April86
Well-Known Member
Hello everyone, I don't post on here very often, so rather cheeky I know, but am after some advice.
I have 2 horses, one who is 14 and a little angel, but last year started to get quite stiff on the hard ground doing BE, so I blew my student loan and bought a 4 year old mare, with the idea that he would start to do easier work.
All went well for the first couple of months, just doing hacking and light schooling with the mare, but where I kept her was only one other horse and they would leave her out on her own most days which in turn has made my mare so frantic and unsettled, she just never seems to relax.
However, riding her she is lovely, it is just on the ground that she can be a pain but nothing dangerous or too difficult, just can be annoying.
Anyway, my 14 year old gelding has been flying this year, wins or gets placed in everything he does, and I think it would be a waste to stop doing what he loves doing, I cannot bear to sell him, and don't really like the idea of anyone loaning him.
So, I need to sell my mare, she has so much potential but we just seem to clash. I know, I am probably not patient enough with her and she will constantly come off worse when i compare her to my gelding which I know I shouldn't, but I do do.
So, do I advertise her myself, and possibly not get her full value as I prob wouldn't show her to her best, or try to find someone that will sell her for me at a percentage??
She is a 5 yo dutch warmblood with really good breeding, and so far has done well in some dressage and combined training.
Any advice would be really appreciated!
I have 2 horses, one who is 14 and a little angel, but last year started to get quite stiff on the hard ground doing BE, so I blew my student loan and bought a 4 year old mare, with the idea that he would start to do easier work.
All went well for the first couple of months, just doing hacking and light schooling with the mare, but where I kept her was only one other horse and they would leave her out on her own most days which in turn has made my mare so frantic and unsettled, she just never seems to relax.
However, riding her she is lovely, it is just on the ground that she can be a pain but nothing dangerous or too difficult, just can be annoying.
Anyway, my 14 year old gelding has been flying this year, wins or gets placed in everything he does, and I think it would be a waste to stop doing what he loves doing, I cannot bear to sell him, and don't really like the idea of anyone loaning him.
So, I need to sell my mare, she has so much potential but we just seem to clash. I know, I am probably not patient enough with her and she will constantly come off worse when i compare her to my gelding which I know I shouldn't, but I do do.
So, do I advertise her myself, and possibly not get her full value as I prob wouldn't show her to her best, or try to find someone that will sell her for me at a percentage??
She is a 5 yo dutch warmblood with really good breeding, and so far has done well in some dressage and combined training.
Any advice would be really appreciated!
