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RE: [RC] [RC]Horse Buying/Selling - bobmorris

Lif states <<<<Do we have any studies which would 
support one point of view or another?>>>>

Getting any one to do valid studies of endurance horses is
very difficult. The marketing factor is so low that there is
not much interest. A researcher cannot "make themselves a
name" in the endurance field.

The AERC has a fair sized funding for research grants. I
have been trying to get established entities interested in
doing research that we can fund. So much of the research
field is esoteric and not applicable to endurance. We need
researchers that speak our language, non-technical that you
and I can absorb.

Bob

Bob Morris
Morris Endurance Enterprises
Boise, ID 

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Subject: Re: [RC] [RC]Horse Buying/Selling


At 06:39 PM 7/20/2004, Truman Prevatt wrote:

The number of variables in this sport are large and I

suspect at the 

end
of the day there is not one best type of endurance horse.

In truth 

endurance is not one sport that requires one type of horse.

It is a 

multitude of sports - depending on the climate and terrain

that requires a 

multitude of different talents in a horse.


That is true about track horses - some do well in mud, some
on turf, some 
on a dry track, etc.  But we don't say they are different
"types" of flat 
track horses, we say they excel under certain conditions.

If flat tracks aren't considered different sports depending
on climate and 
footing, which do require different talents, why would
endurance be 
considered "a multitude of sports" when there's different
climate and 
terrain.  This is so frustrating!  Do we have any studies
which would 
support one point of view or another?

________________________________
   Lif Strand      fasterhorses.com
           Quemado NM USA


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