Hello
Just curious as I haven’t sold a pony or horse on the H/J market in decades… I’m looking at buying a medium size 11 yo Welsh/tb mare. I’m planning on doing mostly Eventing with her but possibly marketing her as a potential Hunter too in the future. I’m looking at a 3-5 mth turn around sale after I purchase her. Currently she w/t/c (mostly not in a frame), jumps up to 2’9 and hacks out in company but prefers the ring.
Will be potentially selling down in the Ocala area (fingers crossed.)
What are your thoughts on pricing after i put more miles on her as well as showing?
Thanks 
Between $100 and $100,000, depending.
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There’s a lot missing in your description of the pony that will affect price.
Is she a top of the line medium and is she large bodied? Does she have a card or can you get her one? (If she measures as a small large, you’ll be better off marketing her as an eventer.)
Has she ever been shown? Broken her green?
Does she have an auto change?
How fancy a mover is she? Does she go like a hunter or like an eventer? Potential to win or pin in the hack?
Can she make the rated divisions striding?
How easy a ride is she? There’s a range from seeing eye dog to pro ride only, the closer to seeing eye dog, the higher the price.
What’s her form over fences like? Knees to nose? Slaps out a little? Forearm barely horizontal?
Without that information, Midge’s range is as close as anyone can estimate.
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Also you’ll need some Hunter shows under her belt if you plan on selling her as a hunter. Many hunter riders will not look at eventing horses/ponies
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Most importantly with ponies, especially smalls and mediums: can a relatively unskilled child ride the pony over jumps? If you want it to be a resale prospect for hunters, kids are your market, and you have to assume most kids cannot ride the pony like you, an adult, or a pro could. If she is easy, point and shoot, can take a joke, you can add lots of $$$ to her value.
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We need much more info, and probably info you can’t give yet.
For instance, a fugly pony who measures as a small medium, doesn’t place well in the u/s, but will jump anything and is literally a seeing eye dog could still be worth 25k.
A carded large medium who is beautiful and has excellent hack movement, but requires a skilled rider, could have a hard time getting 10k.
A pony with a perfect height card, seeing eye dog disposition, excellent movement, always places? Well you could be sitting on 50-250k, depending on what shows the horse has attended and where you are marketing it.
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Honest question. Is there a market for medium pony eventers? It seems to me to be a very narrow base of buyers, but if the pony can do the hunter job with an EASY lead change and kid-friendly brain, it could be a nice sale with miles on it.
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There is a medium pony in my trainers program who can and has beat all adults on horses in the 2’6" eventing, hack, hunters and came 5th in pony finals. She’s likely a 50k pony
With that resume I would actually expect it to be worth more.
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Yes, but the valuable part of that resume is making it to Pony Finals.
I am not sure how a medium pony beats adults on horses in the hack or in hunters, since they don’t compete together except in the local, unrated divisions.
A medium eventing pony doing Beginner Novice and winning is a 10 - 15K pony, depending on your locale. The real problem with selling it is the market is so small - kids tend to have outgrown medium ponies by the time they’re competent enough to event at BN or N.
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As a parent, the winning part to me is that she does this with a 8-11 year old kids. point and shoot. And yes they do local shows/unrated with the 8 year old pinning against adults. They have also shown at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto. The pony is insane.
@2bayboys you are probably right but she wont ever be for sale.
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Agreed. A point and shoot, safe and kind medium pony of quality is priceless and they tend to never leave the barn, but just be leased or owned by a steady stream of children in the same barn.
However, what makes a pony like that, besides its innate good temperment, is mileage and piling up lots of good experiences. The OP wants to flip her pony prospect in 3 - 5 months. That’s enough to time to get it jumping small courses, MAYBE put a change on and take it to a few local shows. You can’t make up a point and shoot packer in a 3 - 5 month time frame.
ETA: A medium pony, regardless of discipline, is always going to be tough to flip quickly.
You are completely right.
I think there is lots missing from the OP. Like how is this 11 year old, wtc, already jumping 2’9" not already a high valued pony.
No, I’m not, because what I missed and you caught is that the pony is jumping 2’ 9" courses.
So a quick flip is not as unreasonable as I initially thought. BUT the OP mentions nothing length of stride or about changes. Jumping courses without being able to get the step or clean change/100% reliable about landing their lead is not worth a whole lot in hunterville.
I do not take “jumps up to 2’9” to equal does 2’9" courses. Those are two very different things.
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