Looking for a horse

[Buffymommy]

I spoke of this before, but I thought I would bring it back up. I have a friend who is looking for a horse. SHe would like to get a bay mare off of the track. She is kinda being specific about the color and gender because she just lost a mare that she had gotten off the track a couple of months ago. She retrained this mare herself and had her for over twenty-five years. She adored this mare. She would like to get back into hunting again so the horse would have to be healthy enough to train to do this.

I really don't know how to go about this. She has been checking some of the websites, but doesn't really have a lot of money to spend for the horse. Does anyone know of any trainers/owners of racehorses down here that maybe looking to sell or find homes for their "retired" racers that may not have been fast enough or had the desire for racing?

Anyone have any ideas? Do you kind of have to "know" people to get a good deal on a retired racer? She doesn't mind it coming straight from the track as she is looking to repeat what she did before.