RE: [RC] When a horse is marketed as "Sweepstakes eligible" - Jannelle Wilde & Adam Falk
If you ride fast, you can make good
money. If you don’t and the horse can’t, well, don’t bother
making it part of the equation.
J
Jannelle Wilde & Adam Falk
584 Romie Howard Rd.
Yoncalla OR 97499
541-849-2460
866-241-1531 (toll-free)
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From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Beth Leggieri Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 6:05
AM To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] When a horse is
marketed as "Sweepstakes eligible"
I see Arab endurance prospects listed as "Sweepstakes
eligible" from time to time and wonder how much should that affect the
horse's selling price.
In checking the rules on AHA site, one has to finish in the upper
range (Top Ten or Top Five) -- correct? But I am very curious what the
actual payout is for endurance horses. For show horses, it might
help offset (ever so slightly!) the amount of dollars invested upfront
(training, boarding, costs associated with showing, costume on top of the
usual vet, shoeing, etc. fees). But for endurance horses, is this
realistic? For the length of time required to bring a horse up to that
level of competition and with the costs associated with the number of
sanctioned rides necessary to produce a horse with that level of conditioning?
So the question is, why should "Sweepstakes eligibility" be a
factor in buying an endurance prospect. It does not appear to make
economic sense to allow that factor to affect the price--even for the FEI-level
competitor (which I'm not-! I take the "To Finish is to Win"
phrase to heart!).
Am also assuming that to date the vast majority of the
Arab "Sweepstakes" horses are either showbred or racebred.
