A thread that hasnt been done before! How much did you pay for your horse and....

I paid £1500 for my boy, inc tack, rugs etc.
When I bought him he had just turned 8, 18.1hh 3/4 Shire, 1/4 tb gelding.
20 months on, and I have no idea how much he is worth. I would have thought he might be worth a bit as a mans hunter but no matter how much he is worth he is with me for life.
 
this might shock some ppl :rolleyes:

silver echo:
dhs 25,000 (approx £5000) in 2001
12yo grey wb-tb, 16.2hh

jorvey p (jerry):
dhs 60,000 (approx £10,000) in 2005
15yo chestnut kwpn, 16.2hh

stall notz timberland:
35,000 euro in 2010
10yo bay kwpn, 16.1hh

Timberland is my dad's. my dad obviously has more money than sense :eek:
Jerry is mine and Echo was mine before he was pts in 2006.
 
My current horse is Cooper, 15.2hh, ISH, 7yo gelding that I bought last July for 4k. I'm still working on ironing out his issues and we've only really been able to get going with schooling since January when we moved to a yard with good facilities as the last place the arena surface was awful! If I did try to sell him now I might be able to get a bit more for him.
 
Just a post for fun really, i paid £300 for my 5 year old, 5 months ago, she was unbroken at the time. However she is now following on hacks and has lovely ground manners (99% of the time) and is pretty un spooky....
 
almost £8k. 9yr old 17hh Grey Belgian Warmblood (corland is sire bred to be a showjumper). He has done a lot of showing, showjumping and dressaging as well as a little bit of eventing.

Had a back condition (hence why so cheap but the dealer lied and he passed a 5 stage vetting with full x-rays!) for what he had done so now my little RC horse so priceless (probs about £5k now if we are honest as just needs cheap steroids once a year to keep him in full work and is very safe etc)!

Been offered a 50% refund and keep the horse (or return and get a full refund as we caught the little twit of a man out but I cant do that hes my little unsuitable baby!). Need to get on and actually tell him my decision to get the money back, so realistically paid £4k now for him :)
 
My horse - 16hh Dun gelding conn x TB we (well my parents) paid £3000 for him as a 4 yo. Think that was the most we ever spent on a horse. That was 16 years ago. He is 20 this year so i think he was worth the money as he's done BSJA, ODEs, etc etc with a fair bit of success. He also hacks with me and my mum and has really (touch wood) never been off work for any long period in that time.

My pony we paid £1850 for, he is a 14.2hh welsh x TB (or something) and was 7/8 when we bought him. That was 17 years ago and again he is still going strong!

Last year I paid £900 for a 15mth old coloured gelding to make 16hh ish. his mum is a TB and I have no idea what his dad is - some coloured sports horse i imagine as he does not have feathers but has decent bone. i hope he can go on like the others as then he will work out to bargain! lol
 
Mollie - Dales pony, mare, 13.2hh was £1,800 at 7yrs old.

Mystic -Irish sports pony, gelding, 14.2hh, I paid £1 for him and £149 for his tack when he was 17yrs

Monty -Traditional Cob, gelding, currently 14.2hh I paid £900 when he was 1 1/2yrs old

Not sure what they are worth now.
 
Oh, this sounds fun - good to remember too!!

Ok....

First pony NF filly a yearling for £170 sold as a 5 year old for £1850

Jesse (5 months old) brought for £500, sold at 12, a 17hh been there done that horse with ALL tack and rugs for £4500 then brought him back a couple of years later for £2500 with nothing. But he is back for good!

Murphy - 15.2hh coloured Irish SJ £4250 reschooled and sold to a friend for £1200 as noone but me and a couple of other people were brave enough to get on him - he was very happy spirited and look a lot worse!!!

Red - £800 as an 8 month old, now 16.2hh, trakhener x.
Not for sale!

Caylinn - KWPN brought as a 3 year old for £2800 super. Breeding and lovely girl. Not for sale either!!!
 
tb ex racer £1500 at 8 years old, very experienced. 2009 worth around £3500, now at 13, worth didly squat as he is now crippled!
tb X god knows what! paid £500 june last year. 7 year old blank slate, i would say now she is currently worth around £1900 in the current market.
 
I paid £1150 for a 6yo anglo arab, 15.2hh gelding. He was very green having only been started as a 5yo.

This was in 1989, he is now 28 sorting out my youngsters having enjoyed a successful endurance career.

Slightly scarey that I could probably get someone similar for similar money now....
 
daughters'1st pony - samuel p whiskers - £500 - 2 yrs of total happiness until out grown - sold him back to his old owner for the same amount
daughters' 2nd pony - £1,000 - total star & a lovely pony - sold after outgrown for £1,300
Ruby - £3,500 - 7 yrs ago - it felt a huge amount to me then - but 7yrs on she brings me happiness everyday - probably worth less than her saddle now tho:) [ aged & arthrtic]
 
Titch - paid £1, worth over £1,000 (no idea how much really but she has some good show results under her belt now)

Genie - paid £3.3k, valued last year at over £5k
 
Vinnie - £900 as a foal he is TB X knabstrupper if he hadnt broke his jaw i'msure he'd be worth more but he's probably worth nothing right now. Not for sale anyhow

My old mare Bess big black traditional cob safe as houses 15.1hh bought as a 9yo for £500 sold her 5months later for £2000 this was in 03
 
I paid 1.5 k for my un-handled arab mare. She was since backed, went out to win at a couple of regional arab shows under saddle and qualified for the europeans inhand.

