Issue A - I don't know the B.C. market and I can imagine that it would be quite a bit different from mainland/east coast market so it's hard to give an opinion on the Belgian X mare that you have for sale. I can say right off hand that the pictures posted on the board are not the most flattering and they're both taken from an angle that makes it very difficult to judge the horse on conformation. The first video is tiny, distant, and blurry. Her jump is nothing spectacular. It almost makes it feel like you are trying to hide faults/flaws. If I were basing off of the first video alone, it looks like she's doing a weird jiggy/half step trot during part of it - it's probably just the blurry video, but when I look at sales videos I look for ANYTHING that jumps out at me. You're in a more limited market, as I would imagine shipping from B.C. can be prohibitively expensive in some cases, and though the horse may have potential for 3' to 3'6'' I personally would keep looking. There are many many horses on the market right now with solid show records or who do not have little quirks like being ear shy for the same money. She's not my cup of tea, but someone may love her. I don't think she is priced unrealistically high or anything, but be prepared to hang onto her for a while and have a lot of looky loos. There are too many options out there for people these days.

As for holding the TB mare specifically for your friend until this horse sells? Business is business. If she wants her, she should buy her, or at least offer to put down a deposit on her to prove her intent. If she changes her mind three months from now or her horse just won't sell and you've spent weeks telling people the TB is not available any longer you're only hurting your bottom line. It's $500. I might feel differently about a $5000 horse, but not likely.

Issue B - Agree with CCR. Go to the auction and buy her cheap if she goes low. Or, offer the lady whatever you think she would go for at auction and say you'll take her off her hands now and she won't have to deal with hauling horses/selling/etc. If she turns you down, there's a good chance she'd no sale the horse for the same money at the sale, or you always have the option of attending and buying her there.

Issue C - So what if the TB mare is going to be wintered in Alberta? She's not in imminent danger of being shipped to slaughter, it prevents you from having to feed her through the winter, and it's sooner than you want a pregnant mare anyway. If you want her just because she's nice and you think she's a better option than one you can find at an auction, go for it, but I would also turn down the part owner on the registration deal. There are too many potential complications with a situation like that.

There are too many stupid people in the world. I'm not saying we should kill them all or anything; let's just take the warning labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself.