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Most people don't price by PT, but rather points, genes and papers. "Plain" and common horses likely won't bring much more than 2500 unless they have a number of show points. I auction everything i'm nor keeping unless its something special i think someone will actually want.

just give me an ex ^_^
a sba passed mare on a 6.7 pt and papered RED, red dun, 4 yo. what would you put a price on her?

or a 4 yo bay, sba tested and passed with the paper RED but a pt of 8?

Ok, so a second gen, SBA passed, red papered mare. Typical red dun mare, no flashy genes, with a consistent PT of 8? Yeah that would be a snip for show or auction for me unless I was breeding for strictly red dun.

Now, a liver red dun, with everything else mentioned above being the same? I would list at maybe 3500.

Not really, unless the horse happened to get a copy of DP or is a confirmed het snowflake.

I would also suggest watching forum auctions and checking the auction house "last week'ssalese" to get a feeling for pricing.
As far as what genes people like, that varies. If you are breeding for sales you have to do your research to see what fetches a good price. And even that can change in a moments notice with either a gene coming out or someone linking a beautiful foal and suddenly a lot of people fall in love with that line.

Nobody will be able to give you a fixed table of pricing for all the possible options. If you feel a horse is worth too much for risking a 2500 auction sale, try put them up in the forum and see what they might fetch.

If someone is looking for a gmt-able specific RS stallion, you might get a lot of money. You might not be able to sell the exact same horse 2 weeks later, because nobody is looking for one exactly like that.

With me, foundation and second gen horses go for 2500 unless there is something that speaks to me because both those are easy to come by. There has to be a reason why this horse is harder to get that just creating a random create and then breeding a foal from it to make me post higher, and even hen usually I only get 2500 from them anyway. 3rd gens usually 3000, and then with each generation it goes up a bit because it is harder to come by them. 4rth gen 5000, 5th gen 7500... but this is all guidelines, then I sit and look at the horse and see what I label it, some a bit more, some a bit less depending on how much I like them/ how much I need to lower numbers.

Something that no one has explicitly said yet that confused me when I first started -- selling horses is not the best way to make money in this game. (At least not in the long term.) For long term income, barns full of show horses are the way to go. It's never too soon to start planning for that!

Mostly people want to breed their own lines, and while there are trends which can make prices skyrocket, those are difficult to plan for.

That said! I just earned IVs for a basic upgrade by selling pointed foundation horses. People buy them because show horses are the money makers, and pointed horses have a big head start on earning.

Pricing them is not a straightforward thing, though! In my experience people want horses with at least 200 points, and preferably with an Exceptionally Perfect, Perfect Foundation, Excellent Show Horse or Great Show Horse tattoo. A foundation horse in the 100 point zone is unlikely to sell for 3K even if there is something special about it. So if they have much fewer than 200 points, I usually throw them into auction, because at least that way I'll get my money back. (I sometimes list under 200, but then I price them in the 2700-2800 range.)

But! As you get to higher point levels, people will pay more. Even ordinary 250-300 point horses will sell in the 3.5-4k range. Anything higher than that may be worth running a forum auction.

If you check out the Pointed Creates chat group, it might help you get a sense for how the market goes.

Hope that's helpful -- let us know if you have more questions!

Thanks guys, I sell only to get quick cash and to "start over" my breeding. I know the show horses is the key but I need the stalls from my breeders to start over :x