Recommendation for a reputable sales barn in the “VA or north” part of the East coast? Potentially someone who both does show horses and also clients looking for more of a foxhunting type? Best case scenario would be someone willing to take the horse on consignment and not charge board. MUST be a place that will keep the horse ridden/in a program. Horse is fit and ready to go now, I think just doesn’t prefer the job I was hoping to have him do. Recommendations appreciated. Thanks!
Cross posted.
He name has come up a couple times. Thank you
I’m in the heart of SE Pa hunt country. Have hand people get on to me about the same arrangement. None of them were realistic with the money they wanted for the horse to me. In relation to what my time, expertise, expenses and contacts are worth. Esp with horses that had limited to no hunting experience.
I have no idea what you want for the horse. Just saying to keep this in mind. IMO if the seller thinks the horse is worth $8,000 it may only be worth a “wholesale” price of $4,000 at best to me. That’s assuming it will be, is worth $8,000.
I know a number of good hunt horse brokers. None that would take a horse on this arrangement unless it had a very attractive wholesale price on it.
The horse hunted for 2 years in Aiken. Hunted in Ireland before being imported as well
Sarah Greenway with Levremont Farm has sold quite a few foxhunting horses lately and they seem to get moved along relatively quickly. She can be found on Facebook and has a farm website.
Spoke with her. She was lovely. Seems like, due to the weather and lack of an indoor, that it just doesn’t make sense to go with her in the middle of winter.
She has a covered arena, but not an indoor.
I worry about that in VA in the winter 
and apparently nobody has been hunting much due to the weather :(
A member of our hunt bought a horse from her 3 years ago and had it shipped back to the Midwest. He is the best hunt horse. I was very impressed.
Usually winter isn’t so bad…as March hits it gets questionable due to footing. This year has been atrocious!!! We have had a few hunts that have been on horseback since the beginning of December, but it seems most have been foot hunting or canceled. Due to a bum foot, I can’t go out foot hunting, but can ride all day long. One of our Pro Whips posted that she logged 16 miles on foot on one of those days. The huntsman posted for his birthday hunt they went 5 1/2 hours on foot. My bum foot can barely handle one mile without a break.
Best of luck moving your horse!
You’re fine in VA with a covered arena. It’s the footing in an outdoor that is an issue in the winter here. It doesn’t get nasty enough for anyone t(hat I know of) to heat their indoor. With no sun light to warm things up and no insulation; I find them to be colder than riding outdoors. I sometimes ride at a very nice dressage barn that has a covered arena with glass on the North facing wall. It’s amazing. I’ve been in there on days with 50mph wind gusts and the mirrors undulating slightly is the only thing that happens. Even the PG County Equestrian Center in MD has a covered arena and not an indoor. They held league finals there last winter. It was perfectly fine.
OP tried to send you a PM, your box is apparently full?
Since moving to the new forum I can’t receive PMs. I’ve asked COTH for help and apparently they cannot fix the problem so I’ve given up. My email is vxf111 @ yahoo.com
We just bought a horse from Sarah Greenway. Very good experience. Her arena should be fine under almost any conditions you see. Ground conditions for hunting have been subpar throughout the area. Sarah events and rides with Kim Severson so provides her horses with an educated ride and can also sell to that world as well as the hunt world.
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