Can you give me some ideas of where to look for a good fox-hunter or maybe recommend a site to check out? I am looking for one for a client and it seems like there aren’t a lot that are suitable in this area and I am going to need to expand the search.
TIA
COTH classifieds.
what area?
You said that it doesn’t seem like there are a lot that are suitable in “this area” but you didn’t say where. Since I don’t know “where” you are, my only suggestion would be to check with your local and neighboring hunts. Check out what summer activities they have and talk with people there. It seems to me that many a good hunt horse is found by word-of-mouth and not outright advertising. JMHO
Virginia
I visited a few farms about 4 years ago in Virginia, near Washington D.C. That area is full of Fox Hunters. Ask around. Some times there are auctions where only neighbors and other horse people are invited to bid. Nice horses of various bloodlines and crosses. Many of them have fox hunting experience. Trading of horses also seemed common among those that I met.
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Can you give me some ideas of where to look for a good fox-hunter or maybe recommend a site to check out? I am looking for one for a client and it seems like there aren’t a lot that are suitable in this area and I am going to need to expand the search.
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If you don’t know where to look for a fox hunter, how when you find a horse will you know if it is a good fx hunter? 
The good ones tend to not get sold. You hang on to them and keep them as marvelous company/helpers when they are retired. I make my own, and you would have to pry them out of my cold stiff hands !
Yes, I agree, most good fox-hunters never get sold. Why would they, they are worth their weight in gold? I am in SC, and have spoken to most of the people in the local hunts/area that had available horses, tried a few but none were suitable for this particular client. Thank you for the website, I will check it out.
I think that’s a very odd and rude comment - if you don’t know where to look, how will you know it’s any good? Just because I am looking outside my own network does not mean I am am incompetent idiot. What I am trying to do here is to expand my network of contacts because, as someone else mentioned, most good horses are passed on by word of mouth.
Thanks to everyone else for the generous help.
I don’t think that comment was meant rudely. I know what they meant.
Obviously you don’t hunt and don’t travel in those circles or you would know where to look for a field hunter and whom to ask.
A good field hunter is a totally different animal and has a totally different job description as opposed to a good dressage horse, show hunter, trail horse, whatever.
So if you don’t hunt, how are you going to know a good hunter if you find one?
Take someone’s word for it?
a truly good field hunter can easily cost mid five figures, that’s a lot of trust to put in someone else.
vbunny- you have a PM
We have several very good field hunters currently for sale, and know of several others. Please see my website, and let me know what you are looking for.
SidesaddleRider has beautiful horses!!!
jmho!
Virginiaequestrian.com is a start.
Be willing to look out of your area I suggest.
The best way is to find someone who makes/sells foxhunters for a living or does it professionally. There are probably plenty of them in SC especially in the Aiken area maybe? Certain Georgia & NC do.
I do hunt, although not extensively. I have a number of other horses in training and cannot spend an entire day with one. I am quite capable of determining a nice fox-hunter when I find one. I may not hunt much myself but I have ridden hunt horses for people on and off for the past 16 years and will bring them along for someone else when needed. I have 19 years professional of experience with many other horses including eventers, steeplechase, race horses and hunter jumpers and have ridden for some of the top trainers in N.A. Once again, just because I don’t personally know everyone involved in hunting it does not mean I am not a good horseman and capable of evaluating a horse’s talents. Normally I would not feel the need to argue my virtues, but it bothers me when people automatically assume the worst about a person. Why not think something nice?
To everyone else, thank you so much for all the wonderful leads and help with expanding my search. You have given me a huge boost.
No one said any of those things about you, Vbunny, I"m sorry that you took it that way.
We did not know those things and you did not tell us, we only had your original post to go by.
If I wanted a foxhunter, I would be able to do it because that’s my thing, but if I wanted a dressage horse I would have to ask around because I don’t know enough about it (just an example).
We had no idea you had such varied experience and such extensive contacts. Surely one of them can help you find a foxhunter?
Assuming someone doesn’t know something based on the information they provide doesn’t mean someone is “assuming the worst”. I"m sorry you are so sensitive, everyone was only trying to help.
btw a friend just bought a lovely mare off of www.virginiafieldhunters.com
Good luck in your search.
lots of “for sale” horses lately on FOL,
My theory of looking for hunt horses on the internet is to look only at ones who are actually pictured out hunting. Meanwhile, I really don’t understand why you don’t already know everyone in the US who is selling hunt horses. What kind of trainer are you?
Just kidding.
My neighbor, who is a whip for red mountain hounds, has one for sale. PM me for her contact info.
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