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AM 6/14/00 -0400, Debi wrote:
Forgive me for jumping in here, but I beg to
differ with your thoughts above.
I don't think a wired horse should be
so easily dismissed. You just never
know...
There
are always exceptions to the rule, but there are some pretty good rules of
thumb about what is desirable in an endurance horse. When looking for an
endurance prospect, you try to find a horse with the highest number of traits
associated with endurance success. You of course don't just dismiss any
horse that has lots of good traits because of one bummer trait - but
then the trick is to determine how much of a handicap this will be, and
whether or not you can/want to deal with it. Being wired obviously
doesn't prevent a horse from endurance success, nevertheless I don't think
anyone would recommend *seeking out* horses that are wired as endurance
candidates.
As far as type A horses, as Heidi has pointed out,
some can be that way and not let it become a major handicap. Other
horses get carried away by their behavior into metabolic, behavior, whatever
problems that can result in pulls, not wins. I'm sure there are more type A
horses with ordinary or worse records than there are ones that match CBS
Redman 's record. I could be wrong of course (it happens!), but I think
if everyone remembers what ridecamps are like after the initial minutes of
settling in, *most* of the horses there aren't acting like Type A's.
Most are settled down, munching hay & gazing around. The pacers,
fretters, screamers, backhoes, etc. are not only the exception to the rule,
but nobody wants to camp next to them! Lif
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