Bosworth
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I am trying to fin a gelding - any age up to about 15 years who is sane, calm and safe for my nieces to ride. have been through H&H and nothing. happy for a loan or to buy.
anyone know of a sensible safe gelding for sale
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cazza
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Yes I can pm you details if you like.
Bosworth
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yes please - I am struggling at the moment to post properly as the H&H site seems to randomly let me type! if you send me a Pm I know I can respond to them. Thanks
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cazza
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Have PM'd you
Eceni
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Have you looked at HorseQuest, HorseDeals and HorseMart? All good websites with endless ads for horses of all shapes and sizes. Some of them might be sane
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Bosworth
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I have tried horse quest and horsemart. loads of TB types but really need something hardy so a shire X or draft X would be ideal. Prices seem astronomical - up to £5k but I want something about 12 - 15 years gelding, looks not important - I don't want a horse with potential just a nice friendly family type who would be happy living out, hacking out quietly, being groomed by children and being ridden by total novices most of the time with an occasional ride by an experienced rider. I know it is a tall order but someone somewhere must know of one that the owner wants to put on loan or sell to an experienced home
Eceni
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Have you checked under the 'cobs' section of Horsequest?
also, remember that horses for sale frequently make a transitional slide from H&H/HOrsequest (expensive) to Horse Deals (Marginally less so) to HorseMart (much less so) to the local paper to the local sales ring to a dealer (where they start all over again, some of them)
so the thing to remember is that the asking price is usually negotiable, that prices go silly in the spring and they feed off each other, that if you keep watching the various sites, you'll see when people switch from one to the other, which means it hasn't sold, which means they're open to sensible offers and if you're offering a good home and they care for it, the price may be very negotiable (not from dealers or those who have bought to sell, obviously)
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as with almost everything else, you get what you pay for, but a horse is only worth what someone's prepared to pay and that's very often not what the besotted owner thinks/hopes it's worth
Try Horse Mart and do a search for height/age/location
good luck
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also, remember that horses for sale frequently make a transitional slide from H&H/HOrsequest (expensive) to Horse Deals (Marginally less so) to HorseMart (much less so) to the local paper to the local sales ring to a dealer (where they start all over again, some of them)
so the thing to remember is that the asking price is usually negotiable, that prices go silly in the spring and they feed off each other, that if you keep watching the various sites, you'll see when people switch from one to the other, which means it hasn't sold, which means they're open to sensible offers and if you're offering a good home and they care for it, the price may be very negotiable (not from dealers or those who have bought to sell, obviously)
and
as with almost everything else, you get what you pay for, but a horse is only worth what someone's prepared to pay and that's very often not what the besotted owner thinks/hopes it's worth
Try Horse Mart and do a search for height/age/location
good luck
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KINGLIAM
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i have just brought he most perfect horse he is a belgium warmblood he is 7 years old 16,1 and my 8 year old granddaughter loves him 2 bits im so glad i found him on stable talk