I don't even know where to begin with that. Maybe informing you of the many ranchers who use horses as well-treated, well-respected working animals and can buy and keep them for next to nothing?

Show barns are such a different reality, I swear. How sad that the show horse industry is so utterly divorced from the origins of the horse as an inexpensive working animal. It's like they think we shoot them for getting a cough or something...