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| Name: Dianne Olds Rossi From: California E-mail: Contact |
Your article on the status of the horse business was one of the most interesting articles I have read. Right on thank you. I am also in the horse business but from a different view. I have trained entertainment performance horses and have seen a lucrative business dwindle to almost nothing due to the popularity of the Horse Expos. Normally I, with others were hired to promote attendance and to entertain. It wasn't long before the general public volunteered to put on a costume and go roundy roundy while a script was read to the boredom of all except those that were riding. Now the expos expect all to arrive and pay for the priviledge of showing or if you are really lucky given a table to sell your wares. There still are a few shows that continue to hire professional entertainers but due to the cost of moving the rigs the expenses out weigh what the shows can pay leaving their entertainment, if they have any, to locals. It's sad to see what was once an anticipated yearly event dwindle to horse expos that even now lose their luster with the onslaught of cheap equipment and feed booths. What I remember is the show at the Chicago Stockyards, American Royal etc. Admin reply: From the "One Armed bandit", Wetback the equestrian monkey, the mom and son trick riding Griffiths, the world's greatest rodeo clown, whose name escapes me at this moment, John Cuneo's, liberty acts,40 horse hitches and the Victor Comtometer Ponies.etc, etc, etc,I could not agree with you more. Watching this type of true entertainment become slowly and completely sucked out of the Horse Business to be replaced with boring and redundant marathons is indeed sad. There are less than a handful of horse show managers who have even an inkling of what the word SHOW is supposed to mean as there are also many people who do not understand why a ticket to a 3 and one half hour feature film does not sell as well as a 95 minute "B" film. To once again fill the seats, we must be competitive with the myriad of other options that are currently stealing, not only our thunder but our profit! Thanks for your comments.
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| Name: KeefscifeDutt From: KeefscifeDutt E-mail: Contact |
Certainly I like your website, however you need to check the spelling on several of your posts. Many of them are rife with spelling problems and I find it very troublesome to tell you. However I’ll certainly come back again! Admin reply: Well, you have caught me. With the thousands of pages I have written on this site, my lack of spelling skills certainly comes to the surface, I have trouble even names such as Dorothy. I hope you will overlook my scholastic inadequacies and continue to enjoy this site for the content LFL
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| Name: shumsvoff From: shumsvoff E-mail: Contact |
Obviously I like your website, however you need to test the spelling on quite a few of your posts. A number of them are rife with spelling issues and I find it very silly to inform you. However I’ll definitely come again again! Admin reply: Thanks so much for pointing my spelling issues out. Although I have never been accused of being "RIFE" before, it certainly seems I am now. Hope you can overlook my horrible errors and find it in your heart to just enjoy the site. After all, I am just an old horse trainer. Thanks again. LFL
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| Name: David LaSalle From: RI E-mail: Contact |
Great analysis of the horse business Lonnie. Couldn't agree more. Admin reply: Thanks David. I don't know how Great it is but, like you, I have sure had a lot of time to think about it. Best to all, please send me a catalog of your wonderful products. LF Lavery
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| Name: hiedezoob From: hiedezoob E-mail: Contact |
Nice read. I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing some research on that. He just bought me lunch since I found it for him! Thus let me rephrase: Thanks for lunch! Admin reply: So glad I could be of service.I hope I took you to a nice place.
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| Name: Deanna Edgy From: St.Somons Island Ga E-mail: Contact |
Private post. Click to view. Admin reply: Deanna, So nice to hear from you and I am pleased you enjoy this site. I hope you will become a regular visitor. I like to think there is a little something for everyone here. Good Luck and Good Riding. LFL
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| Name: ChoriderEveve From: ChoriderEveve E-mail: Contact |
Good post. I’m a normal visitor of your site and appreciate you taking the time to maintain the nice site. I'll be a regular visitor for a really long time.
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| Name: Anne Juratovac From: CLE E-mail: Contact |
Thanks Lonnie for talking to us about the Stan Hywett ASB photos. Here is what LFL said: "As far as your questions concerning the Sieberling horses, yes they were ASB's. In the 1920's and 1930's, LS Dickey, of French Lick, In. sold them quite a few along with a great dealer from Lexington, based at the Red Mile and whose name escapes me at this moment The family competed at a couple of what one would have to call TRUE Society shows sponsored by they and their major competitors the Firestone family. My grandfather was the Firestone's Saddlebred trainer and personal riding instructor for the family. The son, Raymond Jr, continued in the horse business (albeit Hunters and Jumpers) well into the 1980's when their beautiful farm in Bath was sold. Most of the executives of both rubber companies had horses although not at the level of the company owners. Akron was quite a hot bed of ASB interest for a decade or more at that time. Feel free to pass any of this information along if you think it is of interest. LFL"
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| Name: Anne Juratovac From: Cleveland, OH E-mail: Contact |
Happy Thanksgiving Lonnie, enjoy your holiday!
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| Name: Taylor Toth From: Sharon center ohio E-mail: Contact |
I have a saddlebred mare out of Attache Liquid Assets and Dance card, she's 15 currently I would love to breed her because she has some nice blood lines. Do you think she's too old to breed and if not what horse would complement her?
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