As long as $500 horses and horses off the killer truck keep winning Pan
Am's and WEC's and as long as track rejects - because they can't sprint
6 or 7 furlongs as fast as their barn mates - keep winning in endurance
then that is the competition the breeders have to deal with. It's a
simple matter of supply and demand and price point.
It's though to breed and compete with the large number of Arabs that
are out there. Until the supply is down or the demand is up the price
will stay down.
In horse shows the price may actually pay in the out come of the show.
In endurance, it's the first horse cross the finish line - independent
of if it cost 500 bucks or 500,000 bucks.
Truman
Nancy Mitts wrote:
All you have said is
why I thought a petition from endurance riders to AHA was pretty funny.
"We" have a reputation for wanting horses 4-6 years old, ready to go
down the trail, good conformation and disposition, and 3K is considered
"a lot of money."
As long as we brag about $500 world champions and champions off the
killer truck, that's all there will be to choose from. That, and a
dedicated few who don't need to make a profit to keep doing it. We
breed a few, mainly for ourselves, and sell the ones we don't have time
to ride. I've sold some good half arab geldings (full brothers to my
mare) to pleasure trail homes, because distance riders wouldn't pay
enough to even cover the feed I had in them. Other folks will. A
fellow said to me just a couple months ago (not a breeder), "endurance
people are the only ones I know who brag about how LITTLE they pay for
their horses. All the other horse sports brag about how much they gave
for theirs.
Nancy Mitts
-- "It is necessary to be noble, and yet take humility as a basis
"It
is necessary to be noble, and yet
take humility as a basis.
It is necessary
to be exalted, and yet take modesty as a foundation."
