Importing my new horse from Europe

[Farosh]

Yeah I mean that’s definitely true that I wouldn’t know about the ones that didn’t make it to the amateur ring.

The one doing the 1.25s was just listed as “has jumped up to 1.30” in the ad and had videos with a professional. It’s like 10 years old so I would think that it would’ve done higher. I’m not suggesting the ad said it was a washed up 1.30m horse but it has not competed higher than that. But maybe it has jumped higher and that was an older ad though you definitely could be right.

Edit: I looked up the horses FEI and yeah it only goes to 1.30m until very close to the time of import. And yes it’s very amateur friendly jumping around the 1.25s with a very bad rider lol.

[Tini_Sea_Soldier1]

Honestly, it’s only worth what it’s going to do over here once it lands. Importing can be great. Importing can also be a HUGE crapshoot. I’ve seen horses look like FEI 5* horses on videos overseas and come over here and be complete cowards. I’ve seen horses be fireballs over there and come over here and be duds… and vice versa. Not to mention, the Euros and Brits don’t always jump the same stuff as us here. So from a hunter perspective, unless it’s been out hunting… it may not love the idea of fill if it’s just been jumped over bright sticks and nothing else.
Until you or someone else sits on it and sees how much flatwork it knows and how much it jumps you out of the tack, it’s also very hard to determine if it’s a perfect eq horse. Going to need a very flat jump to make the rider look effortless over the 3’6.
The travel itself can screw up some of them also. So I would think that you buy it based off of potential but you manage your own expectations once it gets here as to whether or not it is truly a 3 ring horse. Those are still tough to come by and hard to determine off of video clips without the added stress of the American show landscape.