Ask the seller if her horse has a black spot or a black "X" at the top of the white spot on the nose, up under the top of the forelock. If it does, it's from the MCM sale.

I don't know if it's a common problem generally. The feedback that you've gotten here so far would seem to indicate that it's NOT a common problem generally. But several of the horses that we got for repair had that problem. Most of the horses that we got seemed to have been played with and returned to AG after the child ruined them somehow and wanted to exchange them for a new one. I don't have a sense for what percentage of our horses had this problem, but it was something that we routinely checked for, as we assessed each one for what it needed. But then again, many of these horses showed other signs of abuse as well, so maybe it's just a symptom that shows up with abuse. If I had to guess, I would guess that maybe one in 10 or 20 had holes in the skin, but I'm not sure. Last year we had about 700 Kaya horses to fix and sell, and this year we had maybe 400 Kaya horses to fix and sell, and that wasn't including the Felicity horses and AGOT horses.

Joy

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