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| SAVING YOU MONEY! The customer service involved in providing guarantees is real. It means a lot of talking with clients, coaching and supporting new owners, if the horse needs to be vetted, I have to be available for the vet check and have a rider ready. Sometimes I don't get a lot of notice and I have to re-arrange my schedule the last minute. If a horse comes back, I have to spend more time, first with the client to find them a new horse, and then with the horse to get it back to where it should be...it all takes time, it all costs money because time I'm spending with customer service, I'm not taking care of something else. So, for those who want to pay less, we simply eliminate the guarantees...it doesn't mean the horse CAN'T be guaranteed, in fact, for $500 we will add a guarantee to any horse selling "As Is" It simply means we are trying to find ways to get you a good horse and save you some money in a tight economy. |
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"Old horses for young riders,
Old riders for young horses"
"Green and green makes for black and blue!"
-- Horseman's proverbs --
We've been selling some good horses lately..and we've been scrambling to find new ones that meet our standards...to bring them in and test them ... to evaluate their strengths and weaknesses and to photograph them and get them up on the website. We have a VERY nice selection of quiet, well trained geldings...this is one of the best selection we've had in a long time. Watch the website to see them come up!!!
WINTER SALE!!
EVERY YEAR WE HAVE A WINTER SALE TO HELP PROMOTE BUSINESS IN THE COLD WINTER MONTHS ... but this year it is even bigger...if you have looked on the "news" page you will see that we have lost the big barn with the roof collapse. So, we need to get rid of some horses ....and YOU get the savings....
BEGINNER
HORSES ~ OR "BOMBPROOF" HORSESEvery good horseman HATES the term "bombproof" because horses are living things and nothing is "bomb-PROOF!" That being said, we do our best to find horses as close to that as we can. Out of 10 nice horses we have, at at least 8 are too side sensitive to carry a rider who hangs on with his lower legs, or rides in "happy frog" position of hanging on with the heels. They will pick up speed with a beginner rider, just because they think the heels indicate they should go. They are nice, they are solid, they have no vices, but they are not SAFE for a beginner beginner to ride, to learn on, or to take home without supervision. Some of these would work if they were in a training barn, where someone with knowledge can catch and correct mistakes, or where someone can jump in and set the rules when the horse tries to take advantage of the beginner...because lets face it...the HORSE knows more about horses than the beginner does, and that fact becomes apparent (to the horse at least) very soon after the two are left alone together!
Most of the time we recommend lazy horses for beginners. They are slow and quiet. If the rider can't ride or is timid, they stop. This is MUCH better than running off!! Eventually a rider will get frustrated and mad, and will become assertive....they forget to be timid and they start to exert some authority. Also, since the horse isn't moving, they feel confident...this is just what you WANT them to feel!! When they get assertive, the horse moves, and a lazy horse will keep moving to the level of forcefulness on the part of the rider. It may be a lot of work, but it TEACHES a lot, without danger, and again, a lazy horse will never run off!
Every couple of dozen horses, we find one that just genuinely LIKES beginners, or kids, and is willing to work with them. These rare finds will be careful and quiet with children or beginners, but they are not basically lazy, so they will move to the level they feel it is safe for their rider. They go willingly, but they stop willingly and carefully and they are good at reading whether the heels in are for the balance of the rider, or because the rider not only WANTS to go, but is capable of staying there! Everyone WANTS these horses and they are hard to find, so they aren't cheap no matter what they look like!!
Our Philosophy ~ You can shear a sheep many times, but you can only skin it once.
We are proud that many of our customers return to buy other horses, or recommend us to their friends. That's because we don't "SKIN" those who purchase horses from us!
