RE: KILLER HORSES

["Kathy Mayeda" <kathy_mayeda@atce.com>]

There are no guarantees in breeding your "designer endurance horse" either.
You can hedge bets buy buying or breeding for conformation, pedigree, etc.
but it's still a roll of the dice.  I would hope that sometime in the near
future that there would be a market for the $5,000-10,000 endurance horse,
already made.  Not necessarily burning up all the races, but known to finish
near the top of the pack.  Then us poor folk would have to work harder.  But
we may have a chance of getting more horses bred specifically for endurance.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Lif Strand [mailto:fasterhorses@gilanet.com]
Sent:	Sunday, April 23, 2000 10:03 AM
To:	Ridecamp
Subject:	RC:    KILLER HORSES

At 01:40 AM 4/23/00 -0400, Maryben wrote:


And Rio was free...


The cost of a horse is not a predictor of it's ability to win, but it
often is an indicator of it's past.  The cost likely indicate the value
a seller or buyer puts on the horse.  True, many horses that are well
loved are transferred to new owners for free or at low cost but that's
because their value is so high there is no price possible for that
animal, but we are not talking about those horses, are we?

No, we're talking about gambling.

Anyone who wants to bet on a free/low cost horse (that is, buy it and
hope that it will do well in endurance)  is free to do so.  I guarantee
the odds are very much against finding very many Rios and Cashes out
there.



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