The "For Sale" video: What do you want to see?

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As title really.

Walk, trot, canter -- presumably. Jumping. Loading. Having feet lifted, Tacking up….

What am I missing?

A picture speaks a thousand words and all that stuff! "Good in all paces" doesn't quite cover it, does it?
 
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Depends what your advertising the horse as. Dressage horse -I would like to see a test. Jumper -a round. Happy hacker going along a busy road.
I get suspicious if a video is very cut up, not showing transitions so try and avoid that.
 
Just a simple walk, trot, canter and maybe some lateral work. Tacking up could be a good add-on, just to show the horse off without tack first. If it's a young horse, I would even recommend loose schooling.
 
Horse stood up side-on to camera, 360 degree around the horse (camera moves), all four legs from hoof to top. Horse walking in hand STRAIGHT towards and away from the camera, ditto trot. Rider mounting horse, then W/T/C including all upwards and downwards transitions. Small jump (not too fussed about this, but then I'm not a jumpy person). Horse standing tied up, and loading/unloading in a box or trailer. All quite short, no more than 5mins total.

If I'm going to travel to see a horse I'd like to be sure it's not a waste of everybodies time before I go. And I have sold horses from videos, some as far away as Hawaii.
 
The horse stood square then show from both sides and in front and behind.
Walking ond trotting in straight lines on the hard .
Walk trot and canter ridden including the free rein walk .
Jumping and upright and a spread .
Of it's an trained horse show a bit of the dressage movements at the level it's at .
 
Conformation of the horse, walk trot & canter including transitions. Basically video evidence to back up what is being said in the advert. If the horse is advertised as a show jumper then show the horse jumping a course & at the height the advert says.
 
Cortez said:
Horse stood up side-on to camera, 360 degree around the horse (camera moves), all four legs from hoof to top. Horse walking in hand STRAIGHT towards and away from the camera, ditto trot. Rider mounting horse, then W/T/C including all upwards and downwards transitions.
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.............on BOTH reins is what I would add to the above. It's amazing how many videos just show horse working on one rein or t'other!
 
Cortez said:
Horse stood up side-on to camera, 360 degree around the horse (camera moves), all four legs from hoof to top. Horse walking in hand STRAIGHT towards and away from the camera, ditto trot. Rider mounting horse, then W/T/C including all upwards and downwards transitions. Small jump (not too fussed about this, but then I'm not a jumpy person). Horse standing tied up, and loading/unloading in a box or trailer. All quite short, no more than 5mins total.
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^^This

One of the studs for Mérens in the Ariège does this - a 5 min video of everything they advertise the horse as doing; including going through a tunnel, over a bridge, cantering up a verge, transition to trot to cross a path and off into canter again etc. Fabulous all round review, and very helpful to someone a 12 hour drive away. I ended up buying closer to home, but the detailed videos were a great help.
 
Vodkagirly said:
Depends what your advertising the horse as. Dressage horse -I would like to see a test. Jumper -a round. Happy hacker going along a busy road.
I get suspicious if a video is very cut up, not showing transitions so try and avoid that.
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Agree - so many videos are cut not to show transitions, especially from trot to canter. Makes me suspicious too, although it wouldn't necessarily put me off going to see something if I liked it in all other ways.
 
gunnergundog said:
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.............on BOTH reins is what I would add to the above. It's amazing how many videos just show horse working on one rein or t'other!
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I'd also like to see the horse ridden away in straight lines, front and rear view, 3 paces.
If you can visibly demonstrate soundness, not just good paces, it makes it much more inviting for a prospective buyer to travel.
 
WTC in the school on both reins. Doesn't need to be very long, I get bored watching videos of horses trotting for ages and ages, just long enough to see perhaps one lap of a 20 x 40 school and a circle on each rein, canter transition and the same in canter - can't bear choppy videos. Couple of jumps - an upright and a spread showing approach, jump and the horse being ridden away - it makes me suspicious when people edit out either the approach or what happens after the horse lands, and horse being cantered in an open field and coming back to trot / walk sensibly. Whole thing shouldn't be any longer than five minutes. Personally I prefer conformation shots to be still photos so I can zoom in on anything I have a question mark over
 
Agree with all transitions on both reins, being caught in feild, being tacked up and mounted and a bit on the road and jumping if possible, i went to see several horses who were shown walking then trotting then cantering but no actual going up and down , all edited cuts and the horses were either quirky, one did a weird leg kick in the flesh from trot to canter , another fidgeted like mad to mount, another was very speedy into canter , another jumped in its skin at some people tidying a garden, a decent video will get more people coming to view as they can see how well the horse will suit them, i saw my girl doing everything except hacking as i tried her out on one and she was brill, i also had my instructor look at the videos and this saved me several wasted trips as she noticed things i didnt with other horses.
 
Walk trot and canter on both reins with no editing - small course of jumps, again no editing if possible.

Because I have always lived in remote locations I usually do a video of horse being tacked up, mounted and ridden away from stable, maybe being loaded, and ridden down the road - I do prefer to take the effort to do this, saves a lot of time in the long run - also if the horse is being competed maybe a couple of videos away from home.

I wouldn't include all of these videos with the advert, but would email them on to interested parties :)
 
From experience the cheaper a horse is the more people seem to want to see. I sold an allrounder hack type and people wanted everything. Tacking up, picking up feet, mounting ect (I found it all very picky and time consuming to be honest!) the higher end horses I sell people want to see it pop a decent fence/few fences
 
Nightmare before Christmas said:
From experience the cheaper a horse is the more people seem to want to see. I sold an allrounder hack type and people wanted everything. Tacking up, picking up feet, mounting ect (I found it all very picky and time consuming to be honest!) the higher end horses I sell people want to see it pop a decent fence/few fences
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Thats generally because somebody looking for a high end competition horse has the skills to deal with rude, bargy horses and as long as they do the job, everything can be worked through. For your average amateur they probably don't have as large a tool box.
OP, for an allrounder type I would want mounting, wtc on both reins including all transitions up and down, and the approach, flight, and get away of both an upright and a decently sized oxer.If it is advertised as a good hack I would also want a 5sec clip of them walking on the road past a van/truck/tractor etc. Conformation shots should be included in the photos not the video.
 
Really excellent replies, thank you all so much. I live in the Scottish Highlands, north of Inverness, so a video seems a good way of showing what I have for sale. But I can see a problem to limiting a video to 5 mins. But making several shorts for those who want more detail seems to be the way to go, plus perhaps a film strip of stills for Photobucket.
 
I'd usually just want to see a test or parts of a test, a course of show jumps and maybe some videos of XC schooling. I'm normally looking for competition horses so ideally the videos would be of the horse at a competition. I'd rarely travel more than 2hrs to look at/buy a horse so I can easily go and view it and judge whether I can pick it's feet out there.

I guess I'm not too fussed about them hacking perfectly, I care most about paces, jumping technique and rideability. I can judge most other things when I'm there and I'm pretty fussy at the viewing - I could never buy a horse from just a video!
 
I did a vid of me loading her, nice and brief and well edited so you saw the important part and that she stood (ie you don't need ten feet before the ramp in the vid). Bit of a jumping lesson and some stills showing other good behaviour. People who bought her tried her in a wet field in a very minimal way because the vid had shown her doing everything very nicely.
 
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