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>I am, through your conversations, more sensitive to your situation -- =
but at
>least for now, will continue to look for a bargain. Perhaps I will find=
in
>time, that my "Cash or Rio" is not readily there, and will have to fork =
out
>$2,000 + for a good prospect that will be with me for a long, long =
time.
I have to agree with you, Truman and Tina. I bought Kahlil without ever
having seen him, as a three-year-old, for four hundred dollars.
You can study bloodlines and conformation all you want, but there are
still many intangible factors -- no one can reliably predict that "this
horse will be a Champion" or "that horse doesn't have what it takes"
until they've been proven in competition.
I'm eager to get back into endurance competition (read: racing) so this
time around I'm prepared to pay a few thousand dollars for a horse who's
already had his foundation conditioning. I'm neither willing nor able
to pay ten thousand for a "proven" horse.
There is another aspect to this: how do you know the "proven" winner
hasn't already been over-trained, over-ridden or over-campaigned, and
have internal damage that will shortly end his career? I believe most
of the high-mileage horses were one-owner horses throughout their
endurance careers.
This same fear has made me wary of horses off the track -- if they've
been run fast young, will they last for 10,000 miles of endurance? Does
anyone know of any horses that started on the track that went on to high
endurance mileage?
--=20
Joe Long
jlong@mti.net
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