I wasn’t planning on selling him but since my filly has already found a home someone inquired on my full sibling colt. When I look up Thoroughbred sales to compare prices are all over the board! I see $500-$20,000! How do you know where to realistically price a weanling? He will be JC and USEF registered before he leaves my farm. His pedigree: http://www.pedigreequery.com/machiato+g
It’s one of those Do I want to sell? No. Should I sell? Yes. 
He has zero value as a race horse in my opinion. Hopefully he has show horse qualities.
Sorry, I should have clarified. My purpose for him was not the track. 
I’m just not seeing how people are differentiating between a $500 or $5,000 foal? I’ve tried to look up others by pedigree but that doesn’t help. The prices are still everywhere. It’s one thing when I have/want to sell a horse, but I wasn’t prepared for an inquiry on a non-advertised horse.
If you will sell but don’t want to sell then set the price where YOU won’t cry too hard to see them leave and negotiate from there. So if you are happy with $1500, then so be it, if you are happy with $5000 (and they pay it) then hey - it’s 5K, 1 less mouth to feed, and you get to watch him grow up on someone else’s bank account. And repeat the cross for yourself again you want to.
We did that this year with the full sibling to this filly:
http://www.pedigreequery.com/shelbys+lil+secret (except make it a 2011 colt - still unnamed as of yet).
* Lets just say that AFTER I set the price the guy jumped so quick on it, that I caught myself thinking I should have gone higher. Now as a coming 6 month old I am wishing I hadn't set a price on him..... I won't cry to bank the final check on him (final payment at 6 months), but we are thinking we may have just sold a really nice horse that should have headed into the show ring for ourselves. (can't repeat the breeding as we lost the mare to colic last month)how old was the full sibling and what did it sell for? That is where I would start at determining the value. Is he bigger,better,prettier ? Breeding is nothing special to me so I would just move him along… but will you benefit if the buyer shows him? like do you own the stallion or mare? Selling will save you the trouble of raising,training,competing… and the expense + time
plus stallion 15.3 + mare15.2 = long wait to get a small junior hunter
I would sell the weanling and spend the money getting your stallion trained and shown… him having a show record will benefit you more than waiting years to show the weanling
until he’s in the show ring he’s worth very little IMO.
What did his parents do? Were they just race horses? If they were sucessful sport horses then you have a better shot at selling him.
People pay very little for OTTBs and those are already old enough to ride.
His pedigree can be found all over CANTER.
So unless you have some sort of backing that shows he’s going to make an awesome sport horse then you might be best to keep him for yourself.
If someone actually inquires about him I would price him at an amount that would not lose money.
mare care + stud fee = blank.
He’s probably very very nice. He’s got a nice pedigree. :yes:
Thanks guys. I think I’m just going to keep him for myself. Sire was gelded so there’s no option to make another of him if I do sell him. He’s a flashy fellow and is bred perfectly for what I want to do. Last thing I want to do is regret letting him go. I think I just needed to hear from others in order to form an opinion.
Then there is your answer. I wish I had been able to see 4 months into the future when we took the deposit on my colt. . . I would have opted to keep him. Good luck with him!
That’s great if you have a prospective buyer already, but if you can’t come up with a (reasonable) price that would make you comfortable letting him go, you have your answer
Generally, I believe it’s harder to sell any babies right now - even though we are going to market our weanling (that was just top colt at his AHS inspection!), we count on keeping all of our hanoverian foals until they are 3-5 y.o. and well started.
