Hi, I hope someone can offer some advice.
My daughter (12) has been riding for years, is a member of Pony Club (D+/Silver level 1 at the moment). She is very confident and does low-level jumping and dressage competitions (although nothing major).
She volunteers at the yard where she rides and the yard is both close to our house and her school, so she could be there every day (she already is anyway even without her own horse).
She is desperate for her own pony, but I have been speaking to the yard for many months now and they say that the prices have gone up significantly in recent months and that I should budget £8-12K minimum. In any event, even with that budget (which to me sounds huge) they are still struggling to find anything.
We are just looking for a placid happy hacker/Pony Club type of horse. We are in North London, but obviously willing to travel. Does anyone have any recommendations of reputable places to approach and where to go if the yard can't find anything? I would of course get the yard to check the horse etc etc once we find it, but I wouldn't even know where to start.