Yeeeks - the price of ponies

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I have just been window shopping for ponies, not being able to afford to keep a pony at the moment one of the ways I am getting my 'fix' is by browsing horses for sale and wondering what I would get. Starting critera - Mare, 14hh-15.2, preferably backed but can be green, suitable for RC fun and maybe (very)novice eventing.

:eek: There are so many really, really nicely bred welsh C/D 3-7 year old mares (often allready in foal) for sale for under a grand. As in hundreds, most home bred and sold as 'ride or broodmare'. Then the weanlings and yearlings, loads of pure welsh youngsters for £500 or less. And stallions too, welsh or 'gypsy vanner', all up for under a grand. Even £500 or less, sound, year or more off the track TBs.

Now this is good for me in some ways, if I could afford to keep a horse at the moment I could certainly afford to buy one - but surely anyone intending to breed (especialy welsh c/ds) at the moment only has to look at the sale ads for 10 mins to see that the chances of making a profit off any of their youngsters is minimal.
 
I have been browsing too since I hope to find a 14.2 ish pony some time soon to bring on, ideally a nice friendly sort who is backed & hacking out nicely and that would enjoy being brought on as an allrounder & competition pony. A 5-6 year old connemara or welsh mare with low mileage due to having had a foal would be really interesting.

However, up here in Scotland I have seen lots of overpriced ones given the current market (not sure if they are selling though, because the ads seem to be quite old, so it may be that the owners are just being unrealistic). Maybe I haven't been looking in the right places, I haven't been to tack shops etc.

Where are you finding nice ponies in the 500-1000 bracket? :-)
 
I haven't been narrowing the area as I am only window shopping but looking at horsemart, adhorse and horse trader online among others. Most of the horses are youngsters or broodmares and/or green but to me under a grand is rediculously low for a well bred horse.
 
There are too many horses ... that is why they are so cheap at the moment. I think in order to breed horses in this country you got to love it, it isn't something people do to become rich.

I don't understand why people breed horses and ponies that are NOT well bred at the moment, that is so pointless. Around here there are several groups of ponies, mainly coloured and cob types, that are left to their own in fields full of weeds. But I still see ads for scruffy looking "nondescript" ponies with dodgy confirmation, no competition results etc for 2k plus.

May have to do some window shopping now for a nice kind well bred pony under 1k to bring on :-)
 
http://www.adhorse.co.uk/horseforsale_37460.html
In foal but a lovely looking lightly backed 4yo welsh mare £950.

http://www.adhorse.co.uk/horseforsale_36807.html
Not much of a pic but rising 4 welshX mare backed, £1000.

http://www.adhorse.co.uk/horseforsale_36651.html
Listed as a broodmare but a lovely looking aparently nicely bred Welsh D mare, £750 - could think about training yourself, likely very well handled if she has been a broodmare.

http://www.adhorse.co.uk/horseforsale_36446.html
Not exactly chunky but lovely looking allrounder for £1000

http://www.adhorse.co.uk/horseforsale_36244.html
Again not backed but likely very well handled, aparently well bred nice looking 11yo welsh mare, £900.

Just a few that caught my eye.
 
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http://www.adhorse.co.uk/horseforsale_36651.html
Listed as a broodmare but a lovely looking aparently nicely bred Welsh D mare, £750 - could think about training yourself, likely very well handled if she has been a broodmare.

this made me smile, a lot of welsh studs hardly handle there stock at all, they are rounded up like cattle one a year with a quad bike to wean the foals, put in a crush to worm them, they hearded back out.
my experience of the word 'broodmare' means almost ferral.

this is not always the case, but not unusual
 
_CJ_ said:
I have been browsing too since I hope to find a 14.2 ish pony some time soon to bring on, ideally a nice friendly sort who is backed & hacking out nicely and that would enjoy being brought on as an allrounder & competition pony. A 5-6 year old connemara or welsh mare with low mileage due to having had a foal would be really interesting.

However, up here in Scotland I have seen lots of overpriced ones given the current market (not sure if they are selling though, because the ads seem to be quite old, so it may be that the owners are just being unrealistic). Maybe I haven't been looking in the right places, I haven't been to tack shops etc.

Where are you finding nice ponies in the 500-1000 bracket? :-)
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In answer to your last question : come down South! I sold a Forest-bred, fully registered 3 year old NF gelding in October- will make 14.1hh easily as he was already that on his bum; vaccinated up to date (next booster due next July), regularly wormed, easy to do in all respects ;backed and going nicely in walk and trot; been ridden out in traffic etc etc etc. Owing to lack on interest privately I ended up taking him to the NF pony sales where he went for the princely sum of 550 guineas (I got about £500 after the commission etc was taken off) - I bought him as a 6 month old weanling straight off the Forest and did a huge amount of work, I wouldn't dare start trying to work out how much I lost on him. He was originally advertised at £1250 including tack which was still cheap
 
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