Ah, ‘Prospects’…

He may, however, be an awesome steeplechase mount if you can hang on…
Surely some of you have experienced the agony of buying ‘THE perfect prospect’ for your desired discipline only to have it turn out to actually be talentless in said discipline (or even worse, be uber talented but HATE it). I’m sure there’s something warning about this in the equine version of Murphy’s Law…