Ascot Bloodstock Sales

[BonneMaman]

Has anyone on here ever bought a horse from here or one of the other bloodstock sales? Was it a success or a complete disaster?

I was looking through today at the past results and found a whole load of them for between £400 and £600!

The £400 ones were all unbroken, unraced but I have a horrible feeling that they all went for meat at that price!??

Some of them had really nice writeups about them being kind, gentle, riding horse types but not sure if that is just a load of old twaddle.

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

Ascot Bloodstock sales is where racehorse trainers generally send their useless or injured horses, mostly to be sold out of training. Some horses in there are just too psyched for racing to be sold out of it as a normal horse so they get punted there to take their chances. Occasionaly a trainer will pick one back up but it known to be the sale of the crocks. If you care going to look for a horses there then check its legs, back, teeth and get it trotted up for you.

Luckily my trainer refuses to send them the very reason that they could find a lovely home or they could equally end up in a dog food can and no one would be the wiser.

Don't get me wrong, you can easily find a lovely, lovely horse there for peanuts as it is purely too old to carry on racing or is just too slow or has no interest. These horses with no problems are rare their though.

 

[Miss L Toe]

Most Bloodstock sales eg Doncaster have a min bid, so there is no point sending horses that are "the dregs", I don't know about Ascot, but the meat man pays very little for TBs as they do not carry condition ie meat

 

[huntley]

We used to buy quite alot from Ascot - probably up to ten a year. You need to be pretty experienced, know what you are looking for and be aware of potential problems. We were very fussy and often came away without any. But the ones we did get on the whole worked out fine - most had really good temperaments. We used to give them a few weeks in the field to chill out. We did once have one that had a virus that spread to our foals and always put the new ones well away from any of the other horses after that. There are nice horses there, but you have to be absolutely sure about what you want and not get distracted.

 

[Lanky Loll]

We've bought a few through there - some successful and some not. The better one's have been unraced or dismissed as too slow.
As has been said, go with a good idea of what you want, don't get distracted by something that looks flashy, ask questions of the people with the horse when you go round the stables and take the time to have a good check over of the horse before it goes in the ring.