Re: [RC] how did you find your horse? - Lynne Glazer
One rat report, from the buy and sell side:
I looked at Dreamhorse to see if there were proven endurance horses for sale, to determine whether it was worth listing my horse there. At the time I looked, about 5 weeks ago, to my surprise there were none listed. I listed my horse at endurance.net, and got the eyeballs I was hoping for, especially since he was listed at a premium price and I wanted to make sure he went to an endurance and not a show home. Ours is a specialized market and word of mouth is best, of course. Don't forget Endurance News classified or photo ads. People want photos, of horses in motion, well shot. I like looking at the horses for sale at endurance.net, though I'm not in the market.
Check out the athletes at http://www.rockinghorsearabians.com, no mystery about whether or not their sale horses can move, shaggy in winter's foggy light or shed out in spring! OK, I do their images. ;-)
On Aug 15, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Cindy Stafford wrote:
hi all, was wondering if you could assist me with an informal survey. There's an arabian breeder that I help out with marketing on some things. Was curious what is the most effective way at reaching out to people, such as the endurance rider market.
So was curious if you were shopping and didn't know of a horse thru a friend or someone, what would be your way to find a suitable horse?
Would you look at ads in a horse magazine, such as modern arabian horse? Use Google or internet word searches to find farms? Search internet classifieds such as equine.com? Look at the AHA registry classifieds? Endurance.net classifieds? Ask the winner of the Tevis if their horse was for sale? :) Other?
