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Location: Idaho | What are broke ponies going for these day? Competition ponies? Curious what people out there are paying for them and what are they doing for that price? Thanks! |
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| A good pony is worth its weight in gold.... honestly. We have a 7k offer down on a pony for when their daughter outgrows him, for my little sister. He will go their speed, no nonsense, and has some speed if his rider is ready for it. He wins all the PeeWee classes at the weekend 4Ds and open shows, he even runs flags, poles, keyhole, etc. Plus he's only 10, so he's still young enough to pass onto someone else. He will show halter/showmanship, pleasure classes, costume, he is a very sensible pony who just lets anyone do anything on him with very little fuss.
Then we have a shetland at the old barn I used to ride at who wouldn't be sold for a million dollars. He could run a smoking pole pattern a few years back, He's in his late 30s/early 40s now. Freaking OLD pony and still runs barrels for kids, just a bit slower now.
ETA: That second one was NOT a beginner pony, he was a hot head, rearing to go and you better hang on for the ride. His rider made him that way, but boy could he get it done. He ran him against barrel horses and could place 2D usually.
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Location: Idaho | Great! Thanks :) |
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Location: Kansas | I couldn't imagine spending $7,000 for a pony, but that's just me. We have one right now, she is kid broke (even though she really doesn't get rode), if she were to be sold....she would be priced at $700. |
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 Coyote Country Queen
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| In our area, ponies aren't worth that much based on what I've seen advertised. I think it also depends on the size of the pony. The smaller ponies that really only a little kid can ride I would agree with the $700 range on the higher end. I think we gave a little less than that for one, and our other pony we traded for a round bale of alfalfa. The ponies that are medium sized to a little bigger seem to be priced a little higher, but the high end of those that I've seen advertised are in the $2,500 range. |
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| Where is the best place to advertise one for sale? Are there any Facebook sites especially for ponies? |
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| I wish I lived where you all do! When I was in the market for a pony I had a $4,000 budget and could not find what I was looking for!
We paid $1,200 for a pony that was sold by lien sale because the guy didn't pay his board bill for 2 years. The pony had been sitting for 2 years and no one knew anything about her. Some people my sister knew seemed to think that she was one their son had rode. She mouthed around 7 years old which would be about the same age as the pony the boy rode and due to her conformation and coloring she's pretty unforgettable so we took a shot at her.
My daughter is 4 and can ride this pony out on the trail by herself, at rodeos, barrel races, ropings and gather cows in the field. She is patterned on barrels and poles, 13 hands even and built like a brick house. She can ride her bareback in a halter and the pony only goes as fast as you make her. At the first race I took her to we turned down $6K.
Here ponies that are leadline only are selling for $900 to $1,500 which seems ludicrous to me. Ponies that can be rode by them selves but really don't know anything but how to rein, no leads or patterns, $1,200 to $2,500 and if the pony knows anything in the arena it jumps to $4,000 to what ever one is willing to pay. Of course the smaller ponies and minis tend to be on the cheaper side of those figures and the better built usable sized pony higher.
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Coyote Country Queen
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| I do agree with a higher value on a bigger pony that is broke to a job. If they can be roped on, finished on barrels, poles, etc. The problem I've seen with so many ponies is that they really aren't that broke. Usually they are kid broke, as in a kid has done all of the work! But it would seem reasonable to price a larger, finished pony about the same as a horse of the same level, so that $4,000+ price range doesn't seem that out of line. |
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Miracle in the Making
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| i saw marie turn down 25k plus seriously for little red a 49 3/4 in pony in jackson ms ask linsdey banks talmadme mike green anyone from the soth about her and chad sheppard
we paid 2800 in the 80 for ahab best money spent he taught my kid to ride then wnt on to run poles consisantly 20 21 in ga we slod him to 2 girls in tx for 2800
they won numerous saddles and trailers on him in the 90
but they don/t have the ponies now that was back in 80 and 90
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | We sold one recently for $1500. She wasn't super competitive. But she was patterned in gymkhana events, barrels, poles, etc. Was great on trails. Could easily be handled by kids. Nice little thing. |
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Queen Bean of Ponyland
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Location: WYOMING | English ponies can go for lots. Barrel and just broke ponies not so much. I went in the pony biz hard for a few years... Learned a few things...
