I just started laughing about this ... I'm not the guy who doesn't know how to ride who goes out and buys the Harley to be kewl.
I do appreciate the emphatic "don't get a draft horse" advice, but it's not like I've got the checkbook out and the trailer hitched.
Alls I need right now is a saddle. That will fit large me and a large horse. With me on top and the horse below.
Story -- I ask Mickey how much horses cost. Not fancy horses, not cutie ponies, but a big, normal ridin' horse. He does that contemplative brow furrow for a second and says (not at all tying to be funny, this is just how he is): "Well, they're worth a dollar a pound, dead."
Pause.
Me: "Um, well. You see, I was thinking about a
live horse. I'll worry about the
scrap value down the road."
Mickey: "Well, you gotta establish a baseline price somehow."
JP