I don’t want to sell her, but just curious how much she’s worth. I have an 8 year old registered PHBA/AQHA mare. 15’3. Has over 300 points in the amateur division of PHBA, 116 youth PHBA points, was the reserve novice amateur high point horse in the nation last year, with 6 national top tens, has 3 ROM’s (all this is in PHBA not AQHA) Shown in showmanship, hunter in hand, hunter under saddle, equitation, and horsemanship. Could do pleasure, but moves prettier when she’s moved out (gets tight through shoulders when she goes that slow…she can CREEP, but she doesn’t like doing it). Flashy hunter under saddle horse.
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I don’t want to sell her, but just curious how much she’s worth. I have an 8 year old registered PHBA/AQHA mare. 15’3. Has over 300 points in the amateur division of PHBA, 116 youth PHBA points, was the reserve novice amateur high point horse in the nation last year, with 6 national top tens, has 3 ROM’s (all this is in PHBA not AQHA) Shown in showmanship, hunter in hand, hunter under saddle, equitation, and horsemanship. Could do pleasure, but moves prettier when she’s moved out (gets tight through shoulders when she goes that slow…she can CREEP, but she doesn’t like doing it). Flashy hunter under saddle horse.[/QUOTE]
A horse that good has a trainer behind it, I would say, so what does your trainer tells you?
They know what the score is, what horses are for sale and why and what the asking price is and what the real price should be and who would be looking at those.
The better the horse, the higher the price, the smaller the pool of interested buyers.
Granted, there are not that many horses out there very good and very proven, but there are not many buyers with the deep pockets for those horses either.
One way to get a good appraisal on horses at the top is to insure them.
Insurance companies have the numbers to price horse’s real value.
When you get to the national level, there is really a wide variety in price anywhere from 5 figures to 6 figures.
“Price” is just a number that a buyer is willing to pay.
Not necessarily the same number that the horse is worth … one way or the other. I’ve seen horses that weren’t worth that much go for a higher price b/c the buyer was willing to pay. And I’ve seen horses that were worth more, go for a lower price.
we had a similar western pleasure/hunter Morgan mare that was 14.1 and a 1/2 so could go open pony classes… agree with the low 6 high 5 price.
Grand parents with deep pockets kind of like to see darling dear grand children winning national championships before they die
I should have put this in the original post, but she’s not a youth horse, so that does decrease value. I got her as a three year old when I was sixteen and started showing at the PHBA shows when I was seventeen. It would have to be an older, more experienced youth. She’s not a “sit there and let the horse take care of you” horse either.
