For Sale Barns & High-Volume Sellers
Real horses getting sold. Trials getting booked. Less than one show-day lunch for your entire barn — Elite Equine Marketplace is a modern, mobile-first platform built exclusively for the hunter jumper world, with the tools active sale barns and high-volume trainers need to sell horses faster and smarter than any other platform.
The Sale Barn Advantage
Every feature on this list was built with active, professional horse sellers in mind — not occasional private sellers, not general classifieds users. The tools that move horses.
List horses, services, tack, properties, and events under a single flat subscription — less than one show-day lunch for your entire barn for the whole month, with even lower rates on quarterly or annual plans. No pay-per-post. No per-ad fees. No surprise charges. Unlimited listings across every category from day one.
Upload photos, videos, PDFs, pedigree charts, and external links (USEF, FEI, ClipMyHorse, YouTube) right from your phone, tablet, or laptop — unrestricted, at no extra cost. Your listing looks exactly as premium as your horses.
Your listing appears on our interactive map showing your home location AND your show circuit travel. Two colors — home vs. traveling — so buyers know exactly where you are right now and can book a trial on your availability calendar.
Track views, comments, shares, tags, and reviews in your dedicated seller dashboard. Know which listings are getting traction, which horses are being wishlisted by buyers, and exactly how your program is performing on the platform.
Your listings are optimized with search-friendly structure, metadata, and indexing — so buyers searching for your exact type of horse find you organically on Google, without extra ad spend or effort on your part.
Premium listings are automatically promoted on the Elite Equine homepage, Instagram (13k followers), TikTok, and Facebook — putting your horses in front of our highly engaged hunter jumper audience beyond the platform itself.
Communicate with potential buyers instantly through our secure in-platform messaging system. No email chains, no phone tag — direct, fast, professional communication from first inquiry through trial booking.
Instant text, email, and in-app push notifications for buyer messages, listing comments, wishlist activity, and payment confirmations. Be the first to respond to serious buyers every time.
Sell tack and equipment directly through our secure Stripe-powered payment system. Use the built-in auction tool for competitive bidding on high-value items — a feature no other hunter jumper platform offers.
Not a tech person? Our premium managed service handles everything: SEO-optimized listing creation, media uploads, regular updates, social promotion, and buyer response — so your horses stay visible and buyer-ready without the workload.
The Economics
Starting at $14.99/month — here's what that actually means for a sale barn with 10 horses actively listed:
BigEq: $99.99 per ad x 10 horses = $999.90 to list your full inventory for 6 months. Want to update or relist? Pay again.
Elite Equine Marketplace: $14.99/month = $89.94 for 6 months. Unlimited horses. Unlimited updates. All categories — horses, tack, services, events.
For a sale barn with 10 active horses, Elite Equine Marketplace costs approximately 9% of what BigEq costs — while providing a more modern platform, mobile app, map-based discovery, instant buyer alerts, and seller analytics that BigEq simply does not offer.
Who It's For
A sale barn with 5, 10, or 20 horses actively for sale needs a platform that can handle volume without punishing you for it. On per-ad platforms like BigEq, every new horse costs money to list — meaning a barn with a constantly rotating inventory pays hundreds of dollars per month in listing fees alone. On Elite Equine Marketplace, your flat subscription covers unlimited listings across every category — horses, tack, property, and services — for one fixed monthly fee that is less than one show-day lunch for the whole month.
The Florida winter circuit is the most active horse market in North America — and Elite Equine Marketplace's map-based discovery makes it the ideal platform for trainers actively selling horses at WEF and Ocala. When you mark your horses as attending Wellington or Ocala, your listings appear in location searches from buyers who are planning their circuit visits and looking for trial opportunities near the show venue. Instant buyer alerts mean you respond to serious inquiries before they contact the next seller on their list.
Import agents and European warmblood programs benefit from Elite Equine Marketplace's global reach and the platform's specific targeting of the US hunter jumper buyer market. A European import listed on Elite Equine Marketplace reaches US buyers who are specifically looking for KWPN, Belgian Warmblood, and Hanoverian horses for the hunter jumper ring — the most qualified and motivated buyer segment for high-value European imports.
For sale barns and active programs that do not have the time or staff to manage their online presence, Elite Equine Marketplace's premium Managed Service handles everything — SEO-optimized listing creation, photo and video upload, regular listing updates, social media promotion on Instagram and TikTok, and buyer response management. Your horses stay visible, polished, and buyer-ready without any workload on your team.