Best place to advertise tricky horse?

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As title really, I have a nervous, sensitive horse to sell and am wondering where best place to advertise her is? Should I just go for normal sites like horse and hound etc or should i go for project horses as really she is more of a project. I want to limit the number of numptys who call up as much as possible. Where would you be more likely to look? Thanks.
 
She is 15.2 ish and 8yrs now, had a couple of foals so wasn't backed till rising 6. She belongs to a friend but she has asked me to sell her for her due to lack of time and money. She has only been with me since new year but owner has had her since 3yr old. She isn't naughty or rude in the slightest. She is lovely to handle and hacking out she is great in traffic but when in the arena she gets very nervous and tense. She has had all usual checks done so there is nothing wrong with her. She doesn't do anything naughty but can get very tense and end up bouncing on spot a bit. I have started jumping her and she loves it, makes a lovely shape and goes into a very steady balanced canter after but if you ask for canter in school again she can get very tense and panicky. She also has mild sweet itch will I imagine will make her even more difficult to sell. She is a beautiful horse though but she needs a very quiet, patient, confident rider to get her to relax. I am wary that I am going to get people calling who say they are very good riders but really aren't as good as they will need to be. Are there any ways of weeding these people out, anybody got any ideas for spotting them before they get on and terrify the poor horse?
 
I tend to put everything on horsequest and/or h&h as seems always be a range of horses on there!

That said you always get a few numpties whatever your selling! I'm selling a super pony at the moment (I don't think he's over priced), had lovely family come to try him today- he didn't put a foot wrong, they were gushing about how wonderful he was, and told me they would call me. Rang me 10mins later to offer me over 2k less(!!!) than he was advertised for! The cheek of it!!

Sorry rant over! Good luck selling yours!
 
Unfortunately, any time you advertise any horse, with or without quirks, you will always get some timewasting / numpty calls. It's just the way it goes. You can try to ask leading questions on the phone / email and / or ask to see pictures of them riding, to try to weed some of them out, but sometimes you just won't know until they get out of the car!

As to where to advertise - clearly as she's a horse with quirks, I would suggest that www.projecthorses.co.uk is the specialist place for a horse like her. However here on Horse & Hound gets a lot of hits too. I've found Horse Deals a bit patchy - if you've got a quality horse at a quality price with lots of potential or actual ability, then it can be great. If not, it can be a bit hit & miss.
 
Thanks, I was thinking of project horses but wasn't sure if anyone other than me ever really looked on it. I will put her on there and see how it goes.
 
I have decided to advertise as needing a rider who can sit a buck, this weeds out 99 percent of people.
PS if I wanted a nice mare, I would want to know what you have said, sensitive and can be spooky in manege.needs flatwork to be established, not suited to average riding school pupil!, take it from there.
PPS I recently responded to someone who wanted a project horse, assuming she could ride, but turns out she needs six months lwvtb, ie cheap horse she can ruin in no time at all!
 
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Best thing is to ask the person who calls what they have ridden in the past and how they usually deal with nervous horses. Your need a nice quite person who seems quite laid back, id avoid any loud excitable people.
 
Unfortunately the market is very tricky and slow at the mo, I recently rehomed a horse that we advertised honestly - tbf he wasn't as young as yours and I had lots of people who were wanting a freebie. It was so disheartening and we almost pts as it could have ended up a viable option - put it this way meat money or dealer? Fortunately for him a very nice person on here saw my thread and came to the rescue.

Any horse that isn't "bombproof' or "serious competition prospect" and got the ribbons to prove it, doesn't seem to be worth a lot. Sorry to be negative, but there are a huge number of lovely horses with no particular vices not making much money so unless your friend has a seriously realistic price then be prepared for her to stick and the cheaper the horse, the cheaper the offers and the more joy riders you will get! I didn't have any joy with project horses and intact had more silly enquiries than sensible!

Ours spooked and someone suggested join up! Another told me all the bad points about our horse and how wonderful they were and that they could do so much better to look after him - he was put back in the box without her taking the demanded for test drive (she wanted to have him for free), numerous calls and only by asking lots of questions, talking to the callers (checking their mobile numbers - yes had the dodgy callers too who are listed on google for cruelty) and the wonders of Facebook to check out what and who they really are - had some good responses here and it was free!

If she's so good to hack, then this might be the best thing to advertise her as - there is a demand for the happy hacker! Good luck!
 
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