Thank you Grace and Major!
THANK YOU to Grace and Major for the care package of Candy Canes 
With muffled waffled whinnies,
DUX
You are welcome, Dux!!!
About the Australian TB-
Please can someone please get me in touch with whoever has the bay TB gelding with the brand on his shoulder??? I brought that horse over from Europe and retired him to Vermont and he is no longer at the farm there- It is Rolling Thunder and he is Australian, not Austrian. I am so appreciative to the people who saved him at the auction and would just like to speak to them about him. I have his passport and USEF registration. I can’t believe this happened!
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Please can someone please get me in touch with whoever has the bay TB gelding with the brand on his shoulder??? I brought that horse over from Europe and retired him to Vermont and he is no longer at the farm there- It is Rolling Thunder and he is Australian, not Austrian. I am so appreciative to the people who saved him at the auction and would just like to speak to them about him. I have his passport and USEF registration. I can’t believe this happened![/QUOTE]
If you scroll back a couple pages there is a link to that board/thread and you can probably sign up there and contact the person who has Rolling Thunder.
ETA here’s the link to the thread
http://www.equiman.com/forums/ubbthr…=118054&page=1
What a story! I am sure those of us here would love to hear what you piece together happened to him, when you get it sorted out.
Thank God it appears he too has found a safe place!
Ok…23 pages later, tears in my eyes…I think Tazer needs to write this old boys story. Hey, Black Beauty was about a wonderful horse and his complex journey to old age. I am the owner of two old TB’s hunters, (25 and 27), I understand the difficulties in paying for proper care. But, I sleep well at night knowing they get hay, grain, a stall and a warm blanket on cold nights. Tazer, there is a special place for people like you and I think we all know it did not matter a bit if Your old boy was famous or not…he is finally, and I mean FINALLY where he was meant to be, Lucky, Lucky fellow. Good on Ya’ Tazer.
Goodness - Rolling Thunder too? I remember watching Ronnie Easey ride him many many times. Ronnie was somewhat unorthodox in his style. He was a brave big horse.
Tazer, I sent you a message
Rolling Thunder
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Please can someone please get me in touch with whoever has the bay TB gelding with the brand on his shoulder??? I brought that horse over from Europe and retired him to Vermont and he is no longer at the farm there- It is Rolling Thunder and he is Australian, not Austrian. I am so appreciative to the people who saved him at the auction and would just like to speak to them about him. I have his passport and USEF registration. I can’t believe this happened![/QUOTE]
I posted on EMG that you were looking for the current owner of RT. I cannot find the original thread any more, but hopefully someone will see my post.
Good luck!
ETA: The new thread as well as the old thread were apparently deleted at the request of the horse owner. I hope somehow you can still get in touch!
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I posted on EMG …
ETA: The new thread as well as the old thread were apparently deleted at the request of the horse owner. I hope somehow you can still get in touch![/QUOTE]
I wonder, current or former owners request?
Interesting.
I agree
When I could not find the original thread, I started another one… then it too disappeared, so I pm’d a mod. I was told “closed at the owner’s request”. I cannot remember who posted about the horse in a thread about November Rain, but it was not the owner… someone boarding at the same barn. So I can see “maybe” that it was a breach of privacy, but still… a bit strange to me.
Why wouldn’t anyone want to find out stuff about their horse, unless they know it all already??? hum…
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Please can someone please get me in touch with whoever has the bay TB gelding with the brand on his shoulder??? I brought that horse over from Europe and retired him to Vermont and he is no longer at the farm there- It is Rolling Thunder and he is Australian, not Austrian. I am so appreciative to the people who saved him at the auction and would just like to speak to them about him. I have his passport and USEF registration. I can’t believe this happened![/QUOTE]
OMG Maggie - what happend to RT? I’m sending you a pm.
ok…I’ve got to jump in here. I tried to pull up the $500 olympic horse AD and its gone. I have not set here and read every post.ALL I know IS supposingly just recently there was a man that got a job at a local facilty . He had a 18 yr old “olympic horse” that was a jumper and looked terrible. the man raised him and has fallen on hard times.I just heard that he is now at another local barn with this horse and a fancy pony he owns.I know his first name .It just sounded like a coincidence.I was wondering if the original poster knew where the horse was located from the ad before it was taken off.
thank you
Tazer- Thank you for giving TM what he deserves. Food, shelter, love and nothing expected of him. He is a gem and a very special creature.
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Tazer- Thank you for giving TM what he deserves. Food, shelter, love and nothing expected of him. He is a gem and a very special creature.[/QUOTE]
So where did he go after you had him? (by you I mean at your barn) isnt’ that his last know residence.
WINDYWILLOW Dux is somewhere in his mid to late 20s so I doubt he is the same horse. He has spent his last few years in the Northeast showing in the AO/Jr jumpers. Dux never really had a chance to be retired before he was offered for sale as a “western pleasure/trail, 4-h prospect”.
WOW. I just read all 23 pages! Congrats Tazer! You not only did the right thing, but you will be rewarded 10 fold.
Last year I was shopping for a broodmare for a client to breed jumper foals. We found a nice mare and when I traced her back, she had been purchased by the previous owner at a Great American Insurance auction for peanuts. GA had purchased her to buy out a Loss Of Use policy. We traced her back to Margie Engle’s barn. She did GP showjumping in Europe and then NY before cracking her pelvis. We contacted that owner after making sure we had her. They were thrilled to death that she was ok - had no idea when they took out a loss of use policy that they would have no say over what happened to the mare. The story ends well, the mare is sound, has a wonderful home and was approved into the highest book at her mare inspection and is in foal for a jumper baby.
I hope one day to find one just like your Nov Rain. When I decide to get back on a horse, I want it to be one of those older “been there done that” boys that can lug me around once or twice a week and eat hay forever.
So, the underwriters take possesion and AUCTION THEM OFF?:eek:
The underwriters take them or may make a deal with you if you want to keep them (although at a greatly reduced payout). The horses sometimes wind up in a good situation as the one mentioned above and sometimes they wind up as research subjects.
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So, the underwriters take possesion and AUCTION THEM OFF?:eek:[/QUOTE]
did you think they had a nice big farm somewhere where all these unsound horses get to go live out their days?
It’s all there in the policies, people just need to read them.
With my company you can get the full payout and they take the horse or you can take a percentage and keep the horse. No way would I let them take any of mine.
UPDATE?
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did you think they had a nice big farm somewhere where all these unsound horses get to go live out their days?[/QUOTE]
Why isn’t there?
If owners were willing to give just a small percentage of what they paid originally for the horse and what they spent on showing to retire that horse to such a place… why wouldn’t they?
If one built it, would they come?
