Posts Tagged ‘free horses’
Breeding Trainwreck Du Jour!
Everybody got your Breeding Trainwreck Checklist ready?
Fantasy-related farm name:Â CHECK! “Paradise Flats”
Hairy rare breed of horse: CHECK! Shagya Arabians. Here is the breed’s website to learn more about them. They are actually pretty cool horses.
Multiple stallions:Â CHECK! Four of ‘em
Issues with Having A Real Job:Â CHECK! Nancy Skakel, the Breeder Failure of the Day, left Illinois after she defaulted on her educational loan and lost her nursing license.
Issues with Actually Caring For Horses:Â CHECK! Reported one missing in 2005 after “not seeing it for several days”...wtf … seriously who the HELL are these people who do not look at every horse every day?
Issues with Paying The Mortgage (And Multiple Court Judgments) Before Making More Horses:Â CHECK! Just search “Nancy Skakel” in the Washington State Court Records.
Issues with Paying Other Necessities (Like Car Insurance) Before Making More Horses:Â CHECK!
The farm’s address also comes back to a Huntingdon Investment Co., which is an Oregon corporation that currently has a service address in Florence, a long way from White Salmon. Wonder what that was about and if it contributes to the train-wreckage here?
They’re free for the taking – sounds like the Sheriff got her to surrender them and he wants to auction them April 16th if they don’t have homes, so please do go and get them if you have space. As you can see, we have some old pictures and some that are probably recent. They’re not starving yet but I’d assume “not up to date on anything” is a safe bet. OF COURSE four of the mares are bred…’cause when you’re in foreclosure, you should TOTALLY make more horses! Why ever not? *head explodes* Poor ponies, the place looks like a pit. 
Download a PDF of pictures and details
Anyway, I will say she did one thing right – most are BROKE or at least have had their groundwork. Hoo-fucking-ray! For once. So if you would like a nice BROKE Shagya Arabian, contact this person who is helping them find homes (serious inquiries only, please, don’t annoy the poor woman if you’re not serious about it):
Nancy Carlson at nancyjane@hrecn.net
If you’re local and you know more about what happened here, of course I’d love to hear the tale. She sounds like someone who hid it well as she was pretty much a major player and an authority in the Shagya world as recently as last year.
How Not to Long-Line or Longe
And now they are free on Craigslist. NO! REALLY? I can’t imagine they’re not worth a million, zillion dollars after all the high quality training shown in your video. Â Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time doing the wrong thing ALL THE TIME!
My head hurts.
Oh draft horse fans…
Someone posted this to another board that I am on and it is upsetting me, too. If you are in Tennessee and have a soft spot for drafts and/or some blind horse experience, please consider helping this mare.Â
http://knoxville.craigslist.org/grd/1354286319.html
Right now I figure she has a 50% chance of the kill buyer and a 50% chance of a crappy backyard “sport horse” breeder, and I don’t like either outcome.Â
