The Spanish Mustang Registry will hold its annual meeting soon and all matters that are to be placed on the agenda must be so placed by the end of this month.
Our horses have all of the cards stacked against them. Their only hope is for all of those who care about them to work together regardless of which registry they claim allegiance to. The Horse of the Americas Registry has born all of the heavy lifting in preserving the Corollas. They have also reached out to the Spanish Mustang Registry to seek to facilitate registry cooperation. In the past that request has been refused.
Now is the time for the SMR to reach out and that time is running short.
Oh yeah, this week another wild mare died at Corolla. It seems that she died of natural causes, but dead is dead, regardless of the cause. Similarly, if in seventy five years Spanish Mustangs join the Narragansett Pacer as historically significant, extinct asterisks the differences between the two registries that made it impossible to work together will not matter. Who was right and who was wrong will not matter.
The only thing that will matter then is the only thing that matters now, the horses. The difference is that they will be gone--forever.
Steve, HOA remains committed to protecting and preserving America's First Horse. We woud like to be able to work with SMR but we deeply regret SMR's recent decisions to close their registry, raise dues, enact new restrictions on registrations and generally try to get LESS eligible horses when there are less than 5,000 CS Horses left in all the strains. This is the first time in years that I have not paid my SMR membership and it really hurts, especailly considering Becky Fulcher's wonderful list in the new SMR annual of SMR's leading point earners through 2009.
ReplyDeleteKarma Farms, as always, has more SMR winners than any other breeding farm in the world--and bred or own ALL the SMR Grande Conquistadors except three. It would be a shame to let such a record become a thing of the past but I am having trouble supporting their current direction with my membership money. I wonder if getting those of us to quit who speak out against their "exclusivity policies" is in fact their goal?