How would you approach selling this horse?

[Abacus]

I think he sounds great! A big forward going horse whose only vice is enthusiasm is my cup of tea.

Yours for £2.6k!!

 

[9tails]

If I were looking, I'd bite your hand off.

 

[Chuffy99]

Do people really go out 5/6 times? Surely twice a week is tops?

 

[AandK]

Do people really go out 5/6 times? Surely twice a week is tops?

See post #24:

Sorry that should of said 5 or 6 times month, not week.

If a good home is offered at 2.5k I'd bite their hand off.

 

[stormox]

With a recent SJ 1.20m and BE Novice eventing record, and vet willing to state that hock is fusing and likely to be problem free, I would as 10K, assuming nothing else on vetting. And is suitable for a brave novice.

10k?? For an unsound horse?? ( though he mightnt actually look lame you cant call a horse with fused/fusing hocks sound) No way. 2000 - 2500 at most.

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

I suggest asking your RI what s/he thinks he is worth.

 

[AmyMay]

Do people really go out 5/6 times? Surely twice a week is tops?

5/6 times a month.

 

[SusieT]

1000 at most tbh with a hock arthritis. It massively devalues him as there is no guarantee when it will cause a problem again.

 

[cundlegreen]

1000 at most tbh with a hock arthritis. It massively devalues him as there is no guarantee when it will cause a problem again.

My mare was diagnosed with this at 7. Injections didn't work, so I managed her carefully. She now has 37 BE points at the age of 12, has proved that despite xrays showing large bone spurs, suggesting that she shouldn't be able to jump, she is still jumping clear around Intermediate courses. On paper, if you didn't know about the hocks, she's worth in excess of 20k. I'd have thought this horse would be cheap at 2.5k.

 

[Ahrena]

My gelding cost me £3500 which I felt was too much on paper. I’d had him on loan and I didn’t want to lose him hence I paid it.

He had hock arthritis and also only one eye (although I knew the eye didn’t effect him).

He was/is a very laid back, easy all rounder who did very well grassroots BE and had a very good BS record. Strong but good to hunt, won and placed BE and placed every time out BS and easy enough for to teach someone the ropes.

He was 13 and failed the vetting on his hocks which we investigated and found the arthritis, and we ended up buying him for 3.5k (we negotiated a slightly lower price after he failed the vet).

It was a tough one. We almost walked away but to replace him we would of been looking at 15k or so and I adored him. He went on for a few more years and took me Novice and newcomers successfully but a lot of people told us he was too expensive and to walk away as the owner wouldn’t be able to sell him and therefore would come back to us with a lower price. We were too scared to lose him to take the punt in the end.