WE HAVE THE BEST PUBLISHED GUARANTEE IN THE HORSE BUSINESS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO READ IT, AND TO PRINT IT OUT Click here for PDF
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Kandi is the webmaster for this site and it is changed frequently. I hate to say it is ALWASYS up to date, but it is never more than a day or two out. You will sometimes see horses go off the site, then come back on. Sometimes this is because the horse has been leased and has come back from the lease. Sometimes it is because we wanted to evaluate the horse further, and sometimes it is because a sale has fallen through. Sometimes the price of a horse will go UP because it has been to a show and done well, it has learned a new skill, or it has proven to be especially good at it's job. Sometimes it is because the horse was thin when we got it and it looks a lot better. If you have a printed copy of the old price, and purchase the horse within 30 days, we will honor the old price. If you get our newsletter, be sure to mention it if there is a special offer you wish to take advantage of.
What makes our horses different? Recently a fellow horseman commented that I seem to have a good market for horses in the $2000-$5000 range, even though, for most other farms, that seems to be the hardest price range to sell. Below $2000, horses sell, and above $5000 they sell. He wondered HOW I was doing so well in that range.
The answer is simple ~ We LOOK for horses in that price range that will fill the needs of recreational riders. High-end barns have high priced horses. If they get a bad one, they mark it down to sell it and it ends up in that mid-price range. But if a horse wants to kill you for $12,000 he is still going to want to kill you if he is priced at $2500!!!!! Often "horse traders" will mark up a junk horse because the buyer seems to be willing to pay a higher price. But if a horse is junk, and untrained, he is still going to be junk and untrained if you raise his price!!! We SEARCH AND LOOK SPECIFICALLY FOR GOOD, SOUND, WELL TRAINED HORSES WHICH WILL MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR CLIENTS. We HAVE TO LOOK AT DOZENS AND DOZENS OF HORSES TO FIND ONE WE THINK WILL WORK. THEN WE TAKE IT HOME AND EVALUATE IT. IF YOU VISIT THE FARM YOU WILL ALWAYS FIND HORSES THAT ARE NOT ON THIS SITE BECAUSE THEY DON'T MEET OUR STANDARDS. Some of them will, with training, some of them wouldn't and they will go back to the guys we bought them from. They will not sell here where we will have to stand behind them. We guarantee every horse we sell and there is no point in selling a bad one, or misrepresenting one because we will just get it back!!! We buy from good horsemen we've known for years, guys who know good horses and with whom we have a good working relationship. We pay more for our horses than we would from sales, but we don't get stuck with horses that aren't good. We don't have to lose money on the bad ones. We just take them back. In the long run, it keeps us from having to try to unload a bad one to get him off our feedbill, or from raising prices to cover bad buys.
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will find our horses trustworthy. They go where they are suppose
to go, they stop when they are suppose to stop! They don't fight
the rider or the bridle and they ALL go out alone, with a group, or can
be left by the group. That's called "TRAINING!" and it is the
training that makes our horses worth more than the "give aways."
But it's that same training that will keep you and your loved ones safe!
I used to have an old horse trainer who liked to say, "It costs just as
much to feed a bad one as it does to feed a good one, but the good one
is worth the money because you will use it more and get more enjoyment
from it. Divide an extra $1,000 over ten years and it's an extra
$8 a month, but you will ride a good one often, where a bad one will
make you lose interest and it will just stand in the pasture and eat.
A bad one will promote FEAR of horses instead of LOVE of horses....now
THAT'S a bad investment no matter how much it costs. And we are so
committed to matching recreational riders with good horses that we will
FINANCE the cost above what you are comfortable paying!
All
of our horses have been trained classically (often called a horse
whispering technique, or natural horsemanship). They have soft,
educated mouths, will give to the bridle, and the horses for more
experienced riders respond to leg and shift of weight. They all
have a lot of steering and brakes and don't fight the bridle. Many of
them have low head carriage. Sometimes riders who are not used to this
style of horse have a little trouble feeling comfortable. They
have trouble trusting and riding on a loose rein, or they feel like the
horse is trying to buck when the head is down. But once you learn
to ride a horse that is well trained, no matter what you are using them
for, you will LOVE them
We want both you and the horse to be comfortable and to develop a rich understanding of how to work as a team. We specialize in matching horses to riders, and will be glad to give you lessons on your horse, or any horse you have an interest in purchasing.
