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<blockquote data-quote="Bez+" data-source="post: 700797" data-attributes="member: 6797"><p>I will give you the normal maintenance is higher in harder used horses - but this guy is used once and sits until fixed - a big difference.</p><p></p><p>With all the time and money invested you might have been better off to go find a new horse - there are trained ones out there as well. Some just about going to a new home for the cost of air.</p><p></p><p>Bet you have spent more than a couple hundred - probably more like a couple plus thou on this guy - not includingn up keep as an additional expense. Plus missed and lost competition costs. All in all this guy sounds like a possible pretty expensive can - even if he comes back now. </p><p></p><p>Emotional attachment perhaps?</p><p></p><p>Potential is fine, but if it prices itself out of the market then it is not worth it - even as a game it is still a business decision. And this is a two year problem with a pile of vets behind the problem according to you.</p><p></p><p>Unless it pays for itself it does not stay - so yeah - I am not in the game I admit - but the game either pays for itself or the game is pure expense. And that is no longer part of the plan in my - or many - others house.</p><p></p><p>Just proving my Dad's favourite expression: "The only thing cheap about a horse is the purchase price".</p><p></p><p>Be that as it may - your decision - just expressing an opinion - and as before - good luck</p><p></p><p>Bez+</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bez+, post: 700797, member: 6797"] I will give you the normal maintenance is higher in harder used horses - but this guy is used once and sits until fixed - a big difference. With all the time and money invested you might have been better off to go find a new horse - there are trained ones out there as well. Some just about going to a new home for the cost of air. Bet you have spent more than a couple hundred - probably more like a couple plus thou on this guy - not includingn up keep as an additional expense. Plus missed and lost competition costs. All in all this guy sounds like a possible pretty expensive can - even if he comes back now. Emotional attachment perhaps? Potential is fine, but if it prices itself out of the market then it is not worth it - even as a game it is still a business decision. And this is a two year problem with a pile of vets behind the problem according to you. Unless it pays for itself it does not stay - so yeah - I am not in the game I admit - but the game either pays for itself or the game is pure expense. And that is no longer part of the plan in my - or many - others house. Just proving my Dad's favourite expression: "The only thing cheap about a horse is the purchase price". Be that as it may - your decision - just expressing an opinion - and as before - good luck Bez+ [/QUOTE]
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