Irish Hunters

pelena said:
I would imagine so, particularly at the sales... and especially before winter really kicks in...
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That's what I was thinking.

The banks in The Republic are in deep trouble and are going to be drawing in overdrafts and loans 'as we speak'.

So liquidity it the name of the game. It's no good having half a dozen hunters ready to go, standing up in the yard, with the bank calling in it's overdraft/loan and holding out for that top price or the extra 1000 Euros etc.

Coupled to the feed merchants in similar predicament not wanting to extend too much credit.

Then there are the buyers thinking how low could the market drop.

It will have an effect on the UK horse trade too that's for sure, especially with the price of hay and hayladge this year.
 
ther are already dealers on horsemart selling 'irish hunters' (nothing special but have "hunted in ireland") for £500-£800 obviously just bought over on the last boat
 
Quite, and once the austerity measures they will have to implement really start to bite, people just won't have the cash...
 
Actually good horses are still making good money. Not the crazy prices a few years ago but even over here if you want a good hunter then you could be looking at between 5k and 8k and that's in Euros.

There is plenty of not so good out there aswell but seems to be difficult to find a good horse with nothing wrong with it.
 
Yup ^^^ if you want a good one you will have to pay for it, quality is still making money. Plenty of rubbish available for peanuts if you want to feel that you have got a bargain :rolleyes:
 
HuntingmadinEire said:
Actually good horses are still making good money. Not the crazy prices a few years ago but even over here if you want a good hunter then you could be looking at between 5k and 8k and that's in Euros.

There is plenty of not so good out there aswell but seems to be difficult to find a good horse with nothing wrong with it.
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Fully agree with this! A good horse is still a good horse no matter what the economy. There does seem to be a large amount of buyers coming to Ireland at the moment offering scandalously low prices for nice horses. We had one guy from the UK come in and offer lower than meatmoney for a fab TB horse and when OH laughed at his joke he actually had the cheek to say but sure you're a farmer/Trainer you must owe thousands and your lucky I'm offering this much. OH promptly told him that OH's finances were none of his business but for the record he is in serious profit so far this year, doing well and he could stick his meatmoney where the sun don't shine! I know not all buyers are like that but still....the next people paid the €4k the horse was worth and have rang back (less than a week later!!) asking do we have another one as they love the first guy so much
 
Looking for a 14.2 15hh quality schoolmaster at the moment for a friend's daughter, nothing under 5K that is worth its salt.

As for hunters we sold a nice big hunt staff horse for 12K, another heavyweight for 7K, one lad going to USA for 25K (event type) and we are just hobby breeders and producers. All the decent stuff is selling and making good money maybe not the stratospheric heights of the tiger days but good enough.

The government may have made a balls, but the same rules still apply to horses - quality sells and well-produced quality sells even better.

I am sure a lot of so-called "value" horses are coming off the boat in the UK but then they always did........................................
 
Irishlife said:
but the same rules still apply to horses - quality sells and well-produced quality sells even better.

I am sure a lot of so-called "value" horses are coming off the boat in the UK but then they always did........................................
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Exactly, and the key is in the "well-produced" because not many of us put the time into doing this - climbing aboard something that was only sat on the same week and hammering it round the countryside on a day's hunting does not a well-produced hunter make:( You get what you pay for.
 
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