forthefutureofthebreed wrote:
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.

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You're really generalizing here. Since when did "the majority of people on this forum" respond to this thread? So far, it seems more like "a handful of people on this forum" did, and their opinions are the ones you are questioning. Generalizing the whole board does nothing to validate your opinion, FTF. I, for example, own an APHA-registered gelding who is a product of the breeding program at the boarding barn where I keep him. And since when does "boarding at a barn where you take lessons" an immediate guarantee that you don't know a quality individual from a fugly POS? I've been exposed to plenty of quality animals. But that was never the point, was it? Again, you're just picking a fight, doing your best to offend the whole when it's only a few people whose opinions you're disagreeing with. Next time, you'll be far better served to come back with a sounder argument that actually holds relevance to the topic at hand.