Steeds For Transaction Through The World Wide Web

Written by Lee Gilbert Friday, 01 July 2011 05:10

Combustion and jet engines have replaced them now, but horses for sale has been a common term in the English language for longer than the combustion engine. For centuries before the model T Ford the beasts transported people, hauled carriages and heavy loads and charged enemies in battle. They have earned their place in human history, and certainly in the English language.

Combustion and jet engines have replaced them now, but horses for sale has been a common term in the English language for longer than the combustion engine. For centuries before the model T Ford the beasts transported people, hauled carriages and heavy loads and charged enemies in battle. They have earned their place in human history, and certainly in the English language.

'Horse trading' has become an English idiom meaning robust negotiation of the sort that goes on in business and politics. This is just one of the many idioms derived from buying and selling mounts that has enriched the English language. There are many others.

At markets in the past buyers and sellers negotiated prices around the real or stated claims made concerning individual animals. Faults in animals not as easy to disguise as they are in motor vehicles. Where a second hand car can be spruced up considerably with paint, water and grooming, a weary old nag's age was hard to disguise. A canny buyer would not take the dealer's estimation of age at face value, but instead look at the length of its teeth to determine its age for himself. If the animal had been a gift and the recipient still looked into its mouth, he was being ungrateful, and rudely, 'looking a gift horse in the mouth'.

The market for horses was drastically reduced with the coming of the combustion engine. Buying and selling Henry Ford's 'horseless carriage' replaced the activity in horse trading. It was one of those times in human history when adaptation was needed for survival. But though horse markets shrank, they did not die.

The market for thoroughbreds horses never died. The rich and privileged, and the not- so- rich but ever hopeful gamblers kept it thriving. Auction sales of yearling thoroughbreds are still lively affairs. There is always an outside possibility that a great race horse will be picked up for a song and go on to make a fortune for its owner on the race track. However, in most cases bloodlines are carefully studied and the progeny of famous sires and dams fetch famous prices.

Young girls, often but not always, the offspring of wealthy parents, have kept the markets alive. There is always a demand for hacks, show jumpers, polo ponies and even carriage pullers. The very old military discipline of three day events has survived, even as an item in the Olympic Games. The long and noble history of the horse as a helper to humanity has ensured its survival in the face of change.

The shrewd bargaining and jockeying for position that goes on before political or business decisions are made is referred to as 'horse trading'. The words are the only connection with actual animals, but the once bustling trade has enriched the English language.

Since 1991 the Internet has transformed the world and revitalized many old industries. There are now many horses for sale on the Internet. Detailed information is available on many websites. Interested buyers are able to access more reliable information than ever before, and sellers can find buyers in the once again lucrative trade.