My mum always says that people never sell a good horse

Of course they are for sale for a reason......& of course the seller has a reason for selling the horse
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Also horses are what you make them
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Most horses need schooling to varying degrees & some horse will reach far greater heights than others....... I think your Mum is just stating the obvious.

A month or so ago Casabacus, who won Hickstead Derby was for sale on H&H.....by your Mum's reasoning there must be something wrong with him & not worth buying
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Well, I think it is clear that people do sometimes (perhaps even often) sell 'good' horses for perfectly genuine reasons.

If your Mum means that the very, very best horses are rarely advertised for sale, then she is probably right.

My horse was already an international (in-hand) champion, and very emphatically Not For Sale when I asked to go and see him (he had been strongly recommended by an expert friend/mentor, who kept telling me I MUST go and see this colt). When I phoned asking to come and see him, the owners told me about 16 times that Tobago was Not For Sale.

I finally persuaded them to let me just come and admire him. Of course, I fell instantly in love, and then had to beg and plead for ages until they eventually agreed to let me buy him, and then only with retained breedings and umpteen other conditions, including that they would get to keep him and show him for the rest of the show season...

The owners are international Arab judges and show trainers, and had bought Tobago when he was only a few days old, from a breeder who sells all her colts as she does not keep stallions, only mares (and even she has retained breedings to him, and is sending two of her best mares next year).

So this is kind of a typical example of the sort of horse who would never normally be sold, and would certainly never need to be advertised. I am very, very lucky to have him - still can't quite believe he is really mine!
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I disagree... apart from the classic one of out growing sometimes the riders aspirations change.
We bought a lovely youngster with a scopey jump for my daughter to bring on with the intention of eventing and after some dressage she started taking her show jumping and got hooked on affiliated show jumping..... so we have now brought a youngster that we hope will have the potential to showjump all the way up the heights and have a lovely quality mare for sale through no fault of her own...never lame, not marish.....not a novice ride but certainly a good horse.

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Sorry I disagree.
There can be numerous reasons people sell horses that can be classed as good, from going to University to illness to just not being able to afford to keep them.
We're about to sell one of ours, potentially it could go a lot further in it's career, but there has to be a limit to how many horses you can ride and keep for financial reasons if nothing else (last week's farrier bill was just under four hundred pounds..try paying that regularly!).
The decision which one to sell was made on partly it's age, partly the potential rise in value of some of the younger ones, and not because we want to make money.
I would certainly class her as a "good" horse for someone, and not for sale because she is a problem horse.
Of course there has to be a reason for every horse for sale, but not necessarily for bad reasons all the time.
 
i also have to disagree with your ma, i just sold my beautiful appolosa after 5 years cause i put on 2 much weight and she was slowing up, im sooooo fat.....
 
Well im selling Mia as i am expecting a baby!! Also shes only 12.3hh and too small for me to ride comfortably. My friend has been riding her and she has no quirks, if i sell then i advertise the horse as it is, as i would like that done to me.

Would hate for a child to get a pony and its not what the person says it is and totally ruin the childs confidence. There is gold amongst the coal, thats what i was told when i was looking lol. You can usually tell what ones are lying through their back end
 
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