On 1/15/2010 1:46 PM, basilisk wrote:

He looks good, I hope he has many more years to ride, for me it is
simply not my passion and therefore not worth the risk anymore.

Thanks ... met too.

I feel your pain.

I got real tired of the "human vanity" aspect of the horse business at a
young age ... like breeding 1200 lb horses with feet that take 000 shoes
because they "look better" to some fancy pants judge.

That, plus mucking 10 to 30 stalls a day for the first 17 years of life
tends to suck the romanticism right outta of the equine "mystique".

Of course, I changed my tune again for a time in my twenties when
noticing how just many lovely young ladies were horse crazy ...

Now, I try to stay out of horse conversations, particularly with my Dad,
who will name every progenitor in the bloodline of this one, or that
one, going back 20 generations, along with how much they, and each and
every one of their offspring have won on the track, and the speed and
distance at which it took them to do so. yawn

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