Selling Young Stock: Easy or Difficult?
By Liz Cornell
Purchasing a very young, unbroken sport horse prospect has its benefits. Building a solid relation- ship while a youngster grows and develops instills trust and confidence before the serious work begins. And the purchase price for an unbroken prospect is theoretically less than for a horse already going under saddle.
horse later? The assumed benefit to a breeder is that the sooner a young horse sells, the better the profit potential. Therefore, in theory, for both seller and buyer it’s a win-win. After surveying a variety of different North American
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sport horse breeders, it’s clear that the best age to sell depends on the breed, the discipline and the profit goals of the individual breeder. All but one of those we interviewed have been successful selling their unbroken youngsters. Some have sold only the very young, while others have sold unbroken youngsters as well as three-, four- and five-year-olds already performing under saddle.
Five Breeders Participate Edgar Schutte of Rainbow Equus Meadows in California breeds primarily Hanoverians for jump- ing, dressage and eventing and stands numerous stallions. He
rom the breeders’ perspective, is it harder or more diffi- cult to sell horses when they are weanlings to unbro- ken three-year-olds? Or is it preferable to sell a started
is also the president of the American Hanoverian Society. After 27 years of breeding, Edgar currently produces about nine foals a year, but in the past has bred up to 25 foals in one season. Edgar estimates he has bred and sold over 200 young horses, roughly 40 percent of them unbroken wean- lings to three-year-olds. In Kansas, Dianna Orona of Fox Creek Farm breeds
German Riding Ponies (GRP), a breed that’s been growing in popularity for the last ten years. With all of her breed- ing stock imported, she stands six stallions, has a number of up-and-coming young stallion prospects and has a large herd of broodmares. In the Rheinland Pfalz-Saar Internation- al’s (RPSI) 2015 Breeders Guide, Fox Creek Farm was listed as the leading German Riding Pony breeder in the large farm category. In just five years Dianna has sold all of her young stock, all under the age of three, totaling 21 ponies, bred for dressage, jumpers, hunters, eventing and driving. Floridian Gigha Steinman of River Oaks Farm breeds
Edgar Schutte of Rainbow Equus Meadows poses with a Landkoenig / Pablito filly at the AHS inspection.
Friesian Sporthorses, is the breeding director of the Friesian Sporthorse Association (FSA) and currently competes her own FSA stallion Lexington at Grand Prix dressage. Although she primarily breeds for dressage, some of her prospects have landed in other disciplines. She has sold all 17 of her available
PHOTO AT TOP: 2015 filly Kavatina (Aria SE x Rhodium x Jazz) bred by Liz Cornell. (Photo by Ed Haas) Warmbloods Today 61
Courtesy Edgar Schutte
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