This is a wonderful concept, but I.
think we are joking ourselves if we believe that people in today's society can.
operate under these specifications. I tend to agree mostly with Albert Carr.
when he says that "business has the impersonal character of a game--a.
game that demands both special strategy and an understanding of its special.
ethics (34)." .
The problem with the equine industry today can be found, not solely in.
it's sellers, but in it's buyers. Granted that there are those few horseman.
who will abuse the system no matter how complicated it may be, but for the.
most part a lot of buying and selling problems can be fixed if the seller would.
become more aware of what is going on with their horses and with their.
money. Too often horse people simply put their trust in their "trainers" and.
practically hand them their check books and a Gold card. A person wouldn't.
do this when going to buy a house, or a car would they? For some reason.
people think totally different when it comes to horses. .
To help illustrate this issue we can look at the case of a Lexington,.
Kentucky horsewoman Linda K. Johnson and an American Saddlebred horse.
trainer Donna Moore. Johnson had been a very wealthy customer of Moore's.
for several years, and over the course of 1983 to 1987 Johnson bought 40.
horses and spent approximately $2.2 million under the advice of.
Moore(McKay 1). In the Saddlebred horse business, according to custom, .
Brown 3.
trainers act as agents for owners who customarily rely upon the advice of.
trainers with respect to the purchase and sale of horses. .
The dispute began over a claim for alleged secret profits earned by.
Moore in a transaction involving the horse Some Enchanted Evening. .
According to the court documents, Johnson had bought the horse for.
$100,000 and Moore was advising her to sell it for $75,000(1). Moore's.
reasoning behind this was that the horse's training had not worked out and.
progressed like they expected it would.