People bring the neighorhood to test ride pony for hrs to make SURE 7463 kids can ride it safetly.
People do NOT pay lots for MOST super nice broke and barrel ponies.
Its more work making a safe barrel pony than it is making an open horse and the profit magrin is WAY better making open horses.
Unbroke ponies can buck your ass off harder than any horse!!!
I can go on but you get the idea...
So the most I sold a VERY nice safe barrel pony for was $1500 plus she was aqha registered and 13h.
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Location: MI | Wish I lived by some of ya'll. Been trying to sell a really nice pony that just ran 2nd in poles against the big horses. Tough to sell here. |
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  Color My World
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Location: My perfect world bubble | Such a shame there's not more of a market for well broke western ponies. Like someone stated - English ponies go for a lot of $$!! Lots are leased because a.) the purchase price is so high and b.) people don't want to let them go! We paid in the low 5 figures for my 7 yr old daughter's 13.2H pony and that's because he's young (5) and doesn't have a record. He will be priced in the mid 5 figures when we go to sell him in 3-4 years. He's a doll and worth his weight in gold! If you have a nice one you can put a lead change on that is super safe and will jump even small fences you open up a lot of doors with regards to selling and price.
 
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Location: ND | I was the photographer at one of the local sales a few weeks ago. Pony prices varied from next to nothing to high. A really pretty paint pony with tons of ranch miles with kids brought $6000. While mini's broke to ride (not leadline pony's) brought $200-$600. |
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 My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | Oh my he's a doll. Reminds me of a half pony half quarter horse that was the mount I was allowed to use when I first started trail riding. He was small, and I'm 5 ft 9 in and not skinny---we weren't the prettiest pair on the mountain to say the least!! But he was SO surefooted and careful with me. Within a few weekend trips I wasn't afraid to tackle anything the other riders did---he could jump downed trees and small creeks like a big cross-country horse. I was in love, and wanted him. But they wouldn't sell him. After I had a herd of 5, I had a friend call me and ask about Brownie---like was he a good horse, would I trust him with a young hesitant rider, would I buy him. I told her oh yes to all questions. (As much as I like this friend, I almost started a bidding war to get him! But I didn't need him, and I knew he'd have a good home with her. She was even kind enough to bring him to a big barrel run for the weekend with her daughter's barrel mare for me to just ride around the grounds. I feel in love again!!) She paid 1200 for him, and has already been offered considerably more; I felt like 1200 was an unbelievable bargain knowing all I did about the horse. He's one I kinda think is worth his weight in gold---he was the number one horse at a therapeutic riding association on top of all his other assets. . . |
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| I live in MN and the ponies go for A LOT here! I know of two nice barrel ponies that went for 10K, one that went for 9K (shetland) and didn't even know all of the events, and their usually priced $1500 and above here just for average ponies. I have a 4yr old pony right now I'm asking $2,500 for and he's worth every penny, he's safe, sound, and smaller adults can ride him! Must just be a good market up here with how much WSCA stuff people do. |
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Location: Sanderson, TX | BandWranch - 2015-10-09 6:31 PM Wish I lived by some of ya'll. Been trying to sell a really nice pony that just ran 2nd in poles against the big horses. Tough to sell here. Come visit for the pony race next year.
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| A pony that can show eventing (dressage, stadium and cross-country) are worth mid to high- 5 figures. Hunter ponies are even more.... One of the advantages to raising smaller QH's is that they can go both western and english and we get decent money for ours. Even if you are looking for a pony to go western, don't discount looking at the english ponies - you can sometimes pick them up very reasonably if they aren't working out in the desired discipline. Just like reiners or cutters that aren't pro-level make some nice barrel horses. |
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