Unfortunately for now, its a no go. The mare herself is as lovely as I can determine without actually seeing her. Papers wise I discovered the foal I planned to breed from her would be able to go to the level of competition I wanted, so there was no problem there. I was really excited to go try her out.

However after discussion me and my family have decided its too big of a gamble financially. She's at the top of our budget, she's 4 hours away so just to see her would be a lot of money on top of that, which is not a problem but my parents don't like that she doesn't have papers so they're less inclined, and she's considerably older then we were hoping for. Then once we get her here we either have to get another horse immediately (probably older, but then that comes with problems of its own. There's quite a few miniatures around that are affordable that are younger but I'm not sure how kindly a 15.3 whos been in a group all her life would take to one maybe two minis), build some sort of box for her, then we have to think about tack. Its just not a leap my parents are willing to take for a non papered older mare.

The only thing I can think of that may reverse that decision is that the owner is anxious to sell quickly as she is in the middle of moving, so she may offer a deal? I don't know, but for now its a no, much to my regret. She really is a super little mare.