will my dressage diva ever find a new mommy so I can be one?

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I'm beginning to get really depressed. When I bought my foal I was recovering mentally from an incident that my doctor and councillor said would affect me forever. It turns out they were wrong and I am fairly normal after all. Having met a lovely man and been with hho long enough to know he is relatively normal too, we want to have a family.

Meanwhile, foal has grown up,been backed and turned into a fledgling dressage diva.

I am very fond of her but darent risk the diva element round pregnancy, nor am I particularly into dressage but she is unlikely to ever be the jumper I wanted.

Although she is green I have had her valued at about five k due to her breeding looks and paces. Aware of the current climate financially and that she needs to continue her education I have priced her a good deal below this but not much interest.

Is anything selling? Everytime I look at her I hear my biological clock tick but I have to do right by her and sort her a mommy first.
 
I thought you meant because he was on hho a long time it meant he was definately normal.... :D :D

Some are most definately NOT so normal around here haha....

I'm selling my homebred at the moment and only had a few calls, but someone came and viewed yesterday and they really liked her so fingers crossed.... People are buying I think it's just a more drawn out process of finding those people at the moment... Good luck with selling... And pregnancy of course - it's AWFUL!! :D

Xx
 
The market's bad at the moment. My sister's a dealer and in 'normal' times sells two to three horses a week; she's sold six in the past eight weeks. And people are lookiing for perfection for two grand!
 
think the market must be really poor, i saw a 17hh 4yo cleveland bay recently professionally broken, would excel show hunter etc for sale for £1500 in the paper the other day!!! i'm trying to sell a 2 year old cob and had no phone calls at all, he's reasonably priced too for what he is, you could try finding a loan home, i did this for my mare when i was pregnant.
 
I thought of loan but she will never do the job she was bought for ie show jumping so I don't see the point risking ending up with something someone else has ruined and I have to fix but can't go out and enjoy. I'd be fixing it with l small child go tow or worse if it goes wrong and she gets returned in a state when i'm 8 months gone.
 
ooo comp diva - please PM me the detials!!! :D - Love my Clevelands... :D

generally i would agree with others - Market is slow - Hang on in there - Your girlie will find a lovely home, just got to find it for her 1st!
 
Hi, I'm kind of in a similar situation. Except I adore my mare and she is a keeper. BUT my partner and I decided to try for a baby and I knew I wouldn't be able to ride her once pregnant as she is just too sharp.
I put her out on loan to a friend. Who has had her since November, last year. The plan was she went there until after the baby was born and I was able to ride again (sept time) but that didn't work out as said friend told me, last week that she can no longer afford to keep her. Cue a lot of panic at getting my girl back and being 7 months pregnant!
However, managed to work it so she goes to another good friend who is closer and who is very experienced with babies.
So she moved last Friday and I am so relieved but I think I have been quite lucky.

I did contemplate selling her but the market is so dreadful and, when I seriously thought about it, I adore her too much.
 
i may have totaly lost it and i dont no if people even to this but could you swop her. maybe swop her for a 4 year old jumper whos been backed and trained to a certain extent but needs turning away for mature. and maybe the person whos found themselves with a jumper wants a dressage diva.

you never know

so maybe add to her add that you wouldnt mind a swop in the right conditions
 
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