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| 13/10/2008 09:51 |
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Big Advice for Stallion Owners
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I am not one to say anything to anybody about how they go about advertising any stallion etc (as that is up to the individuals concerned etc), but what I do hope (like many mare owners) is that people advertise as honestly as possible.
Due to this I decided to do a little "fact finding" exercise on some stallions in the UK, just for my own information, and came across an interesting find.
There is a stallion in the UK (that will remain anonymous) that has done some competition abroad, and is being advertised as competing at 1.20m. Well I contacted the relevant horse sport association for that particular country last week.......and low and behold was sent the full competition record for the horse in question (and I have to say the girl I was speaking to was just superb and very fast with giving me the information
). Sadly it turns out that this particular horse started competing at 1.10m before dropping down a level to 1m before returning to the UK, and never officially competed at 1.20m.
Therefore the point to this thread was to say to stallion owners - if you are advertising your stallions as having achieved a certain level in competition, make sure you have the evidence to back up what you are saying.
As I said above, I am not naming any names etc, as that would not be fair, but I wanted to bring it to peoples attention......as I wanted to show that people are willing to give very misleading information to mare owners. Also to say that it is not difficult to find out the competition record of any horse regardless if they are home or away..
