Re: Endurance horse prices 1999

["Jerry" <hikryrdg@evansville.net>]

Maureen, Some helpful reading on breeding.  Order the book "The Estes
formula for Breeding Stakes Winners by Joseph A Estes.  Yes it is about
Thoroughbreds but the concepts carry across to our game.  A quote from the
book "Pedigrees are useful only when we are ignorant of the merit of the
individual and not very useful then.  The more we know about the individual
and its progeny the less we need to know about the pedigree.  When we have
a moderately complete record of the individual and its progeny, the
pedigree becomes useless."  So you can on cold winters evenings sit around
a read for entertainment all the pedigrees you want.  That will not make
the horse run faster or longer or drop quicker than its cousins. Jerry
Fruth

Hickory Ridge Arabians web page:
http://www.evansville.net/~hikryrdg/

Standing JABASK KNIGHT
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Maureen Mathisen wrote...
>Truman,
>
>Of course papers aren't AS important in a gelding, but as far as I'm
>concerned, they are  still important!  I want to START with knowing the
>history of the horse I am to ride because this is the "raw material"
>that  will  hopefully produce the  kind of endurance horse I am willing
>to put all the time and money into!  In other words, it is the first
>STEP in  the program!  This is why lines are important--and geldilngs
>are the ambassadors of the breed and often of their "family".lines..
>
>
>ALSO-- if it turns out that the gelding is NOT the horse I want, it is
>still much easier to sell a registered gelding than an registered one! 
>AND--should the new buyer want to particiapate in many of the "breed"
>association programs, they must show "papers" for points!If you have
>none, you will eliminate many markets.
>
>Maureen
>