“Note to Self” my (so far happy) experience buying (a yearling! 🤦🏻‍♀️) from Bowie Livestock

Yep needs a 100 acre yearling field! :star_struck: She was just getting started !

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I like the slip, then buck in the second video, like she was mad at herself for slipping.

I think you might have a well-bred yearling and I’m guessing, if you can find her history, that she wasn’t neglected for very long, then she had a very long 6-8 weeks going from KY-TX-quarantine-VA with possibly several other stops in between. As many know TBs can lose condition very quickly, especially growing TBs coming out of winter.

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If there is a bill of sale transfer history can her papers be had? My OTTB days were long before microchips!

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Goll-dog!! She is something else :heart::heart::heart::heart:

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That little girl sure hit the jackpot with her new digs, and her new mama

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If she has papers I doubt if they went with her. If I can positively identify her through microchip and DNA, then I could pay to have her registered I think. Maybe.

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If she has a microchip from the JC, doesn’t that mean she is already registered?

My heart just exploded! :heart_eyes: She is showing ALL her TB in that second vid for sure! Legs for daaaayys! Happy happy girl!

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No, I had one a few years ago that was chipped and the number was recorded with the JC but the registration wasn’t completed. But the chip told me the sire and dam and breeder.

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She really is a lovely mover! What a gem!

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Holy smokes she is gorgeous, what an eye you have! And she hit the jackpot, I think * I * would live out in that field :smile:

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I love this photo.

Even ribby and underdeveloped, boy, is the underlying bone structure terrific!

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That’s the advantage of seeing them thin. You can really eyeball the bone structure and angles! Her neck looks a little short in this pic but I love her hip and shoulder.

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Necks change! The rest doesn’t!

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I think the neck is the last to grow so it has some time… if what I understand is right.

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Yep, hip and shoulder are fantastic, nice elastic movement even at a bit of a gangly stage.

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I love when she bucks after she slips on the wet grass. She’s stylin’ it out, like, wheeee, totally meant it!! :rofl:

I’m many time zones ahead but so excited for the Thursday appointment to see if she’s chipped.

I have to echo others and say, you genuinely have a good eye. Quite impressive!

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What a lovely girl. Can’t wait to see her journey with you!

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I love watching Nosey gallop around that big field just for the fun of it! It’s wonderful that she already feels that good. :slight_smile:

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I bought the ISH mare in my profile pic as a well nourished three yo, and the only thing I could fault her for was a somewhat short, somewhat underdeveloped neck.

It is completely different as a 5 yo.

If her breeder could have predicted what she would look like at 5, when she was 3…I would have had to pay more money for her. :slight_smile:

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