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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this is true for most sports. If you invest enough and get enough private teaching/coaching, your kid is going to be good at just about anything eventually just from the extra practice and repetitions.[/quote]

No amount of money will get an average athlete to the national stage in basketball. A billionaire father can easily do that for an equestrian [/quote]

I disagree. You have to have money or have access to money through sponsors and owners who want to place their horses with you to compete.

Show Jumping is the discipline where a really expensive horse can do the most to make up for a lack of rider quality, but dressage and even more so eventing requires skill and dedication.  [/quote]

Dressage is easy to game given the ability to create private competitions for points.

A rider has to have a base level of ability.  But a high-average skilled rider on a perfectly trained horse will be higher ranked than a world-class rider on a just well-trained horse. There are only certain breeders and trainers (Moeller is a name everyone knows, but there are others who are more of a secret) who can produce this type of horse. [/quote]

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