Peoples opinion on selling old horses?

[elizabeth1]

Ok, so I have started a line of clydesdales and have noticed that my used breeding stock doesn't really seem to want to sell as well as my younger stallions and stuff that I don't have a need for. And, I would love your guys opinion on what you look for if you're buying an older horse (15+)
Here are a few things I tend to do if I'm selling an older horse.
1. Keep the price lower
2. If its a mare sell her pregnant
3. Take them off after 20+ years of age

What do you guys do/recccomend to do to hopefully sell them

[BlackOak2]

Ok, so I have started a line of clydesdales and have noticed that my used breeding stock doesn't really seem to want to sell as well as my younger stallions and stuff that I don't have a need for. And, I would love your guys opinion on what you look for if you're buying an older horse (15+)
Here are a few things I tend to do if I'm selling an older horse.
1. Keep the price lower
2. If its a mare sell her pregnant
3. Take them off after 20+ years of age

What do you guys do/recccomend to do to hopefully sell them

For older stock, the ones I generally buy, I have an immediate need for. Right now, it's usually quest recipes. But it might be color or offspring production.
Plus, there's a quest to purchase older, untrained... pregnant? and one or two other quests for an older horse. So having a couple up that's older than 20 years might still sell. Though don't expect too much... of course, I did recently spend I think 8k on a mare that was 23? years old. She was a quest recipe mare I needed.

Some other things that will still sell a horse over 10 years: full training, or discipline training, competition record, strong offspring record, strong color record. There is always something that somebody is looking for. Clydesdales could be considered a partial-niche market, which just means demand for them will come and go. The best way to drum up regular interest is likely to breed them into something that's regularly desirable. Make them into a competition line, either specialized (like sprinting clydesdales) or generalized (they pull in regular, high WPS in many disciplines). This will boost general interest and desire, thus offering an out for unneeded breeding stock after you're finished with them. Not all of those horses need to be trained or comped, IF they come from a line of proven competitors.