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Poll Recap: How Much is a 'Rescue' Horse Worth?

Just how much is a ‘rescue’ horse worth? We posed this question to our readers in last week’s online poll at TheHorse.com. More than 1,200 people responded, and we’ve tallied the results.
 
Of the 1,253 respondents, 1,002 (80%) said referring to a horse as a ‘rescue’ does not make him more or less valuable than a nonrescue horse. Another 155 people (12%) said that referring to a horse as a ‘rescue’ makes him less valuable than nonrescue horses, while the remaining 96 individuals (8%) said ‘rescue’ horses should be considered more valuable.
 
Additionally, more than 200 people left comments about rescue horses:
 
Many people commented that a horse’s value should be based on factors such as health, personality, and physical traits rather than his history:
 
“A horse’s value (is based on) if it can give the owner what they are looking for in a horse.”
“It all depends on the personality, health, training, and known genetics of the individual horse.”
“It depends on condition of horse and what it can do.”
 
Source: TheHorse

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