Re: forwardness, attitude

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Bridget:

We at Morris Endurance Enterprises can answer a few of you questions.

<<<Are there any Arabian endurance breeders on-line (yeah, there's san)?
Small market, but growing slowly. I can think of only Rushcreek & Trad
horses, and then there are a few small breeders that don't look at
performance details when choosing mates. How many horses bred that have
competition records?>>>

There are a number of breeders of endurance horses on line. We do not count
the Trad line as endurance horse breeding though as the sales pitch is
predicated on one horse only, Flirt, owned by Dean Jackson but started in
endurance by us.

We have started many endurance and R&T horses that have "made a name in the
sport". Sur Abdi (R&T champion with the Wadsworth family), Champagne (only
mare in the AERC Hall of Fame) Messauds Peeco (5000 miles in top ten with no
pulls, 1990 WEG) and many others.

We have bought some, traded for some and bred for some. The breedings of top
endurance horses to top endurance horses have not really produced top
endurance horses. How ever every horse we have started and then sold has
had a solid record of experience in endurance riding.

The market for good endurance horses in this country is limited. Most people
want a winning horse, not over seven years old, child safe and are willing
to pay $2000 as top price. Yes, I know there are some exceptions but these
are far between. We are now out of the breeding end of the game as we can
buy a good young prospect and do the training and conditioning for fewer
dollars than incurred in breeding our own. To make money on a home bred
trained endurance horse the base price must be a minimum of $6,000 and few
if any will pay that price.

Guess that says it all. As qualifiers over the past 20 years, we have ridden
our horses in over 26,000 miles of competition, have posted better than 96%
top ten finishes and have ranked locally, regionally and nationally in the
standings for many years. We have a record of every training hour ridden for
the past 20 years on every horse we have had and a record of every ride
entered with the results. Guess that would be called a bit of overkill but?

Bob Morris
Morris Endurance Enterprises
Boise, ID

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