pricing a brood mare?

[Smiles]

How do you price a broodmare? having not sold a horse in a very long time I'm totally out of the loop in the current market. I've got a grey mare out of Bustique who is a son of Indoctro that I am thinking of selling.
She's a 16.1hh just turned 11years old maiden mare.
up to date with vaccinations, teeth etc and been used to do a bit of hacking, jumping, dressage at low levels up until to recently.

 

[ihatework]

Unless she is a top level performer herself, has proven she produces top performers, or has such an exceptional pedigree that is closely littered with top performing relatives, then she is worth meat money I’m afraid. Retired mares are ten a penny.

If I had a mare that I needed to rehome that didn’t meet the above criteria then I’d loan for ET to secure future.

 

[Bellaboo18]

To be honest you haven't got a broodmare, you've (presumably) got an injured mare as she'd be worth far more as the hacking, low level all-rounder.
I'd try and secure a long-term home.

 

[TheMule]

She has a very low value unless very well related herself (full sister to top level performers) I paid £500 for a mare last year who is well related but not performed herself (for a genuine reason, hers was not injury related)
So you probably could get 1k but I agree with IHW that I'd personally prefer to secure her future by loaning as an ET mare to one of the reputable big studs

 

[Boy Tom]

There's a certain finality when the answer to any specific question, isn't obvious.

With Flat-bred Racehorses and as with Dressage and Showjumpers too, considering the single discipline horses, the value of a mare for breeding is fairly easily and obviously assessed. She will be adjudged upon her potential either by her breeding or by her performance. The problem arises with the dual-disciplined lines and then rather than breeding, the mare's only promotion can be by her own approach to her work and her subsequent achievements ~ but even then, the failure rate is high.

 

[AmyMay]

Her value lies in her (presumably) being a nice, sound, all rounder. As she’s clearly not a brood mare.

 

[Smiles]

thank you all for taking the time to reply.

 

[eggs]

With no good competition record and a maiden mare who is unproven as a brood mare (who reading between the lines is no longer able to work) she would be worth very little as a broodmare and depending on why she is not in work maybe shouldn't even be bred from.

Places do look for mares to use for ET but most seem to want to loan rather than buy.