GDG- A horse is a horse, or course...

[fred johanson]

Already done in college towns.


At 01:10 PM 8/25/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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>Even though I am not a horse person, that makes sense.  By elimination, it 
>would seem that most of the horses would have been geldings; mares kept 
>back for breeding and stallions being "all show".  Should we check the sex 
>of the horses on the monuments? :-)
>
>Doug
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>From: Richard M Kadas <rkadas at sbcglobal.net>
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>One must suspect that most didn't want stallions who become virtually 
>unmanagable in the presence of a mare in heat.
>   Dick
>
>"Gitt, Doug" <dgitt at state.pa.us> wrote:
>   Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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>A weird question popped into my mind this morning. For their horses, did 
>the ACW armies prefer mares, stallions, geldings or all of the above? I 
>suspect the horse breeders may have kept most mares for breeding. Did they 
>prefer geldings over stallions?
>
>Doug
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Fred Johanson
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