Re: RC: RC: Show horses

[DVeritas@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/8/00 12:51:25 PM Mountain Daylight Time, 
michrowe@frontier.net writes:

<< I am simply advocating not bashing a class of horses as a whole.  
Apparently
 my point is lost in this forum.  I give up, I must be wrong.
  >>

Don't give up.  And as far as being "wrong", I don't believe it's a matter of 
who's right, or who's wrong.  
    In my experience in the show world, it wasn't so much how the halter 
horses are built as it was how they were raised from weanling to say, three 
year old and how that methodology translates into whether a particular halter 
horse can ever become a relaxed, willing partner (in whatever performance 
endeavor.)
    I have seen, and been bested, by horses in endurance who didn't have 
perfect conformation, but somehow, a management system for that particular 
horse was implemented and applied that keep them going and going.  That is 
wonderful.
    But when the mind goes from years (note plural) in the show world, well, 
an effective 'management system' is harder (not impossible), but harder to 
come by.
    The earlier a horse leaves the halter world, I believe, the better.
    So, pluck on,
          Frank.