[QUOTE=Nootka;8458029]
Nice mare. Don’t know how sound she is or why she made her way to this auction
https://www.facebook.com/751937054862253/videos/946996495356307/?fref=nf
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RNVBAxe9L2s
ETA: you can go to the link above and scroll through the sale horses. Some are interesting… some are MEHhh. Typical auction[/QUOTE]
What a lovely mare! From WEF jumpers to this auction — how very sad. 
Maybe she would make a nice broodmare for someone even if she is lame?
[QUOTE=Angela Freda;8459853]
At the end of November or early Dec there were horse that were there for a MONTH. I am not making this up, these horse got way skinnier on their watch, as we saw new pics every couple of weeks, and then when someone finally felt badly enough to buy them.
You can see for yourself on CHW Cranbury Horror Stories Facebook page…
Horror Stories page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1633257936932998/
Fresh Start page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/386067298235062/
Clearly you are defending that which you are not familiar, since there have been horses there for over 4 weeks who looked WAY worse after those weeks than they did when they arrived. It’s pretty well known that this is a concern now with this sales barn, that horses are losing weight and getting sick because they are there too long, with access to only round bale crap hay, and then having to fight with too many other horses for that hay.[/QUOTE]
What exactly are you expecting them to do? Give each horse a stall and a feeding program? I mean come on. It’s an end of the road AUCTION barn.
I wasn’t a member of that horror stories page so I joined - completely proves my point that people who don’t know what they’re doing, buy horses for cheap out of a bad situation and then are surprised when they’re expensive to rehab and claim they “got burned.” The only thing they got burned by was not having sufficient experience or financial resources to undertake the oh-so-noble rescue effort.
Meanwhile, I actually have bought horses from Frank before this whole Cranbury thing and I haven’t had a need for a charity case in my life since then so I haven’t bought from them, but I think anyone who expects a horse to live in a bottom of the barrel sales barn for a month and come out of that looking fat and happy, is delusional.
[QUOTE=soloudinhere;8460371]
What exactly are you expecting them to do? Give each horse a stall and a feeding program? I mean come on. It’s an end of the road AUCTION barn. [/QUOTE]
There’s a lot you can do, a spectrum of options between putting them all in a pen and letting the strong survive, and putting them each in stalls w/a feeding program. So yeah, I expect that they want the top dollar they can get out of each animal and to do so, the course of business is to care for the animals you have such that they are worth what you are asking until you do sell them.
Some can do well in a herd trying to get to the round bale. Others yes, they might need a smaller group with individual feeders, and others might need stalls at least at feeding time. I call that good horse management. Is that unusual to do what’s best for the animals in your care that you may want to sell at a profit either at the end of the week, or at the end of the month? Really?
So you think the horse who cost $11k to care for and still was put down would have done better in a more experienced persons care… cause the Vet hospital that had her wasn’t astute or experienced enough to proved the care she needed? That’s kinda’ my point… the owner did the best she could including getting her to a good Vet hospital… whether she quit trying to save her on the second day there or when she hit $11k is irrelevant… the relevant point is the horse was VERY sick when sold such that she ended up at a hospital. Where their best efforts were costly and not enough.
And clearly, since the purchase price charges were reversed, authorities agree.
Frank and the new owner are worlds apart, and that is saying something considering Frank could/would ship horses.
No one expects fat/happy. But emaciated and sick isn’t acceptable either.
[QUOTE=Lord Helpus;8460169]
What a lovely mare! From WEF jumpers to this auction — how very sad. Maybe she would make a nice broodmare for someone even if she is lame?[/QUOTE]
She has had at least one prior foal.
[QUOTE=Lynnwood;8460640]
She has had at least one prior foal.
http://www.horsetelex.com/horses/pedigree/116966[/QUOTE]
I started a thread on this mare in the Hunter/Jumper forum, if anyone wants to see more: http://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/showthread.php?482623-Cranbury-Sale-Stable-auction-horse-anyone-know-this-mare
Very odd. She is well bred and had at least one foal. I would be concerned she has repo problems. Just very odd …
I’m sick otherwise I’d really love to go and see what’s there. Anybody planning on going?
Someone needs that white pony!
Here is a copy and paste from previous thread:
#21
Elvis is an 8 year old, 13.1 hand medium pony gelding. He has been shown lead line through the pre children’s ponies. He has a clean lead change, great form over fences and is a 10+ mover. Safe for a beginner rider and fancy enough to be competitive on the “A” show circuit. Sells New Year’s Eve 100% sound, no vices.
http://youtu.be/PIxxLUt7jWM
I really wish they had a live feed!!!
ETA:
(Hip 1) Quarter Horse Reiner sold for $17500
Does anyone know what the mare sold for?
I would also love to know prices, if anyone was there 
If it was a few years ago, it was Camelot Auction. It’s under new management as Cranbury, and the hay/water/overall situation isn’t as good.
Any updates anyone?
What did the mare sell for? I was curious and watched some of the numerous videos of her on Youtube. In the 20 or so that I watched she probably stopped in 70% of them. Sometimes just once and then got through, sometimes twice and eliminated, and a couple where she got her rider off.
Another who’d like to know where the Silvita mare ended up. A nice mare, certainly. They were marketing her as sound. 
Tomorrow we will be putting a young filly down we purchased from Cranberry 7 weeks ago. The horse we bought and what limped off the trailer were 2 different horses. If you watch the sale closely you will see that auctioneer is in a no lose situation, he sets a price on salable horse’s and sends rest to his 10 pen. Once a horse is in his 10 pen the “rescue” groups start, he profits when they sell for him.
Horse was delivered and the price of delivery was increased when they pulled the horse off the trailer, we paid the extra. Oh they do not offer this delivery its a privet party. We were told she had a coggins, on delivery the young man said they would be mailing coggins and bill of sale. 5 weeks later we recived coggins that we were charged for, coggins was drawn on a monday, horse run in aution on wednesday in NJ. A horse crossing boarder coming into NJ needs a health certificate, if you do the math, horse was transported without a health certificate. Why is this important, she came off the trailer with strangles!
I would stay as far away from Cranberry as you can, and watch for injection sites under the hip number! We peeled number off and there was blood on the back of tag, thats a new low in the horse industry.
Why are you putting a horse down for Strangles? It pretty much runs rampant at our local low end auctions.
I don’t agree with the way Cranbury runs.
I read limped as perhaps the reason for euth, but strangles can get bad enough to euth as well, especially in young horses.
Yes through isolation and antibiotics strangles were controlled. The reason to euthanize was do to a knee injury that had been coverd. I can only say that she truly went peacefully, she is no longer feeling pain.
Thanks for doing what someone else clearly didn’t care enough to do.
Yes Cranbury is a sham… more horses out of there are not as represented than are.
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