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Re: [RC] How do you pick the horse? - Laney HumphreyIf you have access to older "Endurance News" issues, I wrote an article called "Buying a horse, or how to avoid 'looking for love in all the wrong places'" that appeared in the Feb., 2004 issue. In my opinion, a buyer should do a lot of thinking about themselves, how and how much they expect to ride a horse and what they think about the horse-person partnership before they start looking at horses to buy.IMHO, it is just as naive to assume that the only way a bunch of 3 year olds will differ is in conformation as it is to assume that any given bunch of 3 year old human youngsters are all the same under the skin. The most successful horse purchases come about only after the human has done a lot of soul searching about what they truly want and don't want in their equine partner. Because of how I ride, I would be terribly unhappy with a horse that had the desire and drive to be a top 10 horse just as a rider capable and desirous of top tenning would be bored to death with the kind of horse I love. Look inside yourself first; no one else can tell you the kind of horse you will be happy with! And do your best to separate your fantasies about how you would like to ride from the realities of how you really do ride. When you've done all that, the "right" horse for you will be so easy to identify! Laney Dot Wiggins wrote: Let's suppose there are a number of 3 year old horses with similar back grounds and breeding available. How would you select the one or two to put two years of feed, training, and conditioning into with the idea of having a good 50 mile horse at 5 years old. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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