varkie
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Post by varkie on Dec 25, 2012 12:46:12 GMT 1
The annual shetland sale is a bit different. Problem with it being, I know it's stating the obvious, the location. I would love to have a couple of proper shetland shetlands, but the cost of transport on top of the ponies themselves is prohibitive - plus I'd be taking a gamble on a pony I'd never seen. I think for many, it is the same.
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Post by kafee on Dec 26, 2012 9:32:24 GMT 1
This is the report on the Beaulieu sale: www.salisburyauctioncentre.co.uk/uploads/7/8/2/9/7829616/report_291112.pdfNormally cobs & shetlands make much better money, but even they were low. I also noticed that Reading have stopped doing their once a month general horse sale - not enough actually selling, I should think. Sad sign of the times, with no easy answer at all. Thank you very much for the link, varkie. Interesting reading, I'm surprised that the shetlands make more than the PB NF's. The annual shetland sale is a bit different. Problem with it being, I know it's stating the obvious, the location. I would love to have a couple of proper shetland shetlands, but the cost of transport on top of the ponies themselves is prohibitive - plus I'd be taking a gamble on a pony I'd never seen. I think for many, it is the same. Perhaps someone should bring the shetlands to a main land sale. Sounds like there is a market here for them even in these hard times. Although I guess if there isn't a dealer already doing it, it's not worth it. Dealers used to buy NF foals at Beauleiu and take them 'oooop north' to sell.
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Post by jackiedo on Dec 26, 2012 10:23:12 GMT 1
Sometimes Island bred stock is sold at the annual Shetland sale at York. At the sale (Holmfirth) where I bought silver there was a mini shetland stallion, Dun in colour who looked like he would show really well, who had originally been imported from Norway, made just £70. Hardly the place to sell him, hope he just did not end up tethered in someones garden
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Post by specialized on Dec 26, 2012 11:49:46 GMT 1
Island-bred stock is also sold at Aberdeen a couple of days after the island sale, and some stock brought down to Wales will go through Reading in the spring. Pretty-much all the stock from our neighbours has close lines direct to the islands.
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