Bomb proof coloured cob, no real interest why?

I would think you'd be looking at dropping your price to about £1,300 - £1,500 for a 3 year old colored cob. You might get £2k next year if he's particularly nice IMO.
 
He's looks like a lovely chap, I'm sure it's just his age that's putting people off
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Its tricky, because he is such a nice ride, he is a bit special and ive ridden many lol! I think i will try again next year.

I just know what dogs are out there and he is so genuine.
 
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Yea i think so, he wont hurt out for the winter.

He was a more long term project originally tbh but my own horse has been condemned with navicular, which is heartbreaking and i cant bear to have him pts, so i just thought the cob might just sell.

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If ya not desperate,turn him away and bring him on and get him out competeing as a four yr old,he will have more under his belt,and if he does well you will be more likely to get a decent price rather than sell him for peanuts atm!
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Its tricky, because he is such a nice ride, he is a bit special and ive ridden many lol! I think i will try again next year.

I just know what dogs are out there and he is so genuine.

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He is lovely and I am sure he is everything you have typed and more.

I do think the wording on the ad is the issue. I'll be honest with you and say that had I seen the advert, without hearing your full story here, stating the horse had done several pleasure rides I would be concerned.

You may have mostly walked around the pleasure rides with the odd trot and pop over one or two fences. However, Joe Public will assume there's every possibility that he has been around a pleasure ride the way I take my mare around them....lots of cantering, oodles of jumping and a very tired and sweaty pony at the end of the ride.

I guess it *might* just sound too intensive for some people, especially if they think your youngster is in enough fittening work in order to go out to farm rides.

Like I say....I'm not saying the horse is in LOTS of heavy work.....but some people MIGHT just assume he is given by his experiences.

I wish you luck in finding him a lovely home. He is stunning. He'd be just the ticket for my daughter....but not for 12 months. (Her age, not his! She will be keeping her current one till next year).
 
Everyone has different views on what youngsters should do. I did not mean to offend. BUT YOU asked why no interest and I told you as honestly as I could why i personally would not be interested.

For me quiet hacking once or twice a week is enough for a 3 year old
 
i think as he is advertised as a bomb proof cob you may have intentionally or not aimed him at the novice market and i would imagine that they would be put off by his age as he will regardless of how well schooled need more work due to his age, i also think that £2700 is alot for his he is only 3 and for that money u could get a resoonableish sports horse type
 
I saw this add too- Im not looking to buy but I like to browse. I had two thoughts- how did the owner know it was bombproof? Then I thought to myself she must have written him out in heavy traffic/lots of situations, but then I thought its only 3- has it ACTUALLY met all these scenarios? then I read on and thought hmmm, its already put a few miles on the clock. ALL my horses that i have ever owned have come to me unbroken and I think if I bought anything under 4 I would continue to want to do this so I know its not been overworked or spoilt. Im not saying yours is but, I just couldnt quite place the add- In my head I couldnt decide if I thought it had done too much, or I couldnt be satisfied that at his age he genuinely coul;d be bombproof. Wait till spring- sell him as a 4 year old and you'll achieve the money you are asking. Good luck
 
A sports horse type? I wish, not anything half decent! Your looking at a minimum of 4k.

I have put ono, but i think people are scared to make offers maybe.
 
You should have been at national riding school (Cadre Noir) in France a week ago. They had 3 yr old dressagge and NO I don't approve. I am of the slow maturing school.
 
Yes i am like yourself, but he really is bombproof, we have had combines coming up alongside us and he hasnt batted an eylid!

Like your self i havent ever had one like this before, he hacked outon his own from day one, and ther arnt many horses i would do that on.

As you say unless you actually know me and the pony maybe it just all seems to good to be true!
 
Wait till he's 4, because then he can go out and do some PC stuff- atm he is limited by his age. I think that's has matured quickly, as smaller ponies tend to do, and hasn't been overworked. I'd prolly turn him out for a bit over the winter, then get him going again in Jan and see if you can do a small spring HT before selling him for 2.5? He's gorgey though...
 
I think he is lovely
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Perhaps your price is a tad too much ..... I would drop down to £2300 .

Nothing wrong with doing a few pleasure rides or popping him over a fence, He looks pretty well developed .

God forbid you ride a 3 year old *rolls eyes* .

For what its worth I was planning on taking my 3 year ISH on a pleasure ride but unfortunately the silly mare decided to kick the wall which resulted in a blood clot to the leg
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...Shes now got rid of the blood clot but is now going to be wintered out as she has been ridden out a few days a week previously ... *shock horror*
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Anyhoos .... This post is not about me
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Good luck with selling , hes a lovely chap .... for a cob
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I think he is gorgeous. Reminds me of Archie - an honest boy who hasn't put a foot wrong.

I bought him as a newly broken just 4 year old and he was as good then as he is now. Ok, he has grown a couple of inches since I've had him but his temperament hasn't changed - he was a very quiet ride then and still is.

Your cob obviously has great trust in you so well done there.

You know your horse and how he is being produced, which you have emphasised is slowly and carefully. Perhaps you should emphasise this more in your ad. As for price, if he is all you say he is I would say he would be worth every penny.
 
I actually strongly believe you have a very good idea how there going to turn out from a young age, i have been pretty accurate with all of them tbh.

He is treated like a king!
 
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As you say unless you actually know me and the pony maybe it just all seems to good to be true!

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I think you may have hit the nail on the head here...

I don't think I'd believe an advert claiming a 3yo was bombproof... manily because I'd think at three there are so many things that they can't have encountered yet. For example, my 4yo is such a chilled out little lad, seriously nothing worries him. I pulled a plastic bag full of straw over his head today to see if he'd react and he didn't bat an eyelid. He tolerates kids and dogs under his feet, stood stock still while red arrows flew over his head at his first show, while all the older horses around him flipped out... but he bolted a few months ago in the school and I came off, knocking my confidence.

He's never done anything before, or anything since, remotely naughty/scary/dangerous... but everyone has said 'well he's a baby' and that's so true. We've no idea why he did it, had all the physical checks, talked it over and over and only have one possible reason... he didn't like the novice girl riding him... something you wouldn't even think twice about when you think your horse is so 'bombproof'.

Some horses don't like a change in routine/owner/home. So he could be different in a different home...

I just think at three, no matter how much traffic/machinery/scary horse eating monsters he's been exposed to, there are a lot of life experiences he hasn't been through yet that can have unexpected effects on a horse's personality.

Maybe try and aim him at someone who wants something to work with and is confident. He might suit someone who wants a nice, easy blank canvas to make their own and enjoy bringing on, rather than a novice who might not want to take a chance on such a young, impressionable horse.
 
wow guess i hope none of you guys want Irish horses if you think this lovely cob is being overworked!
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At 3 and a half over here the freshly backed horses particularly the showjumpers will be facing into their 1st season of hunting so a hack or schooling 2 to 3 times a week is considered very normal...

Personally i like this cob,lovely markings, seems well put together,sounds very sane
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has seen a bit of the world at shows ans fun rides.
..but the price combined with the age would put me off sorry...
 
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Not at all we have just toddled round looking at the scenery!

Not much different to a quiet hack!

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I agree. Off road hack!

I knew you wouldn't have been going hell for leather, especially having read the thread on here.

It's just others might perceive "fun ride" in the way they would normally ride it and not how most of us would ride one with a baby horse.

He's great and he will find an excellent home and be a fabulous horse for someone very lucky.
 
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