It is always very difficult for us to find out the history of "horses for slaughter". First, we hear what the horse dealer tells us. Pergamon, he said, was a horse that should have been slaughtered because of its poor performance, so as not to disgrace its noble lineage. Pergamon was to be slaughtered in Eastern Europe, the horse dealer told us. Later, we learned from visible scarring that he had had bone chips surgically removed. We also noticed a slight ataxia. Uninteresting for sport. But not as a grace yard horse for Gut Aiderbichl.
