Re: Endurance horse prices 1999

[California Horse Adventures <wendyl@jps.net>]

>Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:36:32
>To: ChacoL@aol.com
>From: California Horse Adventures <wendyl@jps.net>
>Subject: Re: Endurance horse prices 1999
>
>Hi Linda
>I find your comment to be something of a red herring - the point is not what
>the horse is worth so much as the attempt to educate people as to why certain
>horses are more expensive than others.
>  There are always people who are willing to pay what these horses are worth.
>I feel sad about selling my bred-for-endurance horses to people who use them
>as trail mounts only because I never get to see them do what they were bred
for.
>On the other hand, I'm happy because they get great homes with owners that
>don't take them to 100s as 5 year olds and destroy everything I've bred for
with
>their own impatience.
>Wendy   
>
>
>At 03:25 PM 1/25/99 EST, you wrote:
>>In a message dated 99-01-25 13:51:20 EST, fasterhorses@gilanet.com writes:
>>
>>> At the risk of "beating a dead.... um.... issue to death..."  Isn't it
>>>  interesting/significant that people who are trying or have tried to
>>>  breed for endurance keep talking about how much it costs and we've got a
>>>  bunch of folks who keep talking about reasons why it shouldn't cost them
>>>  very much to buy an endurance horse and there doesn't seem to be much of
>>>  a middle ground?
>>
>>In a free market system, it matters not how much anything costs to produce.
>>Anything that is for sale is worth exactly--no more and no less--what someone
>>is willing to pay for it.
>>
>>Linda
>>San Francisco
>>
>>
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