ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: [endurance] MSM, Adequan ...

Re: [endurance] MSM, Adequan ...

MThomp7389@aol.com
Mon, 6 May 1996 21:55:07 -0400

Shareeka wrote:
Yes, I agree with Diane, you can find the horse with everything that meets
your eye's approval, but maybe it's all just beautiful, unless you have
millions of dollars to spend, (and then do you really know what kind of
performer you are getting )? That's why there are so many thoroughbreds
bred every year that ought to be the best of the best and we don't hear
about. Trust your heart. Remember Valerie Knavey's horse CASH was only
$500.00 and obviously someone's reject, and to see him you would not go " WOW
he's perfect". Actually the first time I saw him I didn't evern notice him.
He is very plain. Somewhere I read Valerie sent her daughter to look at
this horse that was for sale for $500.00, and she said back to her Mom, I
don'tl like him but your will , he's youre kind of horse. Now look what he
has done. Plus an awful lot of endurance people that I have talked to on
rides find their horses in places you would not even imagine, which says that
to find the perfect horse is to look beyond what perfect is supposed to be.

I agree!! Monte was GIVEN to me because the owner "wanted more of a
challenge" (we've worked for 5 years to get an almost gentlemanly attitude on
the trail and STILL working!), "didn't like Arabs".
The woman I rode at Washoe got her arab (purebred and papers) for $300 from
the "meat market". And a friend of mine got her 3/4+ (16.2 h) arab the same
way.
There's a lot to be said for imperfections, the personality definitely makes
up for conformation in some way.

Mary and Monte