This week's listing
Verdict’s estimate
Asking
Market position
- Below Market
- At Market
- Above Market
- Overlaps Market
- Verdict’s estimate
- Nearest asking prices at the same level
- This listing’s asking price
What any sport horse is actually worth.
An independent estimate on every horse, priced against similar listings across the whole market. Not paid for by any seller.
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Why this number is different
- Listing sites
- Paid by sellers.
- Brokers
- Paid by commission.
- Verdict
- Paid by neither.
Each estimate comes from similar listings at the horse’s own level. It reads the same whoever is looking.
Watch it price a real listing.
Paste any listing, from Verdict or anywhere on the web, and this is what happens. No black box, no gut feel. The same steps, every time.
- Reading the market Every tracked source, refreshed every Monday
- Matching similar horses
- Computing the range
Shown at demo speed, on a real listing the engine has priced.
Where Verdict draws the lines
At Market means the asking price is inside the estimate range, or close to it. Close means within 2 percent of that end, or $1,000, whichever is larger.
The Monday email tells you when a saved horse's price changes. A change must reach $500 or 1 percent of the earlier price, whichever is larger.
A typical asking range needs at least 5 listings behind it, or it isn't shown. The confidence word reads Limited with fewer than 5 similar horses for sale.
See what your number actually buys.
Pick a budget and see how far it reaches at every dressage level. Green horses to Grand Prix, counted from the live catalog.
Dressage shown. Jumping and hunters are in the full report.
- Green and young
- Training to 2nd level
- 3rd to 4th level
- Prix St. Georges
- Grand Prix
How many listings at each level ask your number or less. A level with too few listings says so.
Middle half of US asking prices
Every level is priced on its own.
A 1.25m to 1.40m jumper in Wellington is never priced against a Prix St. Georges horse in Germany. Each horse is priced against similar horses: the same discipline, level and continent, and a similar age. Never against an average of everything.
- Jumping
- Dressage
- Hunters
Levels with fewer than 5 listings are not shown.
The same range, scaled to this region
The Sport Horse Price Index
Each bar is the middle half of asking prices.
Jumping
- Amateur jumpers 1.05m to 1.40m
Hunters
- Adult amateur hunters Children's / Adult and Amateur Owner
Dressage
- Training to 2nd level
- 3rd to 4th level
- Prix St. Georges
The same five levels and figures as the Dispatch. Asking prices, not sale prices.
The Dispatch
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From one rider to another
I built the number I wish I’d had.
I’m Vlada. I ride and compete in dressage, same as many of you. And I spent my career in finance and strategy, at Deloitte and beyond, pricing things for a living.
Then I went horse shopping and found a market that runs on who you know. If you’re not in the right circle, you’re left guessing whether a price is fair. So I built the pricing tool this market never had, with the same honest number for every horse, the one I wish someone had handed me.
Vlada, with Opi
Founder, Verdict
If it jumps, dances, or shows, it has a number here.
- Disciplines
- Jumping, dressage, and hunters, at every amateur and professional level
- Price range
- From first-horse budgets to six figures, across the US and Europe
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Questions, answered.
How does Verdict know what a sport horse is worth?
Verdict reads the whole market and prices every horse against similar listings: the same discipline, level and continent, and a similar age. The estimate is a range. The listing page shows it beside the asking price, so you can check it yourself.
Where do the listings come from?
From listing sites in the US and Europe, gathered into one market and refreshed every Monday.
Does Verdict tell me whether to buy a horse?
No, and on purpose. Verdict tells you where an asking price stands: below, at, or above market, with the similar listings behind it. The decision stays with you, your trainer, and your vet.
Is Verdict free?
Yes. Browsing and estimates cost nothing, and no account is needed to browse. Price alerts, side-by-side comparison, and value tracking on the horse you own cost nothing too, and need only an email to sign in. There is no way to pay for any of it yet.
What does Verdict cover?
Jumping, dressage, and hunters, at every amateur and professional level, from first-horse budgets to six figures, across the US and Europe.
Can I see what my own horse is worth?
Yes. Add your horse and Verdict prices it against similar listings on the market right now. It then tracks how the estimate moves over time. You do not need to be selling.
How accurate is Verdict's estimate?
Every estimate is a range, not a single number. Each one carries a confidence word: High, Medium, or Limited. The word depends on the similar horses for sale right now. Similar means the same discipline and level, a similar age, and the same continent. High takes at least ten similar horses with an asking price. At least five of them must list a single price. Those prices cannot be too far apart. A listing with only a price range counts toward the ten, not the five. Fewer than five similar horses reads Limited. So does an estimate far from what similar horses are asking, however many there are. So does any horse Verdict cannot place in one of the regions it covers. A horse can also read Limited when the listing gives no level, when it is a young prospect, when it cites international results we haven't verified, or when our two estimates disagree. Everything in between reads Medium.
Does Verdict replace my trainer or a vet check?
No. Verdict is market intelligence: what similar horses are asking, and where a price stands. Soundness, suitability, and the buying decision belong to you, your trainer, and your vet.
What makes a sport horse worth more or less?
Discipline, level, age and region decide which horses each one is priced against. Each horse is priced against horses a buyer would actually cross-shop, never against an average of everything.