Dealer suggestions for selling sport horse/ allrounder sort???

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Can anyone recommend any yards which buy and sell horses but have a conscience?

Have been in touch with a couple who (from what I can gather) couldn't give a damn about where their horses end up.

I've had next to no luck selling my horse, so am considering my options. But am not so desperate that I'd let him go anywhere I felt wouldn't consider his best interests.

Could anyone suggest anywhere?
He's a 16.2hh, 9 yr old WB. Really excellent breeding. Jumped 1.40 abroad but wasn't good enough (comp record available). Is more a very, very good amateurs horse (1.20m courses would pose no trouble to him, would do lovely dressage test, very bold xc etc). But not been in proper work for few months, so bit unfit and out of practice.
(Not advertising moderators! Just saying what sort of horse he is!).

Any dealer suggestions?
 
I don't know anywhere but really surprised you've not been able to sell him, he sounds fab and the sort most people would bite your hand off for.

Perhaps you're saying something offputting about him, or the price isn't right?

How about sending him to someone for sales livery - he'd still be your horse and you'd have the ultimate say so in who he goes to?
 
xspiralx said:
I don't know anywhere but really surprised you've not been able to sell him, he sounds fab and the sort most people would bite your hand off for.

Perhaps you're saying something offputting about him, or the price isn't right?
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I think the main problem is that he's not been worked properly for afew months. It actually says a lot for his character that despite this, you can still get straight on him, hack him alone or in company down a main road/ across open fields, walk/trot/canter in the school and take him to any size fence and he'd have a bash at it.
But people seem to either want a ready-made competition horse (which he is, but will need fittening up before competing), or if it's anything less than fit they expect a ridiculously cheap price tag (which is fine, but he's not been sat in the field - he's just not been in heavy work.

xspiralx said:
How about sending him to someone for sales livery - he'd still be your horse and you'd have the ultimate say so in who he goes to?
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I initially considered this. But I really can't afford to pay sales livery prices unfortunately. Otherwise I would certainly have done this - it would have been a good solution! :-)
 
Kim Barzilay in Great Missenden sold a young horse for me that I was having trouble with because he didn't like the sales procedure and became difficult to show. She had him 8 days, took him showjumping, he was sold and vetted all within the week, to a girl who absolutely adored him. Her rates are reasonable and I liked her because she didn't seem interested in hanging onto the horse forever to charge me livery, but immediately knew of a few people who would like him and sold him to a good home.
 
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