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Enfys

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What would she cost in the UK I wonder?

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http://brantford.kijiji.ca/c-pets-livestock-for-sale-Gypsy-Vanner-Filly-W0QQAdIdZ215821138

I knew I should have shipped over a bunch of cobs! ;)
 
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At work!!! Missed the link before, gosh it must be one special vanner! Are all horses more expensive over there or is it just that breeder is a bit optimistic?
 
How much would my tricoloured 14.2 3yr old go for then??!!!...... :eek:

She's lovely but still...

Seriously, you really should ship over a couple of nice coloured gypsy cob mares. They're cost you a couple of grand max here, same for shipping and the first foal would make you it back.......
 
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At work!!! Missed the link before, gosh it must be one special vanner! Are all horses more expensive over there or is it just that breeder is a bit optimistic?
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No, nothing particularly 'special' (no offence intended) about her at all, they are just a bit of a novelty here hence the prices, people do pay that, they may have to drop a bit but not much.

Horses aren't really priced differently, it just looks more expensive when you are converting back to pounds. I would be asking, and expecting, half that for the yellow colt at 6 months but am inclined to keep him for a couple of years, backed and riding away I would expect three times that, more if he showed well, he'd go to the States then. In the UK I have no idea how much he'd be, Paints aren't that common there yet it would seem. It is all about colour, people like flashy horses and will pay for well trained horses, a friend has just sold a hunter/jumper (think working hunter - ish) for $45,000 - that's what I call expensive!

Kallibear, now, your lovely tri-coloured, over here? Going by prices I see for vanners, $12-15,000 easily if broken.:) The more hair and feather, the better.

I have seriously considered shipping some cobs over believe me, still am.
 
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I hope they know about treating leg mites in the US. LOL. I know they are hankering after coloured tb's as well.
 
it may seem alot to us but in the gypsy community ,its nothing , alot of gypsy cobs are taken to fair and depending on breeding go for alot of money
example a a 2 year old colt from The Lion King, who sold in England in the fall of 2003 for £55,000 (British Pounds)

this i copied of a gypsy site
This 4 year old Lion King mare mare was all the rage in the fall of 2005's horse fairs. She was bred in England, taken to Ireland for a bit, and sold for big money at an Irish horse fair. A few weeks later, she made it back to England and sold several more times in succession, each gypsy breeding "bidding profit" on her (that is what you do when someone has just purchased a horse that you want, you "bid them profit", and when the profit gets good enough, the horse sells, before it's ever even gone to a new home). Sometimes a horse can change hands 4-5 times in an hour with this system, it works well for gypsies! The man that ended up with this mare "on the day" ended up giving over £30,000 pounds (about $55,000 dollars) for her that day. She was bred by the man who owned The Lion King for most of his life, and he intended to keep her, but the bidding got too good for him to refuse when the Irish boys came around a few weeks before

there are other gypsy cobs to, that there stock go for big money
so as it seems obversely depending who or what bloodlines they got the do go for big money
 
There is a chap near us who breeds these, they are all really cute and if you try and buy one they start at £10 000 cheapest for and go all the way up to mega bucks. he has huge number of american clients and starts the year with a couple of hundred foals and by the end most are gone. They all look like that youngster, feathers, chunky and around 14hh - 15hh max. the colours range from all black to piebald, skewbald, blue and strawberry roans and a few bays.
 
They do get very good prices, and £5,000 for a nice gypsy foal is not uncommon.

When I bought Stinky, there was a very nice yearling that the gypsy breeder had just turned down £10,000 for. One of his mares was £30,000 and he said no price on his stallion. These were top quality breed gypsy cobs though.

Thankfully, Stinky was not as expensive - cost me £2,000 as a yearling, but he has turned out rather well - well so I like to think.:)

That said, I have now seen some nice foals from £1,000 up, but they don't have the bloodlines that command the serious money that people will pay for.
 
The USA always has high prices for horses. Accordingly my own horse Ive worked out would be worth about £40k there! Honestly, Im horrified at the price of what are in my opinion "basic" horses - ie. ones which are jumping 1m at events, thats it, nothing special, they seem to start at about £12k.
 
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