You would be lucky to get $500 for the green grey mare. My friend has a lovely 14.1 grey Arab/welsh cross, mid teens and a great little all-rounder, flipping amazing on trails and she is still sitting in her barn at $800.00.
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My daughters horse is 14 hands, a grade appaloosa cross, who was trained and shown in barrel racing/ gaming. She is pretty well unflappable on trails, a horse you can put any level of rider on and she will take care of them.
She is a pretty mover, has good conformation and has an excellent mind .
We bought her when she was 8 years old–she is now 15.
I offered $800 ( she was asking $1000.) They took it. The horse market hasn’t changed that much in 7 years.
What exactly can your horse do under saddle? You can price her at whatever you want hoping for that once in a lifetime " fool" who will pay it. Or you can price her according to her skills and find her a good home with hopefully the right people.
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As someone who sells horses regularly, I am offended that the OP would consider any buyer a sucker and deliberately want to make sales to someone who is naive with more money than sense. That’s exactly the type of predatory and crooked behavior that gives horse selling a bad name.
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You would be better off putting some training on her. See how safe she is and what her mind is like. Otherwise
around here she would be Free To Good Home.
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One problem with selling a horse at a price far over its fair worth is that if the buyer wants to sell the horse down the road, they’ll likely not want to sell at a much lower price than they paid. This could be bad news for the horse if the buyer gets frustrated and just wants to be done with horses.
To boost your pony’s value, I’d suggest versatility–maybe teaching it to drive, working trail obstacles, etc. That might expand your buyer’s market 
look around locally and see what is for sale and for what prices. adjust up or down based on relative temperament, soundness and training.
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I worked for a lady who owned Arabs. They were all registered, out of great bloodlines. She was getting out of the breeding business (she had been in it since the 70s) because Arabians are not really sought out horses anymore.
I saw an Arab for sale (unregistered), dead broke, trail safe, and not even in his teens for $800. He sold in 48 hours. There is another Arab/QH cross that is broke, jumps, and packs 5 year olds on the trail. He has been for sale for months at $2200.
I like the idea of compare prices in your area. Dreamhorse.com is fun to look at anyways.
Same, in my area you can find a lot of horses at a similar place in training/breeding for less than $1k. Search Craigslist in your area to know what is available in your area and go from there.
Also - lemon law applies to horses where I live. Just because you swindle/coax/etc someone out of $15k for a green unreg’ed horse doesn’t mean you won’t get sued for it later 
uh oh… are we feeding a troll?
Thread was from February guys. So OP, what happened?
it literally never occurs to me to check dates after someone else bumps LOL
OP, any updates?
I get really mad at myself when I don’t notice the original date of the post. That said, for the sake of others, I’d recommend the OP look into whether the horse can be registered. The value is likely under $1k currently.
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WHERE???
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I wish I could like this more than once.
Was reading this thread and wanted to know this too! :lol: Although pony likely has sold by now, since that post was in Feb…
