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She’s priced lower because she’s very green in the school the seller said and she’s only really done hacking recently
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I'd be deeply supsicois. She shoould have sold stright away at the price if shes as described. Mine was 3.5k same level of greeness, no prior competition experience and flat sarcoids. And he was a bargain through a friend of a friend
 
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Last week my friend bought very similar, also green in the school for £6,500. In the current market I am surprised that mare has not already been snapped up at that price. You’d better go and try her quick.
 
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not sure what amount of greenness you can cope with but found a couple who may do on horsequest
258404, welshd mare 14.3 10yrs 4500 neg
255879 connie gelding 14.2 7 yrs 4500
257537 welsh d gelding 14.2 13yrs 4900 o.n.o.

they all need sorting out in different ways, the first 2 are in the south of the country and the last one is north west.

didnt know where in the country you are
 
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just a thought, i am 5ft 5 and 15.2 was perfect for me, my loan horse was 16hands and much,much safer than my 15,2..and i considered not even going to see her as i was fixed on getting something 14.2 to 15 hands.. if you are young and fit the larger horse shouldnt be a problem, i am old and arthritic and the riding was never a problem but grooming and putting saddle on was and also putting rugs on and off and you may find bigger is more sensible if that is important to you
 
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Thank you everyone! Sorry for the late reply.

I’m unsure whether to carry on searching as the ones for sale in my budget aren’t too great, I’m tempted to just lurk and hope something comes up. Gives me chance to add to my budget too. Until then, friend on my yard informed me her daughter in law has a lovely little 14.3hh cob sat in the field getting fat because owner is pregnant.

She’s bringing me the tack tomorrow to try him out! Won’t be to buy but I imagine it’ll be like a full loan type thing. Who knows, could be long term. Can’t see them wanting to bring 4 kids (including a new born) to the yard in winter ?
 
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that sounds hopeful.....maybe if you start looking as winter is coming prices might be a bit lower and maybe wont all have quirks...i couldnt find anything in your budget that didnt have behaviour or physical problems
 
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I hope you find something that fits.

I did go down the rabbit hole of looking at some of the horses, especially the Connies.
 
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The market for riding horses is nuts. My budget was the same as yours. Ended up with a very pretty green 10-year old Highland who's awesome hacking out, but a trainwreck in the school. He would have been about 2K more if he could school without meltdown, so I was okay with that. The schooling is something I can fix, but at this time of year, it's a future me problem.
 
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splashgirl45 said:
that sounds hopeful.....maybe if you start looking as winter is coming prices might be a bit lower and maybe wont all have quirks...i couldnt find anything in your budget that didnt have behaviour or physical problems
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That’s exactly what I thought.

Absolutely nothing is making my heart sing at the moment so I’m not forcing myself to buy something that I don’t actually want! Maybe towards winter people will sell up, I know prices are coming down slowly but the quality is too.

I’d LOVE a highland, schooling isn’t a problem for me as I don’t do it. Mainly hacking!
 
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Have a look at ex racers. You get a lot for your money and lots are very quiet and easy. Mines a total sweetheart. Sadly prices still appear to be climbing. I've never known anything like it and I'm hoping I never need to buy another one as I wont be able to afford it!
 
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there have been some nice highlands for sale but all of the ridden ones have been £6000 or above..i have always liked them, i used to ride a part bred dun when i was 15 and loved him, if someone wasnt a good rider he wouldnt go out of walk, he was great fun..
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I'm Dun said:
Have a look at ex racers. You get a lot for your money and lots are very quiet and easy. Mines a total sweetheart. Sadly prices still appear to be climbing. I've never known anything like it and I'm hoping I never need to buy another one as I wont be able to afford it!
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There’s such a stigma around them I hadn’t thought of an ex racer. What do I need to look for?
 
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i might be wrong but friends have had flat horses and have had soundness problems and are now beautiful field ornaments so have now got ex national hunt horses as they think they are more likely to stay sound if they have survived jumping and also they are normally a bit chunkier than the flat horses..so far both of them have been ok, fingers crossed. its the chance you take with any horse i suppose, both of my friends horses seem reasonably sensible and are lovely to handle..
 
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I think it's easier to go up in size rather than down. Going from Ebony (14.1) to Archie (16.3) felt fine - although Eb rode much bigger than his size and Arch rode much smaller - but when I tried a 15.2 very substantial cob when I was looking this time, he felt tiny and I couldn't adjust.
 
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Annagain said:
I think it's easier to go up in size rather than down. Going from Ebony (14.1) to Archie (16.3) felt fine - although Eb rode much bigger than his size and Arch rode much smaller - but when I tried a 15.2 very substantial cob when I was looking this time, he felt tiny and I couldn't adjust.
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Ah my fell I’ve just sold was an Ebony too!

My Connie x was 14.1/2 but rode really big yet a friends 14.1 huge chunky cob felt small! It’s hard because I don’t know what I actually want, type wise.

I know what I want in a horse and what I want from it, but not the type - as long as it can do the job I guess.

Part of me thinks “ get a family cob, something the kids can ride too” but I also want to be selfish and get the horse I want…haha
 
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I saw him but the photos really don't do him justice his probably a lot nicer in the flesh and if stood up properly, I saw some terrible examples of sales photos yesterday and the horses were not cheap either.

Including one with the owner cuddling the horse who wants to see that its dire.
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I’m fed up of crap adverts. No wonder people aren’t selling their horses, I enquired about one today that sounded amazing…was sent videos and stuff and then I asked why they were selling (horse was 5k at 15 year old - I thought wow must be good?!) “oh she rears” ??‍♀️
 
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I viewed the sweetest little hermits cob this afternoon and I am smitten. She is smaller and younger than I wanted but she’s as wide as she is tall and only 4 so got some chunking out to do. The kids loved her, they were sitting on her, messing with her and walking all around her - she didn’t flinch. I guess it would be nice to have something safe enough for them to mess with too, she’s local too and the seller is a lovely person.

Just need to have a good think really, in a theoretical world she’s perfect, literally everything I could ask for and she’s cheap. Professionally backed, known history and a friend of mine is good friends with Diane from hermits and says she will make a real good solid mare. I’ve just sold a youngster though because she is just that…a youngster. But the temperaments are completely opposite and the breaking part has been done…so what do I do ?
 
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PictusSweetDreams said:
I viewed the sweetest little hermits cob this afternoon and I am smitten. She is smaller and younger than I wanted but she’s as wide as she is tall and only 4 so got some chunking out to do. The kids loved her, they were sitting on her, messing with her and walking all around her - she didn’t flinch. I guess it would be nice to have something safe enough for them to mess with too, she’s local too and the seller is a lovely person.

Just need to have a good think really, in a theoretical world she’s perfect, literally everything I could ask for and she’s cheap. Professionally backed, known history and a friend of mine is good friends with Diane from hermits and says she will make a real good solid mare. I’ve just sold a youngster though because she is just that…a youngster. But the temperaments are completely opposite and the breaking part has been done…so what do I do ?
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Don't hang about if you want her, or she will be gone from under you!
 
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