Re: RC: RE: KILLER HORSES

[Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com>]

Hi Kathy
That was my price-range that I was asking of endurance buyers, but for
untrained or green-broke. (It would obviously cost tooo much to put
miles on them for that price). Surprised? I never expected the usual
endurance rider to spend more than 5 or $6000 for my horses--- at least
not at this point (ahhh, more would be nice.... to get paid for one'
labor...someday...)
Bette

Kathy Mayeda wrote:
> 
> 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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Bette Lamore
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