hayinamanger
Well-Known Member
Costs, pros and cons please.
Thank you Maesfen, no, not callous at all, l can see the advantages in handing it over to someone else. l hate selling horses and actually find myself trying to put off potential buyers.
Not at all or perhaps I was lucky.
The mare cost me £1600, all rounder type to share with future DIL and her sister, kept at mine cue DIL getting pregnant so wouldn't ride and other one rode once or twice; mare didn't put a foot wrong we just didn't get along so no point keeping. Sales livery was £40 a week (mostly at grass) which I didn't pay as such, it came off the final amount at the end. I paid for a set of shoes before she went; she went hunting, on fun rides, to shows/clinics, something I could never do and she was seen at one of them which led to her sale. I ended up with £1400 in my pocket and they had collected her too which would have been £150 if used a transporter. I was happy with that, I didn't even ask how much they made on her I was just glad mare was out of my hair with no hassle which was worth a fortune to me.