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Our Quest #39
an occasional newsletter for davenport enthusiasts
copyright April 1999
used by permission of
Charles & Jeanne Craver
Craver Farms
Charles & Jeanne
Craver
Rt 2 Box 262
Winchester Il 62694
(217) 742-3415
email
Old Geezers
 The December,
1998, issue of the Registry News includes a listing of the longest consecutive
and current members of the Arabian Horse Registry. Twenty-one members are
listed as having belonged for the years 1949 to date. The listing includes
a Davenport breeder, Charles C. Craver III, who, by virtue of survival,
is thus recognized as an old-timer. Of the other names on the list, at
least one is of a dead person and several represent organizations rather
than individual owners. There are undoubtedly a number of dististinguished
breeding operations which are not included because of technicalities in
how they appear on Registry records.
If any young
person wants to provide for a long record of ownership of Arab horses for
heirs and assigns, it would be a good idea to take initial membership in
the Arabian Horse Registry, using a legal persona such as a trust or corporation
so that succeeding breeders are listed as the same as the founding breeders.
Of the entities on the current list of "longest consecutive members,"
perhaps Michigan State University, which is almost eternal in the United
States, will outlast all the others.
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