Back to the west coast ! Or closer to., While Morgans are phenomenal horses UVM IS a little far from the person who started this thread
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I think Iāve seen his ad-- heās CUTE. Thereās also an ad for a cute cob x mare in ORāI was helping my dad look for a short horse in the PNW/ID/MT and couldnāt help expanding the search to include hairy ponies who might drive (in case my dad loses interest and Iām stuck with the critter). We were able to find a fair amount of (probably) Grandpa-safe, short, 8-15 yo, WTC horses that can go down a trail in our mid four figure budgetā¦BUT my dad doesnāt need a horse with an 8 walk. (Sadly, he also didnāt want a hairy horse who drives, so we ended up with a QH who packs and hobbles instead).
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I havenāt seen the cob cross mare. Itās rare that I would miss a cob! Iāve owned two. 
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I think she was on dream horseā¦or maybe one of the many NW pony pages on FB I canāt stop checkingā¦
All of those Facebook groups are overwhelming!
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True story.
And they say that W Coast prices are highā¦I bought a 2 yr old sight unseen (from a 30 sec youtube video) and had it shipped to the east coast. The breeder found a shipper who was headed east to pick up a horse with an empty trailer. She put the horse in the trailer and got a deal on shipping for about half the price I had been quoted. People put up mental barriers and limit their options.
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the last one we bought the breeder brought him with her to Nationals for not extra charge We took possession of him there
my problem is the breeder has some foals each year that sure would be nice additions
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Neither here nor there, but I was recently considering the cutest dressage QH from Hancock lines
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Itās pure luck to be able to have a horse delivered for little cost. Anyone who has shipped in the last few years knows shipping fees are very expensive. Both a friend and I have had horses shipped in the last few years. It was not cheap. I paid $1500 to have a horse shipped from six hours away. Factor in a pre-purchase and that adds quite a bit to the sales price.
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I had to look out of the box to be able to afford my new guy. Bought sight unseen, PPE & shipping alone were 2k. He was an unusual cross, young and unstarted. Has a great brain and will hopefully end up around 16.1.
We are slightly backing him now and heās awesome! Sometimes it pays to take a chance on the unknown.
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Lovely. What out-of-the box breed is he?
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Dam was a WB/TB cross, Sire was a QH.
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At this point I was looking for a good brain, with a trot I could sit. 
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This probably has its own thread somewhere, so Iām sorry for the threadjack. Iām here to support your Shipping-is-Expensive-Unless-Youāre-Crazy-Lucky POV, though.
Shipping should be expensive because the cargo is precious.
And yes, as the sister of a law-abiding, fully insured, DOT registered shipper, prices are all over the map.
Sure, you can still pay $1.50 per loaded mile. Trouble is that company may not be registered or insured, your horse may be in a 12-horse slant for days, or end up in a staging layover for longer, and the company may not even be a company.
From my pov, shopping for shippers on FB has made a mockery of the business.
Sheās based in Maine, so my sisterās nicheās is eastern Canadian crossings. Because of vet inspections and the US sideās sad, ancient computer systems, she has some stories.
Long story short, if youāre being quoted less than $2 per loaded mile ā actually, $2.50 is closer to reality now ā beware.
Statement of Conflict of Interest: I am fully biased here because it annoys me that my careful, conscientious sister must compete with people flying without a net, i.e. happy to move horses without health or ownership paperwork, and whose trailers and trucks are downright dangerous. Enforcement of lading law is spotty, so Iām not super optimistic that properly regulated competition is anywhere on the horizon.
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Super handsome.
Though I might have guessed Connemara cross, his family of origin sounds like a good one.
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Iām not complaining about shipping cost, just reminding people it adds to the total cost of buying a horse. The price I mentioned above was from a high-end shipper. I would not trust a horse to a fly-by-night low cost shipper.
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I thought the sameāthe cute little face and color
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Cosign.
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Yes, itās not worth saving the money, IMO (and Iām not somebody with money to burn). One of the times I imported a pregnant mare, another person whoād also imported a pregnant mare in the same load objected to the quote Iād gotten from an excellent shipper which Iād used before (air ride van, box stall, experienced horsemen drivers, etc.) for the cross-country haul from quarantine.
She found a low-cost shipper with a slant load for her own mare. Saved what was a smallish amount of money, considering the total associated costs of the purchase price of mare, stallion fee, international shipping, quarantine, etc. ā and her mare lost the foal. Perhaps that had nothing to do with the long trailer ride in less comfortable conditions, but what if it did? False economy in that case.
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