Mares in foal...or with a foal...why..??

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Just a pondering really.
I've noticed alot over the last few years that an awful lot of people sell mares with foals at foot or in foal.
What is the purpose of this..?? Why would you go to the trouble of putting her in foal to then sell..?? It's not just the bin end cob types either....lots of varying quality horses ????
 
Think its someone who’s giving up breeding - certainly from that mare, or their personal circumstances have changed along the way of the pregnancy, or their facilities have changed...

...i ended up with a mare in foal who foaled 8 weeks after getting her. I certainly didnt envisage THAT scenario but it just ended up happening, things fell into place type scenario. The previous owner had taken on a horse and didnt have room for the mare, anymore. Also personal circumstances changed for them too. It certainly wasn’t the plan to sell her at the time of putting her in foal.
 
A least they are honest and will admit the mare is in foal. My friends mare foaled 2 months after they got her the previous owners never told them .
 
Its generally a way of selling an older mare or a mare that for any reason can not be ridden. The value is in the foal.
Low end sellers run mares out with a stallion, if they sell it as a ridden animal they get a higher price, if its in foal or foal at foot they get a second market.
 
Asha said:
It can be breeders / studs who want to move an older broodmare on . Perhaps they have plenty of others with similar bloodlines . So they pop them in foal to make them more commercial.
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This makes sense. I can imagine that being appealing if the mare/stallion was a combination that a buyer fancied the sound of. At least you've been saved some of the faff!
 
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