British Breeding- Where is the largest market and customer base?

[Rachel_M]

For the breeders, and the buyers as well; what is the largest market in breeding at the moment in Britain? Natives, TBs, sport horses, cobs, etc? Which areas tend to have the most demand and turnover?

Thanks [breeding numpty].

 

[Rollin]

Great question. Whilst British Breeding gets slagged I wonder if anyone knows the answer.

However, important to distinguish between volume market share i.e. units sold and revenue market share value of units sold.

 

[henryhorn]

That's actually not that hard to check!
Go on HH, horsemart/horsequest etc and see which section has the most horses for sale...it's very illuminating to see how many event horses/all rounders etc appear in the same sections twice.
I would say from my experience the biggest market (ie the number of calls I get per advert when advertising a horse) are for the 16 hh 4 to 8 years safe sane, good looking middleweight all rounder, who is traffic prood, good in every way and popping a small course sensibly.
Whenever we have one of those the phone rings non stop and there are often a quue of people waiting to view even at a decent price.
As for highest price I think proven event/dressage/SJ command the best prices, it's normal for a schoolmaster event horse to go for around £40k.
I know of people paying £100k for an imported dressage schoolmaster.

 

[Rollin]

Your response supports my 'gut feel' but if I were writing a business plan or writing a thesis, I would be required to provide empirical data to support claims.

i don't think that sort of accurate data is available to UK breeders?

I am happy to be proved wrong.

 

[Rachel_M]

I was wondering whether there was any date as such. Do any of the large breed or discipline societies collate and release information like that?

Does anyone take note?