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At 03:56 PM 8/3/2004, Aaron Turnage wrote:
> I would appreciate any suggestions or comments anyone
> might have.  It's hard to part with a very much loved
> companion but this new guys has POTENTIAL written all
> over him.

First thing I'm going to say is that the following is *my opinion* only - 
if no one likes it, delete it, but don't get on my case.

Second thing is, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.  If you think 
you've got a hundred mile horse in the pinto, that's more than you know 
about the Arab, who might not be a hundred mile horse (some aren't, you 
know), and might not even be a good endurance horse.  You think your pinto 
might not be a top ten horse but you don't know that he isn't a top ten 100 
mile horse, now do you? You have to decide how important that is for you, 
if it's important enough to consider selling what you know you have for 
something that *might* be an improvement, that you won't even know is an 
improvement for a year or more.

Third thing is - and this is what might be controversial - that I hate it 
when horses are treated like motorcycles, that is, they're treated like 
they're replaceable by another, better model whenever another model comes 
along.  You may have very good reasons for considering this Arab, but 
exactly how important is it for you to have a *potential* top ten horse - 
important enough that in two more years, when he's six, you might decide to 
replace the Arab if he doesn't work?

Am I saying *you*, Crysta, would do that, or that you consider horses to be 
like motorcycles?  NO!  It's just my own first reaction to your question.

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