erika wrote:
FTF I think it's the person's intended use that has people scratching their heads.  If he planned on campaigning her in AUS and adding her to his breeding program that would make more sense to people. 

I believe the possibility of using her for more than a trail mount was brought up.

Also I find this comment
"It's only viewed as "a bit crazy" by those who don't believe the value of a particular horse can actually be higher than your average backyard horses and crossbred rescues. It makes perfect sense to those whose stricter selection criteria are met by certain horses. "
To be pretty darn condescending. 

Why am I not surprised? The truth often offends when it's not sugarcoated. Are you are speaking for everyone else here? If you are, you did quite well by them. You pulled out the correct attack card that says, "You are being condescending". Therefore, my response is to you, but will apply to all.

And that's coming from a girl whose horse was sired by the top point earning stallion in NA in her breed (who recently sold for $40 000). 

That doesn't automatically make your horse worth $40,000. He may be and he may not be. 50% or more of the horses from ANY given bloodline aren't of a breeding quality level, so just because a horse is by a big time sire doesn't make that foal instant high quality.

There is also a very good chance that my horse won't leave my back yard and will serve no purpose other than my own personal pleasure mount for the rest of his days.  And I don't even have boatloads of money!  But this "No one recongnises quality and all your horses are sub par" attitude is special.  I don't know if that's how you're intending to come across and if not I apologize.

My comments were aimed at the prevailing attitude of the majority of people on this forum, mostly made up of very young people who own crossbred grades and rescues, board them at a boarding barn where they take riding lessons, and are generally NOT knowledgeable about breeding quality horses. That is a fact. They simply do not have enough life experience to know that, yet they feel they are qualified to judge all others who are more knowledgeable than they are.

It's not the fact that this man bought a quality horse for a lot of money, and is planning on spending even more money to transport it to AUS. that has people raising an eyebrow.  It's the fact that he is doing so with the sole intent of trail riding said horse.  Great for the horse, great for the seller, and heck, great for the buyer that he can purchase his dream horse without a second thought! 

Yet you imply you have a nearly $40,000 horse for the very same purpose? You don't know that his "sole intent" is using her as a trail mount. Perhaps he's smart enough to realize that he might want to do more than just trail ride with his purchase in the future; the quality will already be there when there is a higher goal. Instead of calling him "crazy", how about giving him the benefit of the doubt? That would be pretty boring, though.

Again, I really don't see anything wrong with it, and if I had boatloads of money, I'd probably import and Andalusian from Spain just to ride around my backyard bareback in a custom made princess dress.  I would also expect that it wouldn't make sense to a lot of people, and I wouldn't really care

And if you don't see anything wrong with it, then my comments didn't apply to you, did they? Why did you feel qualified to speak for everyone else here by criticizing my comments? Perhaps because you know there are a few here who would agree with you?