Was the former owner Tony?
If that is Tony’s “Sir Gasperon”, this is the story that he told me (I HOPE I am remembering this correctly).
Tony went to a Hanoverian auction in Canada (Ontario?). He purchased Gasperon (call name) as a young stallion WITHOUT papers. The owner came to him afterwards and offered Gasperon’s “papers” for several hundred dollars more. As this was a bank-ordered dispersal, the papers (I believe) were supposed to go with all the horses that were sold, but the owner had “lost” all of the horses’ papers. Unbeknownst to the bank, the owner had the papers and was trying to get some money for himself without the bank’s knowledge.
As there were NO Hanoverians in Western Michigan at the time (and I don’t think there were that many, IF ANY, other types of warmbloods), Tony said “No” to the former owner. I THINK that Tony’s idea was that 1/2 Hanoverians weren’t registerable, and therefore, paying money for the papers (which the owner SHOULD have left with the horses) was a waste of money.
Gasperon was bred to a variety of breeds early on, and as I remember, the foals produced were pretty nice (I saw a number of pictures) from whatever they were bred to—Quarter Horse, Appaloosa, Thoroughbreds, etc. Later on, I think that Gasperon had the opportunity to be bred to some warmblood mares–I think Tony himself bought a few.
This is the story the best that I can remember from that long ago.
