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Has anyone bought a horse cheaply and it ended up being the best in the world?!
Im always seeing horses for sale cheaply but wondering if any of them ever turn out to be the bargins they say?
Or have you ever spent a vast amount of money on a horse and it ended up being awful?
Do people really just want a quick sale or is there something more sinister lurking?
 
i bought a cracking little cob for £250 has turned out well, sharp in traffice but fabulous at shows etc.....so i would say she was a bargain
 
I think it works both ways, there are cheap horse's that are amazing, cheap horse's that are cheap for a reason, expensive horse's that are amazing and expensive horse's that a un rideable (by sane people
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) It's luck of the draw IMO, you go along and try your best to get a feel for the horse you are looking at and hope what you see turns out to be real. None of mine have been cheap but they were never OTT expensive either, all of them have had faults which have come good with time. So really what I'm saying is....I dunno
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Suppose it depends we have a great hunt/x country horse that we paid £300 as he was an un - rideable 6/7yr old - he is now the sweetest and most loving horse! And on the extreme we paid £6000 for our showjumper - he has also turned out to be a great hunter and worth every penny!! Can't believe how much of a bargain he was!
 
I think i picked my DWB at £1500 cause he was so kind and gentle in the stable, plus he jumped 3ft after 8 months in the field and moves wonderfully. Then again he has a grade 2 heart mumur, but i only really wanted a dressage pony! No hunting for us but suppose you have to think of why you want a horse, i would rather have him than a nasty top class GP level horse!
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I bought a very poor two year old for £150.

Ten years later he is beautiful, moves well, jumps for fun, has won dressage and many showing championships. He is still going strong and I hope my children will ride him one day.

There are bargains to be had, but you need to be prepared to gamble and put in the work!
 
I know a pony that was brought as a foal for £20. 10 years later he is ridden by a 11 year old, can EASILY pop 4ft (he once jumped a 5 bar gate from a slow trot whilst I was lunging him!
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), can hunt all day (even if hasn't been worked for two weeks before hand), great paces and is fast across country. He is an amazing little pony and definitely was a bargain!
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ETS He is only 12.1hh!
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I bought my project pony for 995 whe has the potential to be a grade A 138, or FEI BE event pony or dressage was the biggest bargain ever as worth about 5000+ in current :P
 
Paid £60 for our cleveland bay x fell at 6 months old - he was a real bargain
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I still think my gelding I paid £500 for was a bargain but some disagree with me
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Im now on the look out for another bargain, a youngster or a project horse...
 
I got given a horse for free! 18yo grade a showjumper - absolute schoolmaster, amazing horse and really taught me basically how to ride a 'real' horse - had him for over 2yrs and learnt so much from him, then semi-retired him to a lovely home! Bless him, RIP.
 
My friend bought a coloured horse a long time ago, long before coloured horses were fashionable, she wanted to do a bit of eventing and driving trials with him.
A very famous eventer at the time told her that he was far to good for her and bought him and evented him for a bit with the plan of taking him to the olympics and then was offered 5 figure sum for him.
 
I bought my little pony Bryn for £30 from Melton Mowbray sales, he was a yearling colt and a bit of a handful!
i got him gelded and when he was 4 I backed him and he went on loan to a fab PC family, they had him for 3 years and loved him to bits. He did showjumping, dressage and xc with them and came 2nd in the PC ODE. When they outgrew him I sold him to another wonderful PC family and he was in the PC team for the area showjumping and came 2nd, and he is also in the mounted games team. They also love him to bits!

Not bad for a cheapy!
 
I paid £1700 for a hackney x, sold him for £10000 last summer. He's now well on the way to being a top 148. Bargin of the century! Also paid £600 for a 13.2hh chestnut mare, who has earnt her money back about 6 times in the riding school now and is a real yard favourite and won't be going anywhere.
 
Going to Melton on sat as looking for cheap T/O but also a look a the ponies, luckily no room at our yard so we cant come home with any!!
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Plus OH wont let me
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I bought Grace for the equivalent of £800 10 years ago from Polish National Stud sale as an unbroken 5 yo, she has never been sick or sorry, is a bit of a neurotic cow, but has taken me to senior national SJ teams few times now:)
 
I bought my lad who was expensive at the time £1700 for a 3 year old welsh - he is amazing and will be chasing a hoys ticket this year, he also jumps like a stag and does dressage to novice level working upto elementary(don't compete if we have no chance of winning otherwise we'd forget the odd piece of lateral work that is untidy and just do elementary anyway). He also hacks alone and in company, best of all he's mine!
 
I paid £500 for my (barely) rideable 8 year old horse the following week got ofered £2000, and now 4years she's pretty much my perfect horse and we compeate BSJA. Def baragin. It's a trouble I can't find clothes that are the same
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Going to Melton on sat as looking for cheap T/O but also a look a the ponies, luckily no room at our yard so we cant come home with any!!
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Plus OH wont let me
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We went with the trailer to buy my friends daughter a nice jumping pony! And ended up coming back with him. The ironic thing is that he actually turned out to be exactly what she was looking for, just a few years too late!
 
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