who's selling & who's buying ?

dressager - moving abroad you cant leave me! lol

Sold my connie first week in November had a massive response and went to the second person who saw him! Good horses will always sell.
So now I'm buying or trying to but it is proving very difficult. Weather hasn't helped. There doesn't seem to be much around me in Kent which is any good what so ever! So if anyone is hiding a nice gelding around about 15.1ish which can produce a nice dressage test then send it my way!! lol
 
hostess99 said:
dressager - moving abroad you cant leave me! lol

Sold my connie first week in November had a massive response and went to the second person who saw him! Good horses will always sell.
So now I'm buying or trying to but it is proving very difficult. Weather hasn't helped. There doesn't seem to be much around me in Kent which is any good what so ever! So if anyone is hiding a nice gelding around about 15.1ish which can produce a nice dressage test then send it my way!! lol
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I'm sure I'll run out of money and have to come back soon enough!

I'm always on the lookout for a horse for you. My friend has a lovely black WB for sale which is up for 10-15k cheaper than she bought it from in Germany as she needs a quick sale, but is also too big, around Risby size :(
 
dressager - thanks there must be something out there somewhere that doesn't need a bank loan to buy but everything I like seems to have a 10k+ price tag. I need a rich man....lol
 
The sad thing is even a lot of the 20k horses aren't worth looking at, very average. I think you're doing the right thing by looking off the beaten track where they aren't necessarily labelled as dressage horses.
 
smac said:
Dexter, I am intrigued... do fill in the gaps...
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I bought a yearling to make 15hands give or take. Hes currently 15hands at 16 months old! I'm anti 'big' horses and am gutted hes now on line for 16.2hh+ I then bought a weanling to keep him and my sisters youngsters company. I rent a fab 13 acre field to keep them in so it should have been fine. However then we have had our hay stolen, not just the stored bales but the hay they were actually eating! and rugs taken of their backs! So we tried to move them to a livery yard, but only got 3 of the 4 youngsters there before the snow got soo bad we had to abandon the lorry.

I then had to walk my riding horse down a 1/3 of a mile 1:5 bank in a blizzard on sheet ice in order for the remaining youngster to have company. Although i'm damn lucky I had her within walking distance and could company for Seven.

So now I have the yearling nearly 15 miles away and am struggling to get there due to the hideous weather. My sister who is managing to get there is struggling with 3 of them as they are being little sods due to only getting an hours turnout in the school.

The mare and youngster are still in the field, I have to take small rations of hay up there everyday, oh and water as the trough is 3 inches deep with ice! I passed fed up and miserable about 3 weeks ago and am now rapidly approaching suicidal!

That is really just the very edited highlights as well, it doesn't cover my so call friend who sold her yearling to a very unpleasant dealer even though I'd sorted him a good private home :(
 
Got youngsters for sale from foal to 3yos (rising 4)

Also am sadly going to be selling my beautiful SJ mare in 2011 :( she 9yos low mileage because she has been bred from and has jumped 1.20s (would have gone double clear in her first 1.30 bar taking the wrong fence in the jump off doh!)
 
just to add, none of mine are advertised or anything and I would be loath to let them go, but the way I feel right now if the right home approached me then I would happily let them go!
 
Dexter said:
I bought a yearling to make 15hands give or take. Hes currently 15hands at 16 months old! I'm anti 'big' horses and am gutted hes now on line for 16.2hh+ I then bought a weanling to keep him and my sisters youngsters company. I rent a fab 13 acre field to keep them in so it should have been fine. However then we have had our hay stolen, not just the stored bales but the hay they were actually eating! and rugs taken of their backs! So we tried to move them to a livery yard, but only got 3 of the 4 youngsters there before the snow got soo bad we had to abandon the lorry.

I then had to walk my riding horse down a 1/3 of a mile 1:5 bank in a blizzard on sheet ice in order for the remaining youngster to have company. Although i'm damn lucky I had her within walking distance and could company for Seven.

