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Post by horseguy on Dec 31, 2016 15:44:26 GMT
This is a 6 year old gelding.
The text of the CL post reads:
Paint gelding, 6 years old, 15hands. Good on trails and in traffic. Good husband or wife horse. Also, good with all barn manners, loads and travels well.
By the vegetation in the picture you can see how long he has been for sale. They relist him every 2 weeks. So, I wrote this week asking for a video more info and got this:
Very good on trails, granddaughter learned to canter on him, doesn't like ring work. Just stops, won't move. No video
It was sent from an i phone and no video? This is so typical of this area. Did I tell you he was "good on trails"? I suspect they bought him, he learned how to follow another horse into a trailer and down a trail and that's the extent of his "training". I believe we are talking about years of negative training to undo here. In a winter auction around central PA there are so many of these "follower" horses for sale now. They sell for $350 to $600. The seller said they are pretty firm at $1,500. The horse was skinny in the warm weather picture. I wonder what he looks like now.  His stall, kind of windy these days. It got below freezing last night with wind. |
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Post by rideanotherday on Jan 4, 2017 12:02:42 GMT
Normally, I prefer to see "fit" horses. This horse is lightweight, even for summer. Winter will be hard on him without some fat to help. Poor guy. Has a relatively soft "look", which is probably why he got along alright as a trail horse.
People just suck.
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Post by horseguy on Jan 4, 2017 15:15:06 GMT
Normally, I prefer to see "fit" horses. This horse is lightweight, even for summer. Winter will be hard on him without some fat to help. Poor guy. Has a relatively soft "look", which is probably why he got along alright as a trail horse. People just suck.
I think the seller is a "flipper". They buy horses cheap at auction, don't feed them much and try to make some money. It's just about the money for this type.
There have always been the low end horse dealers. I have know them all my life, even liked a few. Years ago these get-a-cheap-horse dealers used to do some improving, get the horses more readable, put some weight on them, etc. Now it seems they just throw them in a pen and wait for an unknowing buyer who can't afford much more.
I think one thing that has helped these dealers is how the culture now has the instant google expert syndrome. Pre-google people who knew nothing about horses and wanted one would ask a friend who knew something about horses to help them. Now there prevailing idea is "I'm an expert", all I have to do is google it. So, if I'm a low end horse flipper, why bother improving the horse?
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Post by rideanotherday on Jan 4, 2017 15:44:00 GMT
I used to "flip" horses. I can honestly say they always left in better shape than when they got to me.
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