Welsh Ponies siezed and going to auction!!

[kbf08]

Crossposting this in hopes that people will save these ponies!


Just came from the Manchester, MI hay auction where the auctioneer announced that on Sat, there will be a special auction to disperse the estate of a nationally known Welsh pony breeder whose stock was seized by the state. I don't know who it was, auctioneer stated that the woman's name was Allison and that her farm started with a "P". Also that all of these horses had recently been on her website for $1500-$10,500.

Details:
26 purebred Welsh ponies from weanlings to 5 years. No papers, owner would not give them to the guys who seized the horses. Don't know if it would be possible to get replacements. Not broke. (shockingly, all of the broke horses were gone when the state showed up).

Absolute, unadvertised sale. No minimu bids. No "no-sales". Everything sells.

ALso, all of her equipment, pony wagons, harness, feeders, trailers etc. "stuff" starts at 6 pm, ponies promptly at 9pm.

Here's a link to the owner's web: www.palustrinefarm.com/sale/index.html


I plan on attending as well as quite a few other local trainers. Spread the word, these ponies are in danger. The kill buyers do attend this auction!

[lounsbery2]

why did they seize thise ponies, they don't look skinny or anything

[kbf08]

A nasty divorce and the judge ordered it. Really nice ponies going cheap!!

[kbf08]

Craigslist ad has pics!

annarbor.craigslist.org/grd/1272577440.html

[stolzml]

hummm, kind of fishy, never heard of anything being seized in a divorce unless they owe for taxes??? a dispersel i can see, but something is odd... half those ponies look potbellied too, kind of odd for a serious breeder... some look more like Quarter ponies than show bred welsh, some look like Tb/welsh crosses... how do all the broke registered ones "disappear"? definately something very odd in this story.

[jrcdmom]

There were alot of people there for an unadvertised sale, the wait in line to pay was more than an hour
It is my opinion they went kind of high for unhandled no papers ponies. The high selling pony went for $1400 and most others were between $500 and $800.
Was an interesting auction that's for sure.

[nlk]

Well I can answer several questions! From what I understand ( and I have the seizure papers...) it was from the divorce. She was told to sell them and split the money or they would be taken and sold at auction. She decided to have them sent to auction because they would get sold for cheaper and then her husband would get less money.... at least that is the story I got.....

Several were listed as crosses on the website. Also remember there are different standards that define the Welsh breed so they all don't look like super duper show ponies...

Why did they go for so much? Because everyone panicked that it was a kill auction and they would be bought for meat. So everyone went to save the little ponies that were never going to be bought for meat in the first place and drove the prices up.

Ooh and the particular Kill buyer that was there that everyone kept bidding against for fear of them going for meat would have taken them home threw them on grass for a month or two, wormed them, had them broken out and then sold them to the schools and people who want back yard ponies for the grand kids, so everyone basically raised their own bids....

Ladies and gentlemen, with the prices of gas and the price per pound, even if a dealer bought the whole lot he'd barely break even when he got home from Canada.