What are meat/dealer prices for unwanted small TBs at the moment?

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Just reread the thread title and it sounds dreadful, but I do like to make them clear! A friend of mine is thinking of taking on a TB, don't know what's up with it but for whatever reason (behavioural not physical I know that) the owner is desperate to get rid and considering dealers. Friend is wondering what to offer, as owner told her £2k. We know a dealer isn't going to give her that! I presume they pay meat prices? Can anyone help? Don't want nice friend to get fleeced. Thanks all.
 
£500, if that...........

I have just been offered a 7 yr old ex pointer off the track for free - owner can not shift it for love nor money and just wants a good home for it.
 
Thanks FM. I thought around that mark...thing is friend really wants to do a good deed, and she has the space, time and oodles of experience and good backup, but I think she's looking at a while to sort it out, from the sounds of how desperate the owners are to get rid. She knows it bucks, rears and naps. I don't know anything about the owners but if they have any conscience at all I wonder would they just let my friend have it, rather than sell it to a horrible local dealer
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to be honest I would tell your friend to steer well clear and get one which does not have all those complications. A friend of mine is a breeder in the TB industry. And he cannot give away his yearlings/ 2year olds. He as several mares which are about 10 - 15 which are lovely jumpers and would make people hunters - no takers. his £15000 guinea colt sold recently for £800. a lorry load of TB's was abandoned at the sales because it was not worth the transport cost to take them home as they were worth less than the cost of the transport. And these are all well bred, nice natured horses.
 
Check out the 15.1hh Wiltshire ad in H&H on the right hand list of ads too >>>> £500 TB, amazed they'd pay the H&H advertising costs, they must be really struggling to shift her.
 
Don't touch it!

If she takes £500 to sales she'll get her pick of any nice young horses that just won't make the track, but which have largely been professionally handled from birth, and are still a pretty much a blank canvas - it's really not worth buying someone else's problems!
 
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