Re: [RC] "pound dog" mentality for horses? - Dyane Smith
A surprisingly large number of horses at the Killer
Feedlots go there accompanied by their papers showing they have been extremely
well-bred. Bad things (divorce, owner illness, etc.) happen to good
horses.
Subject: Re: [RC] "pound dog" mentality
for horses?
I heard a blurb on NPR during the olympics about one of the
horses on the US eventing team. He an ex race horse, worked as a pack horse
and was picked up by the rider for about a 1000 bucks out of the paper. He
turned into a world class eventer and represented his country in the
olympics.
Truman
Gabi (Ra'anana Farm) wrote:
We just won a show jumping competition with our
non-pedigree backyard breeding local horses, against $30.000 Dutch imports.
It was a competition between 4 riding schools.
The jumps were 70 cm.
Also about a year ago some boy win a reining
competition on a very cheap gelding his father bought him, against pedigree
quarter horses costing 10 times or even more the price of his local. The
snobs were so dissapointed that their $ horses lost from this pound horse,
that the next time they did not allow for non pedigree to
enter.
On the other hand, it is so rare that cheap
horses win it from the $ horses, that it stands out, but does not proof they
are equal?
gabi
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