me interpret the ultrasound - I always see lumps, bubbles & interpret them like a Rorschak ink blot . . . Fortunately, my vet is good. I'm not sure the same can be said...

Ah, memories. When I was a horse-crazed little girl, my parents took the annual trip (all of 1/2 hour away) to Hempt Farm or Hanover Shoe Farm, where I'd adore the foals & pet (when the groom wasn't...

Were you ever in Pennsylvania? I remember when I boarded at my trainer's barn, once going into the ring to school and a ship-in lesson - a rider with a completely blind appy - came into the ring. ...

Pick a trainer who is a stickler for the basics & can explain to you how they will affect the rest of your rides up the levels. (For one thing, that kind of trainer will remind you to use the...

Big, pretty and, as has been noted, can be dingbats, especially when young.

They need more "grow up" time than a lot of other TBs. Which is why by the time they get to be post-track projects,...