Would you sell a horse at Ashford market?

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I have 2 horses one a youngster who im just backing and the other a 11 yr old warmblood and he has been diagnosed with arthiritis in his neck, he is under the vets. He has had tildren in him and is in light work. I hacked out today he was a spanner and spooked, nothing new he is a typical warmblood!. im happy to keep him in work and have to go back to the vets for a work up. My sister informed me today i should just sell him at Ashford Market??!! - have to say i was a bit shocked (but then again she is very tough and hard compared to me). I was planning on keeping him until such time he could no longer cope with his neck problem and then make a decision. Thoughts?
 
No. Horses at market never make much money, never mind ones with health issues. Sell at market, and he might end up going to the meat man.
I don't understand why your sister said that when you are quite happy to keep him, and not trying to sell him
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Keep him!! I have a 13 year old Warmblood with a knackered knee and I would never think of selling him. We're very happy (spooky, scaredy cat) hackers.

I have already decided that if I can't keep him for whatever reason and he can't go to a very good friend of mine, then no one is having him.

I certainly couldn't contemplate sending him to a market.
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I can understand you dilema, but please keep him
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stick to your idea, i hate ashford market, i went there to help my instructor out coz she was selling her horses ther and it made me cry :'( I'm a complete woose and cant deal with giving horses up anyway but it was just the whole atmosphere and those small cages
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you could see how distressed the horses were and i saw one shetland try to climb up the cage and got its legs stuck in the bars
 
No, keep him or find a very good loan/companion where he'll still be in your ownership or have him PTS, don't pass something on that that will get passed around from pillar to post, its not fair on the horse to the genuine buyers.
 
Hell no - I wouldn't even sell my horse, let alone at a market.

Please do keep him. Ignore what your sister is saying and think about the horse in question.
 
While I don't think it would be a good idea to send your boy to Ashford, I've been loads of times and I've never seen horses distressed to the point of climbing the walls. I HAVE seen animals it would have been kinder to take a shotgun to, but then some people wll try to squeeze the last buck out of anything. And quite a lot of genuine buyers go there.
 
How could you sell a lame/injured horse at all to an unsuspecting buyer?

If the horse needs medication to stay comfortable, could you sleep at night knowing he now wasn't getting it?
 
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