This message is from: Mike May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 05:04 PM 9/28/98 +0000, you wrote: >This message is from: Marsha Jo Hannah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Meredith Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I myself am very interested in the old American pedigrees that say >> things like 'a Purdy mare' etc. I would love to hear that story. > >I'd also like to hear the Purdy story. I know that he was an early >breeder of Fjords, before there were any registries in the US. What >is not clear is whether his record keeping was non-existant, or if the >records were "lost" (fire, excessive cleaning out when he died, etc). >Someone has obviously tried to reconstruct his breeding program, based >on what he told the people he sold horses to, and/or the recollections >of people who worked for him. From what I see in the NFA studbook, in >many cases, they narrowed it down to Mare A or Mare B; in others they >just threw up their hands and said "one of Purdy's mares". > I don't really know a lot about the "Purdy Mares" either. I know the mans name was Bob Purdy and he did breed some horses back in the very early days. I believe but am not sure that this was before Harold Jacobsen started with them. There was also some horses at the old Broadmore Hotel. It was in Colorado I think. I don't know very much about them either. Maybe we can get Storrs Bishop to write up some of what he knows about them. I know he knows more about them than I do.
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