Blimey - how scarey!

[Parkranger]

Just totting up what the boy costs me a month......needs to get shoes back on as after 4 weeks he's still so footsore and fitness is suffering due to lack of work! I could perservere but our lack of easily accessible off road hacking just isn't going to allow it I don't think.

Need to get him sedated first couple of times so that's another £70 odd on top of farrier bill.....so £600 a month he's costing me for the next couple of months....omg

That doesn't include the adhoc bits I buy for him......actually that's not including lessons at £16 a week.

very scarey when you add it all up! x

off for a stiff drink me thinks

 

[PaddyMonty]

I found it best not to do the maths.

 

[Parkranger]

Now you tell me!

 

[Capriole]

wow! have you enough left to buy a stiff drink after all that!

 

[Parkranger]

No! Can someone please buy me one!

 

[PaddyMonty]

Not me. We worked out that we spend around £1200 on the horses when we include competing, training and running the lorry. Hence why we no longer do the maths.

Wouldn't have it any other way though

 

[Capriole]

i never do the maths, it hurts my head

 

[Dogbetty141]

I never do maths just wonder where my money has gone when it gets near to to pay and Im skint 2 days after I get paid lol.

I need a stiff drink too could somone lend me some money lol.

xx

 

[TGM]

Have you thought of using hoof boots on him? I know a lot of barefoot people swear by them - not used them myself though. They are not cheap but if you are going to have to pay to have him sedated on a regular basis it might be worth it.

 

[melv1lle]

You should try keeping a horse near London! I moved from Cheshire to central London this year and now keep my horse in a very nice livery yard in Berkshire. But my monthly costs have gone from about £350 a month to around £700! Its a good thing it takes me so long to drive out to him in the evenings cos it means I get to have no social life so have nothing else to spend my money on

 

[Parkranger]

Yeah I'm in Surrey so suffer the enevitable london horse tax!!

 

[melv1lle]

The irony of the whole thing is that as he was off to the meat man when I got him he actually cost me less to buy than he now does to look after each month! But I love him very much so he is worth it

I have already started to think up the list of pointless stuff that I really need to buy when I get to the heaven that is the Olympia show shopping village...

 

[Parkranger]

Tell me about it - ended up with a horse that cost me a fortune but has turned out to be a nightmare!

Oh well, lucky for him he's a sweetie... x

 

[melv1lle]

Well he would of made rubbish dog food anyway as he was all skin and bone when he came off the track (although he is considerably rounder now

) ...

 

[Parkranger]

blimey - got any pics of him now? how I love an ex racer!

 

[melv1lle]

Yes lots (I am a very proud mother) - they are all on my blog which is in my signature. My boyfriend thinks I am too sad for words but my mother likes to read it so I keep it up to date

I will be updating it again soon to show how we have progressed with the jumping.

So how come your horse is a nightmare? I think I remember seeing your name on the forum a month or so ago linked to a new horse but I can't remember what the threads were about??

 

[Parkranger]

He looks fantastic - such a credit to your hard work!

The photo of you jumping made me spit coffee onto my keyboard - we were EXACTLY the same a few months ago when we first started - makes me sure that Ty was a flatracer! haa haa

He really does look great though........ x

 

[Parkranger]

Sorry - I brought him 6 months ago, had him 5 stage vetted - turns out a month later that he's blind in one eye!

Also had alot of issues on the ground with him as I'd been out of riding for 15 years and brought myself a TB - doh.....we've worked through things though and I'm so much more confident than I think I'd be if I'd have gone for the easy option (although no horse is an easy option I know!) He's a typical TB - very loving but needs to know who's boss - would do anything for me but does play up for other people.....

x

 

[melv1lle]

I am glad to hear I am not the only loon who after not owning a horse for 14 years (since I left home) decided to take on a TB and an ex-racer at that! I am a complete chicken as well but you are right - when these kind of horses have their hearts in the right place then it is amazing how much you can learn. I really think I have come on more in my riding in the last 12 months I have owned him than I ever did before.

 

[Parkranger]

That's a bit spookey that we both did the same thing! So glad I went for a TB though...... x

 

[melv1lle]

Well you know what they say about great minds and all that

 

[truffles]

yep - when bill came, I was expecting it to be high but NOT over 1K!!! I gave it to parents and LEGGED IT.