A Good Horse Is Never a Bad Color by Mark Rashid

Author:Mark Rashid
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510741805
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2019-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

NOTES FOR BUYING A GOOD ONE

Buying a good horse has always been quite an art. I was lucky in that when I was young, Walter took the time to show me how he looked at the horses he was thinking about buying and how to decrease the chances of getting ‘taken’ in a potential horse deal. For years I have used the ideas I learned from him when I went to buy horses at auction and from private individuals and feel as though I have fared pretty well with the horses we’ve bought. I’d have to say that the vast majority have worked out really well for the jobs we needed them for, and the ones that haven’t worked out were actually pretty far and few between.

That isn’t to say that we haven’t bought horses that haven’t worked out, because we have. It’s just that by taking a little time, learning something about the seller and the horse they are trying to move, it’s much easier to weed out the good ones from the bad… both when it comes to the horses and the sellers.

Still, one of the things I wish I would have said in this chapter that I didn’t at the time is that no matter how careful you are about buying a horse, or even how careful you are about selling one, sometimes things still just don’t work out. These days when I need a horse, I usually buy from one or two individuals or auctions that I know and trust and that I’ve had a long working relationship with. And when I sell a horse, I try to place the horse I’m selling with people I know or people who have been recommended to me by someone I know. Even then, regardless of how careful we are about buying, every once in a very great while I will get a horse that, for whatever reason, just doesn’t work out. And every once in a very great while when selling a horse, regardless of how careful we are about getting the right horse to the right buyer, for whatever reason, the horse just doesn’t work out for the people who’ve bought it.

So like I said, there is quite an art to buying and even selling horses. But even so, the thing to keep in mind is there will always be those little imperfections in even the best of any art. My belief is that it’s actually those imperfections in the art that make the art what it is. It is also my belief that it is those imperfections in the art of buying and selling horses that make that process what it is, as well.

In my experience, I’ve found the secret to buying and even selling horses isn’t picking the perfect horse or perfect buyer. It’s finding a way to appreciate and learn from the little imperfections the art itself provides.

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