> Well I can tell just by reading your message that you know a bit more
 > about
 > them than your letting on.  I mean a non-horse person doesn't have a
 > clue about
 > leopard Appaloosa's.  I know from experience that you can't live with
 > horse kids and not have some of it rub off on you.  ;-)
      No, true there.  However, my eldest is 23.5, and I've put up with the
horse thing from her for about 19 years now.  She got her first horse about 
6-7 years ago, a thouroughbred, but it died (brain hemorrage) maybe 4-5 years 
ago, so about a year later she bought a quarterhorse stud with the insurance 
money. A couple of years later, she bought a filly yearling quartherhorse at 
an auction. She really lucked out, as the filly has grown into a fabulous 
mare (her words).  Last summer, she went deep into hock, and signed the 
mortgage for 40 acres, a 1250 sq. ft. house, garage, barn, and tack shed, 
about 10 miles west of here. Then my other daughter, 11.9, decided she *HAD* 
to have a horse of her own, so the two of 'em together ganged up on Dad.
      I wouldn't know what a leopard Appaloosa was, except I heard the girls
talk about it.  As far as horses go, my mind's a sponge (shaddup Kohl), and I 
soak up what I hear.  Unfortunately, when it's squeezed out, it usually 
doesn't make sense.  :)
                       .....Bob
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