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Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] Horse Buying/Selling - Ridecamp GuestPlease Reply to: Nicole z_arabs@xxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== You can find a $1000 dollar horse that will be your partner for 10 years as easy as you can a $10,000 horse. There are no guarantees that a $10,000 will work out any better than a $1000 horse. I've seen several horses that people paid $10,000 for not work out and I've seen many horses people paid $1000 for work out. Sure, because most of the $10K horses will be show ring rejects, not bred to do anything remotely athletic. And most people breeding FOR endurance end up selling their babies cheap because that's what the endurance riders want - cheap. The Arabian market continues to treat geldings in particular like trash. The best use for many well-bred geldings (by that I mean bred for performance) will be as a distance horse. But, endurance riders don't want to pay more than $1000. So, breeders are stuck between a rock & a hard place: sell them cheap or keep putting more money into them. Breeding is a labor of love. Some of us keep going dispite the way we're treated and the attitudes we hear about how some horse found at the killer pen is just as good as what we're breeding. Some horses at the killer pen are there through no fault of their own, and they do deserve a second chance -- but, after all the money that will actually go into that horse, it won't be any cheaper than what a performance/endurance breeder has available. Those of us who keep breeding do so because we love the breed and don't want to see it handed over entirely to the show ring fads. ~Nicole =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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