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Hi All!

When you 'orrible lot are looking for an allrounder/ rc type, what key things in advert would make you go yay or neigh?

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It must be a sensible hack in all situations, word this how you want but do put more than "good to hack" in the ad, good in traffic is a priority for most people.
Flatwork in a snaffle, essential if it is a true allrounder, it needs to be capable of doing a half decent test, if better than that put in its %s.
Jumping needs to be uncomplicated, not a world beater but genuine to a fence, not spooky over fillers and jump ditches, go into water xc.
A nice person to deal with, especially if it is easy to take out and about alone, many RC people go out to shows with no help so this is a good selling point.

A well worded ad with a decent photo of it doing something, ideally jumping, makes me read, muddled or a long life history makes me move on to the next one.
I am put off by a confo shot that is poor, with no action shot, if it is an allrounder you must have some photos of it jumping to put in an ad.
If an ad has any negatives in it they must be clarified, not suitable for a novice when the wording seems to suggest it is, should be clearly explained or not put in, otherwise I move on.
A photo can sell a horse more than the words so they need to be good and again back up what is said, often the words say scopey jump and the photo is over a x pole, why:confused:
 
We've not long found an all-rounder for our daughter. We looked at the photos to get an idea of the conformation, level of schooling and scope over a jump, videos were good too. In terms of text, we wanted to know hacking, traffic, farrier, loading, catch, clean limbs, how they were to generally handle, what they'd been up to in the last 12 months, so had they been out anywhere, and either results or something constructive about the excursion. Anything else we called up about.

Silly phases such as "will show", any old nag can go to a show, it doesn't mean they are RIHS material! Or things based on a matter of opinion or that are subjective like "schooling nicely", or "lovely paces" put us off. If the pony is good enough to show, is working well and has lovely paces then the photos should reflect that. So making sure the advert matched the photos was important for us too.
 
I would expect a genuine all rounder to have been placed in multi disciplines, with photos attached to the ad to illustrate this.

I would also expect it to hack out and maybe have done some fun rides and/or a few days hunting.

If it is all the above and not over 16yrs, I would also expect it to have a decent price tag!!!!
 
I would expect photos of the horse doing a variety of different things- so many ads I have seen just show the horse standing and a head shot :confused:

I would expect it to have been out and about and on a regular basis.

Safe to hack out, good in traffic, will canter with a group etc. and sensible in new situations.

That's my description of a genuine allrounder. I'm looking for a quality allrounder atm so something that has potential to BE100 but is easy to do and will hack everywhere and do a decent dressage test and I can safely take to comps alone.
 
I'd like a horse that I could deal with on my own at competitions, take out hacking and go the speed I dictate, point at a fence and unless I'm massively off they'll go, and one who doesn't need Carl Hester to make it get 60% in a prelim :D
 
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