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I found my two current horses different ways.  One, my CMK gelding Sundance, I found initially by searching for CMK breeders on the internet...one had a big sales list, and the only horse sold at that point was the one I liked best, based on one pic and his pedigree.  Eight months later I found him listed on endurance.net (owner had lost her job) and snapped him up.  He's every bit the athlete his pedigree says he should be.  He'll be 8 next month.

 

My other horse (Bear) was kind of a fluke...I wasn't even shopping.  I was borrowing a friend's horse, waiting for the CMK gelding to grow up (he was just shy of 3 when I bought him).  The friend had another gelding she was trying to sell.  I wasn't interested...I'm not into Egyptian horses.  He was almost straight Egyptian.  He was very green and spooky, a few months shy of 6 yrs old.  I offered to take him home and put some trail miles on him to settle him down and make him more marketable.  He moved kinda nice.  Ok, so he moved real nice.  He kinda liked the trails.  Actually, he really liked the trails.  He was nice and forward.  Nice trot.  Smooth canter.  Didn't have that nice big deep hip I like, but an adequate one, and the boy could go down the trail.  Nice personality.  Good legs.  Sensible, not a dingbat.  He was 14.3 1/2h, so not too tall, a nice height (I like 'em short).  I started to like him, and didn't take long till I REALLY liked him.  She made me an offer I couldn't refuse, but I did refuse, but my husband told me I needed to buy him (I love this man!), so I did.  Oh...and then the damn horse grew 2 inches in the next 10 months!!!  I still tease my friend that I want my money back.  <G>  He's turned out ok...awesome metabolics, has done 3 100s, etc.  :)  Except for that height thing...

 

Dawn Carrie, Texas

 

On 8/19/08, Carla Richardson <richardson.carla@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Continuing on Lynne's ideas, I'd say it is a good idea to have photos (good ones!) available of any horse you're trying to sell.  Having a professional like Lynne photograph your horse, if possible, would help in finding good buyers, and in getting your asking price.

 

Incidentally, over the past 8 years I've bought three horses over the internet, and have been thrilled with all three, all three are Arabian geldings.  One is now retired, bought him in 1999, he's 19 now and busy being the herd monitor.  The other two are 8 and 5, mere babies.  They all turned out to be "as advertised," isn't that a joy!

 

Carla Richardson

Colorado

 

On 8/18/08, Lynne Glazer <lynne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.  ;-)

 

Lynne

 

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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?