why are there not 'normal' horses for sale?

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I've been looking for a horse. however, every advert I read is about 'the next olympic potential or will excel in all spheres' etc, etc. What has happened to the 'will never change the world but good sort' type of horse? Where are the potential 'allrounders'!! I am after a youngster (preferably backed/broken) but needs bringing on, about 16hh - 17.3hh, 3-5 yrs. would like an ID X but willing to reconsider if right horse. above all I want a good temperament and a horse I can just have fun with and potter around doing a bit of everything! Anyone else find this? I just want a 'normal' horse who will be my pet and a price tag that reflects this!! now i wonder if they even exist??
 
We get a lot through our yard actually, (dealers) which in fact match your description perfectly, but I think we're a bit far north! You have to appreciate though that, that type of horse is a hard type to find and therefore will normally come with a £4000 price tag. Have you tried ringing sandalls farm, they have nice horses to suit your description too.
 
They are most certainly out there - I think half the problem is some sellers being unrealistic about the 'potential' of their horses and the idea that breeding in a known stallion automatically raises the stakes on the potential of the offspring.

If you look on tack shop walls, Friday Ads, NFED you will find plenty of perfectly good horses that will happily turn a hoof to any RC activity and may even affiliate without the elevated claims and corresponding price tags
 
They are out there, alot wrongly described by sellers saying they'll achieve far more than they actually will. Many dealers would love a yard full of the type of horse you are looking for because they can sell these all day long & they will never be returned because 'they do what it says on the tin'.

As has been said, Tack shop notice boards, local press, speak to farriers, Horsemart, Adhorse, Pony Club, they are out there................ honest
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Thanks - just driving me a bit mad really. Seen a couple I liked but price tag so high - Really green horses, only just backed and owners saying well he is out of X and Y, which is well and good and I wouldn't undermine good breeding but some owners think this is all a horse needs to be a huge price! Will carry on the search. Prob is I have a fixed budget of 3-4k and can't really afford to go above that, however I think that is a reasonable amount to be able to buy a horse which is absolutely green! What do others think fair amount or not??
 
Sounds like an absolutely fair price amount to me, I'm sure you'll find what you're after for that.
Have you been discounting the ones that seem *too* cheap?
 
Have also looked at those that are 'too cheap' but mainly resulted in horses with either death wishes, confirmation which could be mistaken for a giraffe or are like the first born of satan!! lol!
the perfect horse for me must exist out there!!
 
Can I recommend Henryhorns stock, if I where looking for another youngster a visit to her would be on my list, she breeds lovely nice young horses perfectly capable of taking a rider affiliated and by no means 'ordinary' but she does try to breed horses that have a good temperament and are suitable for us mere motals and they have a realistic price tag.
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I was just going to say i have a "normal" horse for sale, got him advertised on the web, as well as two tack shops. How many phone calls about him??? One.
 
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its not rude at all. its being realistic.

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How is that being realistic?!

I have a 17.3hh who is my OH's pet, he rides when he feels like it, if he could never ride him again we wouldnt care.
 
I think that's a very fair amount. I have been unsuccessfully advertising a 6 year old 15.3hh mare that needed schooling if you wanted to do any more than hack (she's had 18 months off to have a foal) for £2500 including all tack and rugs (so the horse was actually only £2k) and all the comments were that she too expensive!!
 
I'm 5.9 so need/like bigger horses. and when i say 'pet' i mean I want a horse I can do a bit of everything with and enjoy looking after and loving it on the ground. height just never really bothered me so isn't really an issue. Horse I had on loan was 17.3 and I adored him.
 
They are about but, as said, increasingly misrepresented to sound "competative". It's a shame being suitable for the "average" rider has become a bad thing!

They are also in demand and, as we know, market drives price. AI has thrown a spanner in it as so many useful mares who would have traditionally gone to the local useful stallion now get put in foal to highly bred competition horses suitable for a totally different purpose. I guess the thought is one will get something that thinks and rides "easy" but jumps a house - hardly a sensible or realistic goal! Much more likely to get something that thinks like an Olympic prospect but lacks the talent and conformation to do that job. And "temperment" means a whole different thing at that level - it means "competative and ridable" not "lives happily anywhere and stays sane with limited riding".

One woman I knew had bred her slightly hot, largish but otherwise quite acceptable pleasure mare to a VERY successful European dressage sire and wondered why the resulting filly was rocket powered. Um, because they're supposed to be like that? Then, when the filly was too much for her, she wanted the sort of money the offspring that stallion commanded on successful competition bred dams. A shame as she could have spent a whole lot less money and produced a much more suitable/salable horse.
 
a friend of mine is selling a four year old chestnut mare about 16hh showing good progress has done a bit of jumping not seen fillers and not spooky at all. she is asking for £2800. with tack and rugs. She is giving up horses, dont know if she is what you are looking for.
 
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I've been looking for a horse. however, every advert I read is about 'the next olympic potential or will excel in all spheres' etc, etc. What has happened to the 'will never change the world but good sort' type of horse? Where are the potential 'allrounders'!! I am after a youngster (preferably backed/broken) but needs bringing on, about 16hh - 17.3hh, 3-5 yrs. would like an ID X but willing to reconsider if right horse. above all I want a good temperament and a horse I can just have fun with and potter around doing a bit of everything! Anyone else find this? I just want a 'normal' horse who will be my pet and a price tag that reflects this!! now i wonder if they even exist??

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nearly exactly what I want but looking at 5 - 8 years old as I wouldn't have the experience to bring something on. If you're south east based PM meas I know someone with a stunner for sale x
 
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