Quality Of Horses For Sale

So this post is very much going to resemble and Fugly Horse Of The Day (for those who don't read that blog go have a look it's great )

Over the past 2 months I have been watching the online horse ads in our area through Kijiji and Equestrian Connection and a few other horse sites. The amount of crappy horses priced too high just kills me!

I can get a 2 year old quarter horse that is trained to the T, in other words the owners worked their poor little filly or colts butts off before they had even developed a butt to be worked off! These horses DO NOT LAST, sure if your looking for a show horse for the next two years and then want to breed for the next 15 this horse may be perfect for you. **(edited out due to over use of bad wording)**. Honestly do we make children run marathons? Do we force little children to learn high tec dancing maneuvers, to practice it again and again until it is perfect? We don't! That's because they aren't ready! Not physically ready! We don't want the children to limp around when they hit their early teens. Why don't we apply the same ideas to the horses we raise?

You think I'm picking on the western world, and guess what I am. (Edited in, I am not forgetting about all the other disciplines who over work young horses as well, for now yes lets just talk about western). The racing world is no better but they get enough attention. A horse can naturally run in a straight line with a teenie rider on their back without a lot of damage. There are plenty of horses that come off the track and can still move and be ridden for years to come. Running is a natural thing, spinning, doing sliding stops, flying lead changes, extreme collection, is that natural? I don't think so.

Alright back to what I was supposed to be blogging about. The quality of horses, these young horses that are "trained to the max" are priced high and no doubt they'll get their asking price. In my opinion they shouldn't they should get what a horse that age is worth which is around 1000, maybe. The same is happening for other breeds though, plenty of ladies selling their horse to go to college, or to have more money when they get married. These horses are crap. I'm sorry but seriously almost every one of them has a huge conformational fault, no show history, and is not suitable for the type of riding they are advertising it for. A horse that is naturally on his forehand, severely under weight, and has seen a few jumps is not a jumper. Perhaps when it learns to carry its self it'll make it to the low level jumping. This particular horse is advertised for $4000. He is nothing special, there are many green broke skinny thoroughbreds who go for a few hundred dollars to meat each week, and these ones may actually have decent conformation!

There is my blog for the week, I think in pony club this week we are going to look at all the horses online and figure why you would and why you would not buy the animal. Hopefully I can inspire a generation of horse people who will breed and train for quality and not just for substance.

There we go.