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Re: [RC] selling horses - Chris PausExactly!!!!
As has been noted here before... some riders will spend tens of thousands on a truck and trailer, buy all the best gadgets and tack, but pinch pennies on the horse, the most important part of the equation! It IS frustrating when you're trying to produce good quality horses for the sport.
chris
Linda Nichols <aidenn1@xxxxxxx> wrote: I have never been able to make any money selling horses. No one wants to pay for all the time and money invested in a good horse. $500 a year just for food for 5 years is $2500 just to feed the dang horse. Where?s the stud fee? Where?s the vet bills, the shoeing, the hours spent training the horse to respect you and lead up nice? Where?s the months of training under saddle? The hours spent conditioning the horse? Someone else said it costs about $500 to take a horse to a ride, how are you going to recoup that? Those people who want a conditioned, campaigned horse for $1000-$1500 obviously have no idea or any clue and no knowledge of horses AT ALL. They are raw beginners, not worthy of your horse, not capable of riding your horse safely and sanely. They will take your horse and ruin all the work you put into it and run it into the ground. That kind of person wants an easy way into this sport. Endurance, it?s about the owner as much as it is about the horse. "Slowee, slowee catchee monkey," Rudyard Kipling, from The Jungle Book
Chris Paus
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