This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joel a harman) Who is going to say what registries are "approved"? I am unfortunate to have horses registered everywhere because of the pissing matches & un professionalism of those "in power" on the various boards of their pet fjord registries. "For the good of the breed" - bull____! For the stroking of the ego! It is enough to make me sell all my fjord horses ( since NO self-respecting man has "ponies").
To those of you that have heard about this before - I apologize. I purchased an unregistered stud colt in '88. I went to register him - doesn't matter where( if you are so inclined contact me privately & I'll tell you). Oh he needs to be bloodtyped. Wonderful! $500 & 3yr later I still don't know his dam. When I finally get a match I send in money for him & 3 other horses for registry. In the meantime I don't advertise horses for sale because I don't want to pass problems on. Then I get a song & dance that horse won't be registered because the registrar says it doesn't matter if bloodtyping is correct I - at my expense - have to track down horses in Sweden & Norway to get samples from them. I had already tried that with no success. Of course the BOD says you match the dam & that horse will be registered. Of course the BOD members I contacted knew nothing about it. As an aside this stallion placed 4th in the stallion class in Libby in 88 as a 14 mo old. That was before classes were broken down further by age. Jon Hegdal & Dave Klove (sp?) were judges that year. The only reason I can see for worrying about registering a gelding is to know bloodlines. If we are so concerned about pure fjords why are fjords with spots registered? I have been told that spots denote out breeding at some point in time. Please correct me if I am incorrect in this assumption. Who is to say what is appropriate handling? Maybe some horses (ponies?) need a FIRM hand. Maybe we could abolish ALL registries & start over with only ONE registry. Oh I guess EGOS won't allow that. In closing I would like to thank Carol for bringing something relevant to discuss instead of how someone taught Fifi to sit stay & rollover. Joel Harman ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
