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was able to reduce some of his costs; for example, he estimated
that stud fees would be $1,500 and that it would cost $3 per day
to feed each horse. The stud fee for breeding petitioners’
horses to McDannald’s horse, Rumadii, was only $500. Petitioner
bought hay from his neighbor and paid to have it cut and baled,
reducing the daily cost of feed per horse to 51 cents.
The business plan included horse pedigree listings and
descriptions of some Arabian horses. It also included
petitioners’ plans for breeding and showing the horses and
building facilities for them. Petitioner concluded that they had
to raise extraordinary horses to be profitable. Petitioner
studied the bloodlines and history of Arabian horses back 100
years. He traced the ancestors of one of petitioners’ mares,
Vendalita, as far back as possible. He believed that he could
learn how to breed better horses by studying Arabian horse
genealogy. He believed that it would take him 10-13 years before
the activity would be profitable, in part because it can take up
to 5 years for an Arabian horse to reach maturity.
Petitioners have been members of the Southwest Missouri
Arabian Association, the International Arabian Horse Association
of Missouri, the American Horse Show Association, the Southwest
Missouri Horse Show Association, and the Arabian Registry since
1991. Petitioners are registered as breeders with the Arabian
Registry.
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