Glad someone's making a sale, no matter what the horse is off to do.

From what I've seen in my area - the low-end for H/J land is still in the dumps for the most part. Little gaps of the 20k and under market seem to be picking up. Made local-level horses are selling okay - they tend to be priced around $7-12k. A lot of the horses that might have one or two years left before they step down to locals are priced closer to 15-20k and just not moving. More people are doing locals than the big AA's in order to save some $$, so the 3' and below divisions are buying "less" horse. The typical "hard sell" in the H/J market (14.3-`15.1hh with the Small Junior Hunter exception) seems to be just as hard a sell as it always is.

The middle and upper end of our market never really slowed down much, (20k-80k/80k and up) but you are seeing prices "normalize" a bit. Yes, they are still outrageous by any standard other than H/J land (lets just nip that one in the bud before it gets going), but they are closer to what we we were seeing a few years ago.

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