Bromsgrove Horse Fair Sunday 25th April

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trickivicki

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Hi All,

Does anyone know what time they start running the horses through and what prices they can be expected to fetch?

We are looking for a bit of a project to bring on and enjoy but are on a rather limited budget.

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I doubt you will see anything worth buying.

I called in last year and wished I had not. Small cob foals colts £10 fillies £20

I am surprised the fair is taking place, because there was planning issues last year when it was held on the A38. Perhaps it is being held elsewhere this year ?
 
When I went they were mostly young coloured cob ponies. One lorry had a couple of old TB types, a few welsh cob types, couple of mini shetlands.

For those people who can remember Henley in Arden market, it is the same people running Bromsgrove sale and the same type of poor animal.
 
is it not held in the same place as last year?

We have a few of the sales scheduled in on our search but as this one is so close it seemed silly not to pop in.

Will be an eyes wide open purchase/ potential purchase though.

Were there many 4/5yos?

(we don't mind it being a bit poor/ rough round the edges we have plenty of time, food, space, shampoo and rugs! :) )
 
trickivicki said:
is it not held in the same place as last year?

We have a few of the sales scheduled in on our search but as this one is so close it seemed silly not to pop in.

Will be an eyes wide open purchase/ potential purchase though.

Were there many 4/5yos?

(we don't mind it being a bit poor/ rough round the edges we have plenty of time, food, space, shampoo and rugs! :) )
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why dont you try project horse (google it) or the dreaded dragon driving (think thats what its called)
 
No I didn't see any 4 year olds. It is very much an 'how old would you like it be'. no passports and horses that have been dragged from fields and tethers, thrown on a lorry and brought to the sale.

I attend sales as part of my work in enforcement/trading standards. This sale is a low and pitiful as it gets. These horses have been passed from pillar to post and will be likely to be making a final journey from a sale such as this one.

I have no wish to be disrespectful to you, but if you think you are going to drop on a bargain or a gem, you are sadly, very mis-informed. The vendors that you will be potentially buying from are mainly from the traveller community, they will be off loading last years colt foals. Other low level dealers may have horses there and those horses will have a reason to be in such a place. Obviously I don't know why you wish to buy from low level sales, you may well have lots of land and are able to 'rescue' sad cases and give them a decent life doing whatever they are able to do. But if you are looking for a straight forward pleasure horse to have fun on, then Bromsgrove Horse Fair is not the place to find it.

You would be better at a sale run by a known auction house, Leominster for instance is run by Brightwells, where you will have some come back if everything goes wrong. If you look at the sales returns for recent sales you will see 4 and 5 year old broken 15 handers fetching less than £400.00. Unbroken fetch less. I recently watched a 16.2 8 year gelding ISH, warranted hunter go through for £950.00, his owner was with him and she was heartbroken to sell him, she had lost her job and couldn't keep him.

Have a look at the catalogue and returns for their last sale. Young horses fetching next to nothing. I hope you find a lovely horse who gives you great pleasure, but if everyone boycotted the likes of Bromsgrove Horse Fair the poor horses that find themselves in such places would be saved from more misery and suffering.
 
The autumn and last sale of 2011 was held on A38 out of Bromsgrove on right hand side before Webbs the garden centre.

There was a small tack/rubbish unsafe bits of leather sale. Very little sold or was worth buying. Quite a lot of old rugs on offer in very poor state. I did see a 2 wheel exercise cart sold, it was cycle wheels and a plank and a pair of shafts, went for £50.00

I don't know if the sale in April is set to be on the same land. I am aware there were local authority issues around planning/illegal use of land last year, but having said that it would not surprise me at all, if the people organising it will just trade anyway and ignore the authorites.
 
WoopsiiD said:
If you do buy from there beware of the freeby offers!
Most come with worm burden, lice, strangles.....
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WoopsiiD - you missed one - the deadly silent one - the strangles carrier but not sick itself, and I doubt anyone who buys from such sales will be prepared to blood test and find out. Every chance they will take their bargain onto a DIY yard and put everyone's horses at risk.
 
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