We put her in foal.... value was prob about 3.5 - 4k

she had colic surgery.........

value now probably just meat money, although as she's heavily in foal now, she may be worth a bit more at the moment, but no one in their right mind would buy a horse that has had colic surgery.

It's irrelevant though, as she's never going anywhere.
 
Poutu (Sadly no longer with us) - Bought as a 4 year old skinny ex racer straight off the track. Paid £1400 for her. If she didn't have her back problem she would have been worth about £6k when I was done with her. She would have done Elementary dressage with potential to go further and would jump anything, nice and calmly! But she was never for sale.

Buffy - Bought last September for £4400. Dutch Warmblood, 16.2ish. Very sharp but sensible. I could get about £5.5k for her now but she is so funny about who rides her it would be difficult to sell her. She isn't nasty and doesn't do anything per say, you just really need to know how to ride!! She is with me for life though and once we iron out the issues and I get her schooling up some more she will be worth double what I paid for her in a few years time.
 
Pony - £3,500 including tack, I reckon he's worth at least £4,500 now! He's one of those gold dust ponies, we paid a lot for him but definately worth it :D
 
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I paid £3000 for Ron, as a 10yo. He's now getting on for 17 :eek: and worth more....

He's 16.2h IDx (we think) and didn't/couldn't/wouldn't jump when I got him and had, so far as I could tell, ever been schooled. He now has problems with stopping himself from jumping, goes round BE100 no problem at all!! He's better schooled and an absolute gem. I paid over the odds for him at the time, but I'd want £6000 for him now, just to be able to buy something as good as he is.
 
In Nov 2007 I paid £1800 for our horse as a 3yo 15.2hh wind sucking TB filly 2 months out of racing.

The dealer I got her from told me she was retrained and suitable for a teen rider.I wouldn't like to call him a liar, or say that he saw me coming because ultimately a fool and their money are soon parted and I should have done more research. I fell for the line that there were loads of other people scheduled to see her, and there was no time for a hack. My daughter loved her immediately and I felt sorry for her because she was such a sad, skinny little thing.
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3.5 years and many challenges later she is 16.1 and blooming. But she still wind sucks and has to wear a collar a lot of the time. She has a reasonable amount of talent, has good flat work, jumps well but isn't easy to contain at competions and she is not easy to load. Realistically I'd say £800-£1000.
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And Jenhunt could you really really sell him and find something the same??? As at 17 he's going down hill and towards meat money. Animals at Reading Sales this week (youngstock) going for £20 if they were lucky.
 
Touchy, 15.2hh IDx TB mare cost £500 in 2001, now worth £2500ish

Sovereign, 17.1hh TB gelding cost £45,000 in 2001, cost me nowt, now worth PRICELESS!

Emerald, 16.3hh TB gelding cost £60,000 in 2005, cost me nowt, realistically worth nowt because he is a grumpy, quirky spacky legged odd bod!

My saddles all cost more than the horses that wear them ;)
 
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this was 2000-2003 ish so very different to now
but 7YO -10YO 13.2HH palamino gelding wesh X arab
bought him for £1700, sold him for £3000, although i think i got a very good deal for him as i had had him on loan for like 6 months or so before we bought him :)
but in my defence he did buck and bolt when i bought him and didnt when i sold him :) so definite improvement! :)
 
My ponies were bought for between £35-£500. With the exception of the oap who is 27 they are all worth more than what I paid for them, but it's irrelevant really cos none of them are going to be sold :)
 
We bought Archie for £500 as a 2 yr old, he is now 9, most horrific state, had weeping bald patches from the lice and plate rack was an understatement. But has turned into the most gorgeous little coblet ever he hunts and jumps, hacks out alone, never rear, bucks, bites etc! To me he is priceless!!!
 
8yr old Arab mare, 14.3hh. Well bred, previously used as broodmare and endurance horse. Great to hack out, handle etc but needed quite a lot of schooling. £950 in 2001.
I'm not sure how much she'd be worth now. She's never going to go to HOYS, but she's been schooled to a decent level, jumps and has done some local showing and dressage. She's also a very safe family horse (ridden by myself, my younger sister and my novice mum). But, she's also the wrong side of 15 and I know that has a knock-on effect on price. She isn't going anywhere though, so it doesn't really matter!
 
I paid £3250 for my 15.2hh IDxCob mare, she came with nothing, was a bit green but has been worth every penny. She's had her problems, but she's all I ever wanted in a horse so those don't matter. She is priceless to me, wouldn't swap her for the world :)
 
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