Another thought…as for “flipping” sale horses…it takes a whole lot longer to produce a horse who will hunt safely - NOT even considered “made”, than it does to produce a saleable show hunter/jumper/event horse. When you go out on a hunt prospect you are fairly committed to survive the day’s hunt as opposed to flubbing a round in a show ring!! It’s a shorter walk to the trailer at a show!! A horse being a fool in the hunt field is a lot more dangerous than one acting up at a show or event! JMO
I really appreciate everyone’s candor. Thanks for all the replies! This thread has given me a lot of food for thought.
If you like the horse in question, and it is fairly priced for WHAT IT CAN DO, why begrudge the seller who made it into that nice horse the fair value of the horse?
If you like the horse, and the price is in line with other horses with similar skills, does it really matter if the seller pulled it out of a backyard for $3,500 and is now selling for $30,000 six months later? No. The seller found a good horse, trained it up nice, and now the finished package is available for you and you like it. Why begrudge the seller?
If you really feel that such a markup is ‘unfair’, beat the bushes for the $500 ottb and make up your own nice hunt horse. Six months ago you too could have bought that seller’s same horse and made it up yourself -voila, no markup.
sometimes it is the horse
depending on the persons ability to keep the horse between their seat and the ground, some lack of polish can be tolerated IF the horse has absolutly NO soundness issues or has other positive aspects.
my previous horse [photo in my profile] NEVER lost a shoe in 9 years of hunting.
strong, forward, eager to go, lots of energy
never a sick day prevented hunting.
and his pulling improved my lower back strength dramatically.
they all have trade-offs, some problems can be corrected, some can’t
ware too many that can’t and save the time and effort and $
for those that may make a good field hunter.
