what do you think about them? i think there getting much better, desent 2yr olds are now going for a lot more, still not great though. someone i no just advertised their 3yr old nothing special not done any thing just friendly for £1000! what do you all think?

i wouldnt pay that for a 3yr old Newforest, but then im a tight ass :P. More like half that tbh or less if it hasnt done anything at all

Well Alfie is worth £19700 as a 2yo because he is perfection in a ponys body.



My Cinquicento is soooo sexy, i wonder how long till i crash it.

If its nothing special then thats a crazy price! You can pick up a bog standard 4yo NF broken in for less than that!



My Cinquicento is soooo sexy, i wonder how long till i crash it.

prices are now at the stage that you would not get a broken 4yrold for it. but you would certainly get a 4yr old well handled been to shows ect.

do you think prices are going down cuza everyone having no money?

It depends on how much work / training has been invested in the pony, it's size, how clean it is from a vetting point of view, and how many are on the market at any particular time. Prices seem to vary enormously still.

Even at the sales on Thursday, for the short time I was there, prices for unbroken 2 year olds varied quite a lot from under £100 to well over £400. I guess if you bought a pony for nearer the top end, then invested a year to 18 months handling, backing, giving it experience, paying for its keep etc, asking £1,000 would not seem unreasonable.

For those who are not experienced or confident enough to back a pony (like me) and/or don't have the time or facilities to do it, I would expect to pay a higher price in recognition of the fact that someone else had committed time, effort and money to do it - and do it well.

My prediction is that NF prices will hold steady as they continue to become more popular amongst small adults and people move from bigger horses which cost more to keep.

But then again, what do I know?!?!?!

right, so would you pay £1000 for a 13.2h 2yr old done nothing just a bit handled? i thinks thats rediculous!

I think in some parts of the country this wouldn't be an excessive price. Perhaps not in the Forest area though! When I bought Tibs (3yo 840gns at Beaulieu Rd), I could have sold her on straight away for around £1500.

But I wouldn't have paid more than around 450-500gns for a gelding.

I Paid 600gns for my grey filly,i think she worth it.Someone has done some handling on her,not much but some.

Ive already had a few people ask would i sale her.NOPE
Mind you she also going to be on the top end for height so worth it


smile eeyore

i think a lot of nf ponies sell for a lot more in the rest of the country, and a lot of other pony breeds sell for this much so i dont think its unreasonable, but having said that as i know you can get them a hell of a lot cheaper at the sales i wouldnt pay a loads now. but i think they should sell for more as they are good ponies.

bear in mind for someone to come down to the new forest from where i live would cost about £100 in diesel or about £250 to hire a box (and im only 3 1/2 hours away), so some people would be happier to pay more for one closer

i think they are still too cheap. The quality of the ponies in general is rising so why shouldnt the price?

I was looking for a big 3or4yold 14hh+ last year for 6months before i found Biggles. from prices ranging from a grand to 4k!!
I paid 2k and would not have got another pony of his type for less - i looked for long enough, and still look daily for ponies of his type!!


i generally buy things as weanlings though, even those prices can reach a grand, and if the ponies nice enough, well deserved!! (although i've never paid that much!)

The prices in the adverts on NFED speak for themselves I think.. they can't all be wrong. There are NF's 2 years old for £1000 or so, a 3 year old admittedly shown for £3250! and even a cob x NF on there for £950.



Hugs, Jane and the boys.

a 2yo should only be a grand if its really something special! Eg- breeding standard colt or one with very impressive competition blood lines and high show potential



My Cinquicento is soooo sexy, i wonder how long till i crash it.

their certainly on the up at last, but unfortunatly no- one can afford any thing. is that going to send them back down?

As they say,a horse is worth as much as someone is willing to pay


smile eeyore

I agree shaz.. that and the fact that people seldom pay the full asking price especially for horses.. and most say ONO so the sellers know that.

Hugs, Jane and the boys.

If you look at the ones for sale on the breed society website they are really good prices - I don't think I could afford to buy Homey now if he was for sale. Prices seem to have whizzed up.

My friend paid £2000 for her 2yr old NF gelding. She phoned me to see what I thought and I said I thought it was too much, but by then she'd bought him anyway.
BUT she loves him to bits and wouldn't change him for anything. I certainly wouldn't pay that much and it just goes to show that a horse is worth as much as an individual is willing to pay.

but if she hadnt payed it shed have never loved him! id never ever ever pay that much! mine are worth what their worth not how much someone will pay

my friend bought a 2 yr old forester for £300.00 bargin!

I bought Spark as a 3yo for 300 quid!
Julie was 80 quid as a weanling...

Think I got lucky there?

Meta

very lucky, unless they was half dead!

The Pony Promotion Group are working really hard to raise the publics understanding of how versatile and brillient the foresters are, which will help raise the value of them.

If you have a cheap source of ponies, best to keep quite about it and make the most of it, not try to make everyone else feel they are paying too much.
I for one am really pleased to see good money being paid for the ponies, so far the credit crunch does not seem to have too much of an impact on horse prices and sales, they are still going well on the site. We will see how Beaulieu Road goes tomorrow, and keep fingers crossed

Not talking forest bred here..
If you wanna breed something that has had the best possible start in life..ie a mare regularly wormed and given adequate nutrition during pregnancy, then the foal started well and regularly wormed, feet trimmed, ect. you are hardly going to want to give it away.

I can never understand why some people are happy to pay loads for their saddles, rugs, trailers ect, as then they feel they are getting the best available, but haggle and pay the least possible for the most important item...the actual horse!!


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i dont pay loadz for anything and i like to get the most use out of it i can! my saddles got a whole in it. my work shoes have no bottoms!

problem is people dont like to accept that they are worth more than they used to be... the amount of people i hear say they just want a cheap pony so are of to get one at the sales. Looking at other breeds, i dont know anouther breed that go this cheap, Connemaras demand a very high price, over £2000 from a weanling up... very lucky and a good investment if you can find one cheaper and yet..... breeding as it is today, most people believed my new forest to be a connemara ... thats how different they are.

New forests are among the top in most activities in kids ponies - alot of the ja ponies are new forest bred but the owners wouldnt admit it because of peoples ignorance of it being the poor persons pony and therefore not paying the well desrved asking price in the thousands. NOT quite as classy as the connie or welsh .

I just think in general people just follow people - i dont think any yearling connie is worth £2000 but if i had one i would advertise at that price a severyone else does and as i know from experience - you put it in cheaper and no one will call thinking there is something wrong with it -

i think they should fetch similar prices to other breeds as they are just as good.

I know a dealer who regularly sell 14.2 4/5yr old irish cobs (un registered and mix of breeds) for 3500-5000 which have been hunting in ireland for a year and started a bit of schooling and jumping. she has a really good rep and people que up to buy her horses. i would rather a registered new forest than a hairy cob so i dont see why they are not more sought after.

So much also depends on location .I am sure my highland would have found a new home by now in a different area. Several enquiries but long way away!Still Dizzy is going to turn her into a star!Jumping is her forte.

indeed i am, ELLIE is great shes sooo much fun!



My Cinquicento is soooo sexy, i wonder how long till i crash it.

hi im new to the group
i bought my yearling filly for £450 she has had small amount done with her but not a lot, she was handled but not very much i think £450 was not a bad price and the women had bought her from the pony sales so how much did she pay there??she was also going for a low price as she was only registered part bred even thought she is full new forest somewhere along the line someone wasnt registered and if i want her put as full bred i have to get DNA test!! i would defenitly buy another New Forest they are great breeds but i wouldnt pay over £1000 for a 2year old