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I may be incorrect but it seems that the pool of horses that can jump 1.6m classes is much bigger than the pool of horses that can comptete at a 4 *.
Is that because money makes developing 1.6m horses more worthwhile or is it because 4 * eventing requires a super specialized (and rare) skill set?[/QUOTE]
Spruce Meadow’s CN classic - One million dollars.
And Germany and Holland breeding tens of thousands of horses a year made for the job.
But I do think that 4* horse are hard to come by as we are not breeding them.
