25.01.11

Vocation.

However he led you to believe – in fact, he was ready to confess – that he was a gentleman of the highest order and horsemanship and horses were not a business with him but a love; a part of his life that he couldn’t do without.

That was the real reason for his being in the horse business, and not because of any money that might be connected with the running of a livery stable and the buying, selling, and trading of horses.

This kind of angle on things was sort of a a new breed of animal with me.

I thought horse people were in the horse business because they had to be or because they wanted to be, and since I was a small boy I’ve more or less considered the horse business not a business but a disease.

The thing a horseman ought to do was to learn all he could about the disease, so he could live with it without its totally ruining him, financially and otherwise.

From Horse Tradin’ by Ben K Green