Appraise my Filly

I believe the pedigrees posted are for the dam and sire, not the filly herself. But then that would mean the filly is the result of a mare bred back to her own sire?

Of the few search results for the stallion, several are actually virtual/model horse “breeders” which is pretty weird. And even the one that appears to be real is a bit woo-woo…

I see nothing to quantify this filly being worth 5 figures, let alone 50K

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I was assuming that the breeder would not breed a filly to her own sire and then claim the resulting foal was worth 5 figures.

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From other photos I found searching, the older mare in the photo posted by OP is definitely Miss Ronika Zipnleo, so I would assume the chestnut with the star is the filly in question.

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Oh dear. Though the appearance of the operation makes one believe that it might have happened, I hope it was not done on purpose.

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Has she been tested, is she negative?
There is some Impressive in there, hopefully N/N:

https://www.aqha.com/-/genetic-test-roundup?redirect=%2Fgenetic-testing

There are several very nice horses of years past in her background.
Close up, no one knows how they compare, not much of a record recently.

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A little refresher…
Opinions on this filly? - Sport Horse Breeding - Chronicle Forums

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Oh. I remember that now.

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Sorry, I’ll try to take a better photo and edit this post later… I live an hour and a half away from her, and I guess she is having a trainer come out once a week to work with her (halter training etc) and no sorry I should edit that, it’s her parents papers, not hers

No. She went somewhere on vacation and she came back to an accidental breeding. I got talked into purchasing her… so far no regrets, but I was just curious about what other people thought as to what she was worth

Haha, yea that’s the one, I didn’t think anyone would remember :joy:

She has not been tested, I’m going to ask the breeder about it

I didn’t really think she was worth what I was told, I’m kind of just going with the flow until I can get her to my house, I can’t see her regularly and a trainer comes out to see her once a week. I know I have my work cut out for me. Just for fun, what would it take to make her worth that much?

Not my fencing, just riding it out until I get her home, not long now thankfully

For any horse today to be worth very much it needs to come from close up very famous bloodlines that have won much, be itself extremely talented at something and competing against others as talented and winning it’s share.
That is one way to make any horse worth more money to others.
To the owner that loves its horse, caring for it, working with it, that horse is priceless.

Give this advice below careful thought. We also call that doing right by your horse:

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Might want to wrap a bunch of duct tape or something on the end of that before your filly (or the mare) is seriously injured

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That looks like the end of a wood post hinge, the kind you screw into a post to hang gates, or you weld to metal pipes.
You could make a small slit on a tennis ball and push it over that.
Wondering what is doing there, that end just sticking out there? :thinking:

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I was trying to figure it out too. It also looks like there’s a fence board lying on the ground

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She won’t be worth much at all until she is brought up, backed and is shown to be a great riding horse, in competition and out. You’ll have to spend a lot of time and money to try to train up that baby to be worth 80K. It’s very unlikely.

Listen to @Bluey. The best thing you can do for any horse is train it as well as possible and enjoy riding it. Don’t look at this foal as a prospective money maker. It isn’t a good bet.

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a grinder to cut the tip off smooth would be preferable, our young stock would think a tennis ball was/is a toy. The few T posts we have set for electric fences their game is to remove the plastic protective caps on top of the posts

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I would still speak up. It is your foal? Context the communication that you noticed this in the photo and wouldn’t wish this liability on them.