My friend bought a young, green gaited horse; a Rocky I think, sight unseen from somewhere in the midwest. Talked extensively with the seller, saw video, and took a chance. Horse turned out to be the perfect horse for her. Sweet, great brain, well established gait, and loves an adventure on the trails.
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Pryme, where are you when I need a buyer. I live in an area not so hot on show horses, and being a little guy peon of the industry, I ALWAYS have young, good sized, floating HUS QHs that jump in that range. But NO ONE wants to buy young and unstarted. Iāve been lucky in the last 2.5 months to sell two very nice started horses at my trainerās; one of which is staying in her program. But thatās the sucky part: started. That means as the breeder, who has already taken substantial risk getting a horse to that point, is footing the training bill for a while too. Those were high end green prospects, and only one of them required FB ads (which were painful to deal with). Now that under 10k range you speak of? Canāt get a single person to bite. Like seriously, nothing wrong with the horse but heāll be best suited for a fancy weekend horse. I imagine Iāll be putting some money in to training him too to get him sold eye roll
I am always looking for a nice prospect! Do you mind PMing me what you have? Iāll send you a message.
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Wow, that person went all out with the details. 
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And itās a sellers market so that horse will be sold in a week despite the ad, and my snarky comment on it 
OH FB MAKES ME CRAZY!
Iām going to Ocala in a few weeks to show and shop horses, so I posted an ad that very specifically said
Iām going to Ocala to show, cannot get away to WEF. This is the week i will be there
I need a large pony
I need a small junior
both need to ready to show and safe for kids
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How about a medium pony?
I have what you need in Wellington, Maryland, New York, Ohio
I have a 17.2 junior
I have an green Tb
Do people not know how to read? Ugh
FWIW, I have never actually found what Iām looking for either on online websites, or via social mediaā¦the best horses seem to never have to get there
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Iāll take an unstarted nice horse any day. Letās chat.
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Thanks yāall. I didnāt mean to start a sales post. So mods, please donāt throw me in jail. Iāll PM yāall when I have a moment.
Oh yeah. I would add this recommendation on every site where horses are sold, seriously.
Another one of my selling pet peeves but this is mostly seen on FB ads: pictures of the horse with some kind of leg wrap on (polos, specifically- what are you hiding under there?) and all the riding videos are of the horse strapped down with training aids like draw reins and the like. Donāt get me wrong I have nothing against tools however if the horse needs them to look āniceā or at his best there is something missing there and as a potential buyer, I am not impressed.
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This drives me NUTS. I posted an ISO with a specific geographic location driving distance limit, budget, and said it must be at least w/t/c and preferably going o/f. The requirements werenāt crazy. I got comments from people on the other side of the country. I got a message saying someone had my āunicornā - it was double my budget and unbroke.
I donāt mind when someone messages a horse that mostly meets criteria but not perfectly (slightly further, slightly older/younger) because you never know! But the comments/messages of horses that obviously are not what the poster is seeking are frustrating.
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Also unnecessary: āglamour shotsā that donāt actually show the horses whole body and conformation
Pictures of the so-called unicorn out in a paddock or pasture complete with video of it running in the paddock, Unless itās an unhandled foal, donāt show me that. Even a young horse that has never been backed can be led at a walk and trot. Show me the baby lungingā¦the TB rescues actually do a good job with that
Iām helping a friend horse shop. Found what she thought was her āperfectā horse. He spectacularly failed the vetting today. Horse shopping is misery.
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I had to look it up. Loved your comment
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Seller not amusedā¦ 
No she was not LOL
I cannot stand slow motion videoing or music. Please donāt include music. Itās super distracting! Iāve seen videos of horses with both plus āartsyā head shots of the horseās head and eyes. Greatā¦ the horse has eyes. I want photos of the horseās conformation, videos of walk, trot, canter both ways, and a couple of jumping videos (either available or by request) on or off property.
No slow-mo, music, creative shots, or videos of the person braiding (in slow moā¦whyyyy?)!
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The only thing worse than a video with music is a slideshow with music. This also came across =)
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It finally happened!!!
There was a video on Facebook tonight for a horse for sale and the video 100% conformed to the guidelines I mentioned above!!! It was 42 seconds long and shows the horse off very well.
So as to not look like a sales ad, and I honestly just saw the horse at a show and am not affiliated with it in any way, I shared the video on my FB feed tonight.
So if you go to my feed, which is public, you can see it.
Em
