Re: RC: buying without riding

["B.E. Jackson" <riosanbravo@hotmail.com>]

.If you are one of these people, why do you buy those
 > horses?

I was poor and had more time than money.

 >would you ever buy a horse you went to see in
 > person,> that could be ridden, but didn't ride?

Um, I bought a horse over the phone once, sight unseen...He was a greenbroke 
two-year-old, registered APHA TB/cross and the owner only wanted $350 (cash) 
for him. Since it was my sister's boss who was selling, I thought "What 
could go wrong?" Hel-lo, LOTS. What started badly for us (oh, bucking, 
rearing and some stinko ground manners—once he tried to mow down my five 
year-old son at feeding time) turned into a decade of problems detected, 
solved and much improvement seen. I just sold him recently, at the age of 
12, for about seven times what I paid for him. More importantly, I passed 
along a well-mannered, pleasant, trail companion with a sweet personality. 
If horse ownership is a journey, then this one was definitely the E-Ticket. 
Dang I miss him...Sometimes you do get the bear.

Bonnie in AZ
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