Why do you care? What are you attempting to prove? I answered the OP’s question. If you don’t like it, whatever. Not my problem.
And just to make you happy - NONE. I don’t sell my horses because they are family members to me. Lease them out, sure. Sell them? No. But why does that matter? The question was How much is your endurance horse worth right now? And I answered that question honestly. If you don’t like that answer, then that’s your perogative but it doesn’t mean that I have to PROVE anything to you or anyone else.
And NO I have no desire to play patty cake games with online BBers. I think I specified that already. I have no interest or time to take on consignment horses from halfway across the country from people I don’t know. I don’t train and sell horses for profit.
But then that wasn’t the question of the OP was it? No, it wasn’t.
So katarine, How much is YOUR endurance horse worth, right now? That was the question. Oh oops, you don’t have one. You’ve never been within 100 miles of an endurance ride. I forgot.
I am still interested in the answers to those questions.
WHY. Tell me WHY you care. My opinion is that any sound, well trained, working horse CAN be marketed and sold for 20K TO THE RIGHT BUYER. Might take a while. Might take good marketing, good handling. I never said 10 billion people would beat down my door tomorrow. I only said it COULD BE POSSIBLE if one really wanted to do it.
If you don’t agree, you don’t agree, Whatever. Not my problem. But that is my opinion. Last time I checked, I was allowed to give it. But if you’d like to step into the role of moderator, email the Admins, and maybe they’ll promote you.
The video you recall of me was about a client’s horse. I thought he had medical issues, he just didn’t seem right to me. My long lines were pretty darn long, yes. He was not ever tangled, bothered, or tripped, etc by them. Did they touch the ground behind me? Yes. I also tied his stirrups together under his belly which freaked you out, and ran the lines through the stirrups and back to my hands. You then learned that’s pretty normal in ground driving with a western saddle. He had a mother of a BUCK on him, and I wanted long lines so I had some chance of retaining both control, and my teeth, if he broke in to pieces and launched himself. Despite being no more than 14.2 hands, I saw his midline from the ground more than once. I wanted to have a hold on him if he exploded, pretty simple explanation of those lines. Ghazzu saw it, she can chime in on the video if she so desires.
Common sense tells a person that when a horse has its face tied to its chest and is tangled up in long lines and reins and then some idjit is jerking on his face like a son of a buck, he might be inclined to protest. I was expecting the video to show some panicked freaked out animal the way you described him. What I saw instead was some slopped up hillbilly rigging and a “trainer” whaling on the poor animal’s face every time he made a move. That’s enough to make any horse fight back. Good god what did you expect? If I were that horse I probably would have killed the trainer and moved on with my life.
as for other pics or vids, they are all over this forum, have been for years. Not hard to find if you’re interested. I can’t get to Flickr or Shutterfly right now, but HunterTwo can, she knows where my photos are LOL.
I’ve seen a few here and there. Not many.
I ride trails, I ride and take lessons in dressage. I don’t do endurance.
Ahhh I see.
