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I am sick of waiting for what I want. Both Parisa and Sarah have GTP interviews and I now have to hold my breath in hope I will too. I'm very jealous of them, but then I'm happy in my job and have chosen the difficult path. I told myself, "There's is for an English placement. You want to teach History. If you don't get a place this year, you'll damn well get one next year. And what is a year when we're talking your whole career?"
I've enquired into a few young horses lately, three months before I intended to because I'm sick of seeing others with their horses and not having something that is entirely mine. I love Bracken to bits and he'll make a fantastic horse to ride for the forseeable future but I'm thirsty for my own project.
Anyway I'm arranging my first viewing. It's for a Warmblood X colt that will make 16hh (aka - big horsey bred for show jumping). It's £500 or nearest offer. However, it has a lump on its hock from an early injury. Zoey suggests I have it x-rayed if I like the horse, because £500 is as cheap as you're going to get a Warmblood and for the extra cost of an x-ray it'll be worth checking. The other thing would be to haggle down the price to £350-400, take it, x-ray it when its a bit older, then if there is an underlying problem I could sell it at peak time and get my money back. Worse case scenario is that it'll only ever be used as a companion horse, but even they go for £300-400. Best case scenario is that the lump is only a blemish and it can go on in any field other than Showing (aka where you doll your horse up and trot it around a showring) which isn't something I want to do anyway.
So - exciting stuff! Shall let you know how the viewing goes.
I've enquired into a few young horses lately, three months before I intended to because I'm sick of seeing others with their horses and not having something that is entirely mine. I love Bracken to bits and he'll make a fantastic horse to ride for the forseeable future but I'm thirsty for my own project.
Anyway I'm arranging my first viewing. It's for a Warmblood X colt that will make 16hh (aka - big horsey bred for show jumping). It's £500 or nearest offer. However, it has a lump on its hock from an early injury. Zoey suggests I have it x-rayed if I like the horse, because £500 is as cheap as you're going to get a Warmblood and for the extra cost of an x-ray it'll be worth checking. The other thing would be to haggle down the price to £350-400, take it, x-ray it when its a bit older, then if there is an underlying problem I could sell it at peak time and get my money back. Worse case scenario is that it'll only ever be used as a companion horse, but even they go for £300-400. Best case scenario is that the lump is only a blemish and it can go on in any field other than Showing (aka where you doll your horse up and trot it around a showring) which isn't something I want to do anyway.
So - exciting stuff! Shall let you know how the viewing goes.