-> Thanks!  I've been snooping the net, but the only thing I found @as
-> rec.equestrien and the Pet Care Forum, @hich also has a vet service for
-> horses.  I'll check this out!  BT@, if anyone else has horsie sites on the
-> net they kno@ of, please post the info here.
        rec.equestrian is about the only newsgroup (similar to
Fido's 'echo') that is general horsey discussion.  Please be
prepared with your suit of armor if you post to rec.equestrian.
There are a few people there who delight in firing up their
flame-thrower...and a couple who seem to have no goal in life
other than to try to make themselves look good at other's
expense.  (Did I mention that sometimes they fail...>...)
Not vastly different than some parts of Fido, but certainly not
what you're accustomed to if you've spent a lot of your hours on
the net reading and writing in -this- echo.
        (For a preview, I suggest you spend some time in the
'Law' echo or the 'politics' or, if you can access it, one of the
sysop echos... > )
        I guess there's something on AOL...maybe on Compuserv,
too...I don't go there.  There is a horse racing newsgroup, a
rodeo one, and one (I think) alt.vet.medicine or something like
that. If you want a complete list of newsgroups, go to
http://www.yahoo.com oR www.webcrawler.com (or any other search
engine) and tap in newsgroups...you'll get references - chase
those...and away you go... your server may not carry it, so be
prepared to whine until they do or vote with your feet...  
        ohmygosh...You don't really want aLLLL my horse
BookMarks, do you???
Karen Pautz' page (Mike gave you the address below) is a great
place to start...
         ...there's also an English site (Aberdeen University
Riding Club) which was apparently the grand-daddy link site.
        http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~src011/list/index.html/
http://owl.frontier.com/pedigree/
        Thoroughbred Pedigree search.  Not complete database, but useful
        all the same.
        Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any similar kind
of page for any other breed.  The AQHA has a webpage, but they
charge for pedigree searches and don't allow anyone to do it on
their own.  They're at:  http://www.aqha.com/
MM> Try:
MM> www.freerein.com/haynet/
        If you add 'index.html#toc' after the last forward slash
('/'), you skip past some junk (my opinion) and get directly to
the listings a page...
        oh...and http://users.why.net/mjjacks/receq.htm
        - brings up a FAQ (frequently asked questions) that was
pulled out of rec.equestrian (the newsgroup) - questions put to
the group and the answer(s) posted in response.
MM> www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/horses/
        mmm...or replace /breeds/horses/  with  /library/equine.html
        If you haven't been there lately, Mike, you should...it
keeps improving.
        There's also the Chronicle of the Horse. I thought I had
the URL, but couldn't find it in my list.  Time to re-read some
of it, I guess.
MM> www.monashee.com/fjord/gateway.htm
        A Fjord Horse Pony site, no doubt.  Haven't seen this
        one...will take a look.
MM> The first one has links to a lot of others too.
        yes...and there was another good catalog site, but it
        just died... [so-goes-the-net]  :o
        This is hodge-podge, but maybe you get the idea.  I think
it's really wonderful what you can find.  There is an incredible
amount of horse related stuff and resources.  Equestrians
worldwide seem to have taken to the world wide web.  This is good
in a lot of ways...not so good in a few others...   ;)
        The moral of my story???  The moral of my song???  While
there's some good 'stuff' n the internet, there's no equivalent
to this echo...none so gracious and genuinely polite - even when
you disagree.  I guess that's a sort of:  Good Work Bob...
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