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| I don't know how many ads I read on Facebook groups about horses who currently run 3D/4D times have been for awhile, but they have 1D potential of course. Also means their priced higher. This is just my little vent as this is almost every ad I see. |
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Pig-Bear Dog Lover
| Oh I know I saw a green broke 4 year old for 5500 firm.. because in two years he WILL be a 1d horse...pretty little thing but not bred anything special either (cow horse)... and not even neck reining. Just thought wow.. I can get a super broke cow horse for a 3rd of that. |
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 Undercover Amish Mafia Member
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Location: Kansas | I see that all the time......even when they are like 10 years old....get real |
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 Serious Snap Trapper
Posts: 4275
Location: In The Snow, AZ | Something I found funny,and I wont mention which city this was in, but lets just say it's a small town. It's about 3 hours from me. Small, run down area, where the horses are backyard bred mutts for the most part. Not saying anything against them or their horses, just trying to put into perspective. I looked into the jackpots they have, and the girls are running high 18's to 25's. So a 1D time would be figure 18.7 or so. Theres a woman there advertising her horse as a 1D horse clocking 1D times at the local jackpots. Asking $6,000 for a mid teen, high 18 second runner. |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | any horse can be 1d if no one else shows up to the barrel race
I have won several classes that way, lmao
I guess mine is a 1D horse too! hahaha |
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 I Chore in Chucks
Posts: 2882
Location: MD | the word potential makes me want to barf anymore.
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"Heck's Coming With Me"
Posts: 10797
Location: Kansas | My favorites are the ads that say 2D rodeo horse.
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 631
Location: Somewhere in N.C. | From what I've seen in my area, alot of 2d horses are rodeo horses. Sometimes they are more consistent than a 1d horse. I'm sure it depends on where you are.
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Expert
Posts: 1561
| nccowgirl - 2014-01-08 12:09 PM
From what I've seen in my area, alot of 2d horses are rodeo horses. Sometimes they are more consistent than a 1d horse. I'm sure it depends on where you are.
They dont have the lightening speed so they rate better on trashy ground and can carry their momentum.
But rodeos dont have Ds...Thats the posters point. |
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| Reminds me of the story of, The Green Monkey, at least I think that's his name....anyhow he was the highest selling thoroughbred ever sold at auction. The Green Monkey was bred to be nothing but an absolute running machine that on paper should out run everything else. They paid some kind of exhorbitant price for him and in the words of the trainer...."he couldn't run out of sight on a dark night!"....so there you have it for potential. |
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 Balance Beam and more...
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Location: 31 lengths farms | Hence the reason you had trouble remembering his name...and yes, it was The Green Monkey. Like maybe 16 M for him as a weanling or yearling..forget which. |
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 It Goes On
Posts: 2262
Location: Muskogee, OK | Something to remember.. "Potential" is worth what someone is willing to pay for it!
If someone is asking those crazy prices for a horse with 1D potential and can get someone willing to pay that price, good for them. Can it be annoying to see them asking such a high price? Surely. I've seen multiple ads of horses that I even know locally in my area and I'm like.. "If that horse is worth this then surely my 3D mare who outruns this horse consistently is worth way more" (jokingly..)
But as I said, worth ultimately comes down to what someone else will pay. If there's no one out there to pay it, they are either going to have to reduce the price or not sell. |
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| Pretty much the majority of the barrel horses for sale have 1D potential when looking at their papers. Too bad papers can't tell you about their heart, their willingness, their attitude etc. |
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  Damn Yankee
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Or could be a 1D horse with the right rider.
As far as the 2D rodeo horse....my best gelding will pull checks at about any rodeo he has been entered, but clocks 2d/3d on average at divisional races, though he has clocked 1D. He's a short little thing that struggles in deep groomed ground. He would much rather have concrete or pavement to run on :) |
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Extreme Veteran
Posts: 365
| If you went by papers all horses should be 1D. Most of the ads are for older horses that have probably reached their potential. But the way I see it if those horses had 1D potential the majority of them wouldn't be for sale. |
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Posts: 64
| I have a 4wd style cowbred mare and I am 2d on her at jackpots and I have entered 3 CPRA's and placed at one and was one out at another and 2 tenths from placing at the third. In TX most people can rodeo on a 2d horse. |
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Veteran
Posts: 159
Location: Central TX | THIS DRIVES ME FREAKIN INSANE!!!! YOUR HORSE THATS BEEN RUNNING IN THE 3D FOR 7 YEARS ISNT GOING TO MAGICALLY BE A 1D/RODEO HORSE AT 13 YEARS OLD!! RIDICULOS!! 
Edited by brrlrcrtx44 2014-01-08 7:05 PM
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Veteran
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Location: Central TX | also the one i love.."yeah this fillys 2 months old but she is ABSOLUTELY going to be a PRO 1D horse" No.....no she isnt going to absolutely be a pro 1D horse. i feel embarrassed for those people |
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