RE: Endurance horse prices 1999

[Cheryl Newbanks <horsetrails@inficad.com>]

On Monday, January 25, 1999 11:47 AM, Lif Strand 
[SMTP:fasterhorses@gilanet.com] wrote:
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> In other words, I think the bulk of the endurance community just wants
> any horse that will complete rides well.  While this is what sets the
> market prices, I just can't see it leading to a future of progressive
> evolution of the sport of endurance racing.   So the question is - does
> this matter?  Lif
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Lif

Good point but I don't think it does matter.  There will always be mediocre 
horses and there will always be super horses.  If you want to win and 
actually compete then you'd be pretty motivated to buy the super horse. 
 But if you are just riding for the pure enjoyment of endurance riding then 
a mediocre horse would do o.k. too.  It is exactly like the Volkswagen vs 
Ferrari analogy.  As for the future of progressive endurance riding, why 
change what isn't broke to begin with?  I'd hate to see it become totally 
commercialized and so high priced to compete that the bulk of the just 
average riders loose the opportunity to compete at all due to monetary 
issues. Just my $.02!



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