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RE: [RC] Selling Horses/AHA Stat - Kristen A FisherThat statistic really chaps me [among other
things].
The AHA has been throwing that around IMO to create alarm
to "stimulate breeding" [the stat they are using is that 75% of registered
Arabian horses are 16 or more year old]. Yet there are some SERIOUS flaws to
their logic [you have ALL heard about lies, damn lies and
statistics].
1. How many of those horses in their late teens/older are
actually still ALIVE? A trainer I know has owned/bred roughly 25-30 horses
over 20+ years; 25% of the horses in her name in the Registry are deceased. But
there's no reason to spend time doing paperwork to send to AHA to indicate that.
They need to scrub that data of deceased horses before they use that statistic
again.
2. How many of those horses represent what was TRULY the
overbreeding of the 80s and early 90s?? Why should we be striving for those
numbers again when everyone knows there were too damn many produced - much more
than the market could bear?
3. This does not take into account people that breed and
ride Arabians and have no use whatsoever to register them with the
AHA.
We have just been discussing that you can by an Arab for
anywhere from $300 [for that rescue] to $30,000 to $300,000 and ANYWHERE in
between. Anyone that wants to can go out and buy an Arabian at any price any day
of the week. That would indicate to me that the market is
being served.
JMNSHO
Kristen in TX
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