Value with a blemish?

[Roxanne]

Last year I bought myself a lovely young TB gelding who is very well bred to event. He is an absolute dream to handle and never had a nasty thought in his life. He moves beautifully and although not long started is showing some lovely work on the flat. He also will pop over small jumps with no problem although we haven't done much of this.

My problem is that I have overhorsed myself and I have realised that a TB is not right for me at my standard of riding and at my age. He is schooled for me by a talented dressage rider at the moment.

He has a small wart/sarcoid on his shoulder and I realise that this will affect his value if and when I sell him.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how the sarcoid/wart will affect his value and also the best way forward with selling?

If I could I would rather not sell but loan him to someone who was wanting to bring him on and compete him. Are there people who might be interested in loaning him in these circumstances? At the end of the day loaning just might not be practical.

Any thoughts advice are welcome.

 

[Divasmum]

If I were you I would advertise at the price you have in mind. Then after viewing and vetting see if the buyer asks you to bring the price down.

 

[Roxanne]

Duhhh... Do you know I never even thought of doing that. Thanks
Sometimes the most obvious solution passes us by.

 

[Sam22]

You could treat the lump and get it removed then you wont have to worry about dropping the price at all. I asume you are insured.

 

[Roxanne]

Not insured because a) He was vetted with said blemish when I bought him but I didn't know what a sarcoid was b) I live in France and they don't do insurance really for vets fees or if they do it costs mega bucks.

I am trying Thuja homeopathic remedy for it at the moment and it definitely looks smaller. I don't know if I would be able to do the Liverpool cream here and the vets where I am are absolute rubbish so wouldn't trust their judgement at all. I have tried 3 different ones now and they were all equine vets and they were all equally in the dark ages as far as horse care is concerned. One of them asked me why I fed sugarbeet pulp to my horse as it is only a laxative for horses and is not a feedstuff!