Re: [RC] so what, after all those years and all those finish lines,made th... - Laney
Recognizing a horse's potential and allowing him/her to reach it with
some other rider is part of good horsemanship. Kind of like "the
product is greater than the sum of its parts." When the partnership is
right, both horse and rider grow and bloom; when it's wrong both suffer
and shrink.
Laney
Nancy Sturm wrote:
That is so very true!
I bought an off the track TB
once out of a farmer's pasture for $450. I did a couple of years
training, took him to some clinics, showed him a few times and sold him
for a nice profit to a young man who sold him a year or so later and
then that horse hit the horse version of the big time. He ended up in
a hunter jumper barn in Pebble Beach, Ca after being sold for what was
in those days a small fortune. The difference in his being a $450 slow
race horse and a very expensive three day horse was having the right
owner. And it wasn't me.
If I had owned Cash
or Rio or Lain, I'm sure none of you would have ever heard of them :)
That is what I told the AHR for their article. Becky
offered to sell me a stupid looking little brown horse for $500. If I
had bought him Rio would only be known as the horse that killed
Maryben.....
