The Virgin Dubble
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Horses are there for a reason!
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Not always! I've known of alot of ex racers go there who have fairly minor injuries but whose owners refuse to wait whilst it has 4/5/6 months off.
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I agree - particularly in relation to young thoroughbreds.
Youngstock that don't make the grade for racing, are often shipped off to the abbatoirs. Nothing at all wrong with them, but it's easier to send them off and get paid out immediately, rather than go through the rigmarole and cost of working them, then the palava of selling them.
An aquaintance of ours has bought a few decent point to pointers from the meat man.
On the whole though, most are there with good reason, and it's not the ideal place to go horse buying. (Say's the woman who frequents the horse sales....
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Horses are there for a reason!
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Not always! I've known of alot of ex racers go there who have fairly minor injuries but whose owners refuse to wait whilst it has 4/5/6 months off.
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I agree - particularly in relation to young thoroughbreds.
Youngstock that don't make the grade for racing, are often shipped off to the abbatoirs. Nothing at all wrong with them, but it's easier to send them off and get paid out immediately, rather than go through the rigmarole and cost of working them, then the palava of selling them.
An aquaintance of ours has bought a few decent point to pointers from the meat man.
On the whole though, most are there with good reason, and it's not the ideal place to go horse buying. (Say's the woman who frequents the horse sales....