Are Welsh A's notoriously difficult to sell?

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Are they?
Have been looking for a home for my little lad, full permanent loan rather than sell, but have not had any interest.
I know they can be full on for young riders (well some!) but he is advertised as a companion or lead rein pony, or for very confident young person (he can be strong, well, not strong, but jaunty)

It is hard to find riders that fit a small pony of 11.1 hands I know, hence why we don't use him at the school. He is lovely though, but not registered either which is a bum.

Any recommendations of sites to advertise him? he is locally advertised of course.
Poor lad is very lonely, although my daughter rides him daily to keep him occupied.

Does any one else have this problem with small ponies?
 
Oh if I had enough money I would buy them all. My daughter of 4 has a Welsh Sec A, they are the BEST!!! I am hoping when my daughter grown out of him we can afford to keep him we are both so attatched to him.
I hope you find a gr8 home for him they are excellent all round ponie's.
 
It took me 6 months to sell my Welsh A. He is a driving pony though and went last Friday. Perfect home though couldn't have asked for a better one
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I did have people ring up and say they weren't sure they wanted a Welsh A (he is actually reg'd PBW as his sire wasn't reg'd) as they are too sharp
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I love them though!
 
where did you advertise him?
Harry drives as well, or is broken to.
I love them
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But just can't keep him where he is
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I have a Welsh Section A, who I know will be hard to sell when the time comes. She can be a bit opinionated and nappy in the school (but she is ex riding school so was used to following other horses before we had her...not as good on her own). However, she is 200% on the roads. Utterly bombproof. My 9 year old can follow me down the lane on her, safe in the knowledge that Tweenie will keep on following Patches and will not look at ANY traffic.

If I was to sell her, I would HAVE to emphasise her strong points...namely the hacking. She can be super fast in the school for a confident rider and would happily do PC games (we do some games at the farm over summer).

If Hannah hires a school to ride her in, we never have any problems. At home schooling on grass she needs to be lunged for 10 mins first as she finds grass very exciting and likes to buck and canter on every corner! Tires herself out soon enough and Hannah has a fabulous seat because of her!

She IS a first pony though. She will happily go on the lead and has done very well lead rein showing. It's just they are cheeky when FR.
 
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Harry is brilliant on road work. He also doesn't bat an eyelid at trains (live close to main busy line) we go under and he doesn't flinch.
Nor at tractors and stuff. He is becoming calmer, and actually rachel gets him going nicely on the bit too.

Maybe I'll redo the ad.

Just a curious Q: Is yours shod?> What type of feet has she?
harry has what I call 'Elton John Platform' feet!
 
Might be worth putting him on the Pony Club classified website to get a bit more interest.

The pony owners on my yard used HorseQuest (Lead Rein & first ridden, Native section) to sell their Section A and got quite a good response. There is someone on there wanting a 11-11.2 pony on long term loan - might be worth emailing. I can pm you their ad if you like.
 
Is he registered? When I was selling our little Welsh A, she did not have papers although I knew who her dam and sire were. I was absolutely inundated with calls for her!! However almost every single person who phoned wanted papers so they weren't interested after that.

Eventually after about 2 weeks of advertising we did find the perfect home for her as a show pony for a little girl. Our pony was excellent on the roads, pretty well behaved when she had a rider on her back and although she was very "showy" in the field and under saddle, she did have a fairly calm air about her so she wasn't one of those silly types.

I sold her for double what I paid for her and was very happy with that.
 
My Aunt has Sect A`s she used to breed until recently and she had people queing up for them, she used to show them and they were always in the ribbons , she never had problems selling mind you they were reg`d and top class ponies
 
I had a section A as my second pony, althought I think she was a cross. The was brilliant and she is one of the ponies I wished would grow with me! She was owned by HAPPA so she was only on loan she we never had to see her but I think she would have gone fairly quickly.

Theres a picture of her
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IME for the reasons you've stated above they can be hard to sell. I was lucky and have kept my daughters lead rein pony..mainly because she is quite sharp..and I love her of course
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Tweenie wears fronts because she got a bit pottery on the bridle paths with her previous owner. (they're very stony tracks). I've just carried on doing that. She has excellent feet, not at all boxy. Never chip/crack and she's never (touches wood as it's tempting fate saying this) had the dreaded L word.

Tweenie is 10 next month and is registered. Must admit, she's not an old type Section A though. Not at all traditional.
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My welsh A was a little star and we sold him in less than a week! He was advertised on the pony club website and I probably could have sold him 50 times over, I had that many phone calls!
The first person that came to see him bought him and he was vetted and in his new home less than a week later
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Seriously try the pc website it only costs £3.50 to place an ad
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Good luck
 
Hi,
I had to sell my daughters 'Welsh A' 5 years ago as she outgrew him, he was ride and drive, we did advertise, and got quite a few time wasters, in the end I sold him to a friends riding school, as I knew he would not get passed on, he did lessons, gymkhana, hacking etc... there.
THEN last week he came home (well sort of, we had moved to Spain since we sold him) I decided I wanted to buy him back, the riding school owner agreed, and he arrived sunday, it was so good to see him (he is 16 now) and he is now living with our 2 last years foals (and has firmly put them in their place!!!!)

A few people 'tut tutted' that I sold him to a riding school, but im so glad we did, he had a good home for 5 years, and did not get passed from home to home, plus we were able to but him back, he will stay with us for life now

Jenny
 
I'd really really surprised that you are having difficulties finding a home for your boy. We've been looking for a Section A as a LR pony for our son who is nearly 4yo for almost two months and every pony I've called about has been £3,500 plus - in my view a ridiculous amount for a small safe pony. I'd tried the PC website, horsequest, horse deals, horseselect etc etc and in the end put a wanted ad on horsequest. Got responses from a few nice homes but mainly ones from dealers - the nice homes all wanted lots of money bar one who were at the opposite end of the uk!

In the end we have just found a lovely little Section A by chance close to home - he's 18yo but safe as houses and I've managed to trace his history which gives me peace of mind.

In my very recent experience LR Section A's are like gold dust so I'm sure a super family will come along soon.
 
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