Would you be put off viewing a potential competition horse because its not clipped?

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DollyCoblet

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Hi,
My mare is going to go up for sale in the next week of so, she is a mare bred for eventing but has the attitude and scope to do anything. She is as yet un-competed due to my work commitments. She's rising 6 and was broken as a 5 year old due to being late to mature.
I have turned her away this winter due to lack of time so she is looking like a wooly bear, however she is shedding her coat at a great rate and im worried clipping her will spoil her summer coat.
So my question is would you view a horse that has potential, is currently fit, being pro schooled and working beautifully, ready to go on and have some fun but not clipped, would this put you off? or would you just look through the work sweat and at the horse underneath!
I have been told she MUST be clipped to be sold or else no one will be interested, are people really this fickle?

Any thoughts greatly recieved.
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Whoever told you that is talking out of their backside, sorry.
Shouldn't make a jot of difference, clipping isn't going to alter her conformation or the ability to do the job she's intended for and if the buyers can't see that then they're not as experienced as they should be I'm afraid.
 
Wouldn't bother me, I would expect a youngster who has been turned away to be unclipped, I would wonder why it had been clipped if it wasn't in work & would think that maybe you were not telling the truth about it being a roughed off youngster.
 
maesfen said:
whoever told you that is talking out of their backside, sorry.
Shouldn't make a jot of difference, clipping isn't going to alter her conformation or the ability to do the job she's intended for and if the buyers can't see that then they're not as experienced as they should be i'm afraid.
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Thank you for the replies and restoring my faith in human kind! I thought I was maybe going mad or was just plain weird as it would not bother me and I would just look past the hair as all of you have said. She has bags of talent and scope, surely people can see this and if not they arent really suitable for a horse like her anyway.
It is infact the yard she is at for schooling/sales livery that has told me she needs to be clipped or no one will be interested, I feel at the time with her losing her winter coat clipping her will just spoil her summer coat for her new owner.
 
It shouldn't make a difference but I do believe it could and in this current financial climate I would make every effort to tidy her up.

What about just taking out her jaw line at least to tidy up her face?
 
If the horse was being ridden a lot -ie enough to be fit to go out & start competing/ a few hrs hunting, I would ask why it's not clipped.

I may be the only one here to say this, but just as if the horse was brought to me tacked up, I would question why the owner didn't wait for me to watch the horse being tacked up & the same vein of question would go through my mind for the clip.

Perhaps offer to clip the horse prior to a vetting if the question comes up.
 
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