So now I have the yearling nearly 15 miles away and am struggling to get there due to the hideous weather. My sister who is managing to get there is struggling with 3 of them as they are being little sods due to only getting an hours turnout in the school.

The mare and youngster are still in the field, I have to take small rations of hay up there everyday, oh and water as the trough is 3 inches deep with ice! I passed fed up and miserable about 3 weeks ago and am now rapidly approaching suicidal!

That is really just the very edited highlights as well, it doesn't cover my so call friend who sold her yearling to a very unpleasant dealer even though I'd sorted him a good private home :(
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Sorry your having a bad time :( people are evil stealing hay and rugs! I have sympathy I am currently looking after 39 (9 of which shouldn't even be here!) I have been trundling 35 containers of water out to fields daily, the farmer has been unable to drop the hay into the far field so today I took to towing haylage bales on the back on the vitara across the snowy fields... I love my car, it puts up with so much abuse!
 
I've just bought having nearly given up looking until the Spring as was getting so fed up at not finding what I wanted. He arrived just before the snow so all plans on hold at the moment.

Am spending my time looking for a horsebox to take him out in instead!
 
I am selling a 13HH Welsh B and a 16HH TB so both ends of the scale really, definitely not buying I am cutting the numbers down now for definite :).
 
I'm toying with buying at the moment, if the right one appears locally.

Looking in the 15.2hh (full up) - 16.2hh height range. Quality MW. Forward and intelligent without being mega sharp. Preferably with a good BE/BD record. Considering a range of ages, price dependant. Fair budget for the right horse.
 
I'm not trying very hard just yet but the two boys are almost three, so time for them to go and have fun; Harry will make someone a nice, attractive all-rounder, just over 16 hands and Freddy will make someone a great fun big cob then there's the WHP yearling who needs to go too, he's a delightful cheeky chappie who will be some young girl's dream to have a lot of fun on, should turn his hoof to anything.
It'll be spring before it'll be worth advertising any of them although they're ready to go now but I don't see the point of wasting advert money just yet.
 
Selling my colt foal, although stopped advertising for the winter as don't see the point when folk can't view due to the weather.

Had a few enquiries but mostly muppets :rolleyes: quit a few of which I ended up putting off. One person decided he couldn't possibly be a potential dressage horse with a 7/8TB dam (said mare hated jumping with a passion and went to PSG/Inter I level!) despite him getting a BEF Futurity high first premium in the dressage section :sigh:

One serious enquiry who is still interested but she has just bought a new place and is negotiating on some land. No land = no more horses so will have to wait and see if anything comes from that. Failing that will advertise again in the spring.
 
Sadly selling :-( my daughter's 14.1hh super (and lively!) jumping pony. With the market being so stagnant tho am not really spending lots of money to advertise, and will either sell her word of mouth or advertise her properly in the spring! Will then probs be lookng for a nice young (ish) horse with scope and potential to enter Senior ranks with!! :)
 
For once I have nothing to sell and the last few months have had enquires from people who seem to have heard of the stud by word of mouth but they were all looking for foals
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However will bring the rising 4yo Trakehner gelding over here in the Spring to back and school on, and then decide if we try and sell him here or ship back across to the Uk to sell. And the Showmaker coloured colt will also be backed next summer and I might decide to sell him then as plans may be changing over standing a stallion in the foreseeable future, in which case, no need for any boys!

Been tempted by a few cracking mares over here but thankfully cant afford them.
 
Just sold as took me 4 years to realise youngster I brought wasn't going to be good enough to compete at level I wanted (everyone else was telling me this 2 years ago), so now looking to buy youngster. Only way I can afford top class horse is to buy as foals. Spent this week looking at 1-3 year olds and only one stud had youngster halter trained and able to show him off properly (as it happens the one now considering) the rest you're trying to view while they cling to their dozen or so mates in a huge field! Anyway now can't decide between a very nice (cheap, don't know why so cheap) yearling or hang on/take a chance on a certain foal due 2011 which I liked the sire and dam of
 
Will be selling in the spring, one novice eventer and one young dressage horse.Mind you we can't even work them at the moment so not worth advertising yet.
 
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