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i brought my mare for decent money and im begining to feel stupied for paying for something the way people are going on about nothing selling.

she 14yrs 16hh
 
You can always torment yourself about anything you buy that you find out afterwards you might have got cheaper elsewhere. But if she is the one for you and you were happy to pay what you did for her, then forget the 'if only's' and enjoy your new horse. Pics please :)
 
Nice horses are still fetching good money. If she suits you then when you balance out what you may think you've paid 'over the odds' over the number of years you'll have her and what she'll cost to keep in those years it won't make much difference!
 
shes done novice eventing and medium dressage and shes worked for the riding for the disabled, but was to interesting for them but she was good for them just not perfect.

she cost 5000 with tack (wintec pro dressage saddle, bridle and 3 rugs).

shes teaching me to compete beyond riding school.

people just keep talking about horses that are cheaper and have done more.

altho as you all say i do love her and wouldnt change her for the world now. just maybe i should have bartered more or something

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last pic is my ten year old cousin having a go
 
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A horse is worth whatever a buyer is willing to pay. If you are happy with her forget about the price, she will be worth more than any amount of money could ever buy before too long.
 
If your horse is everything you wanted and you are happy, she is worth EVERY penny! You could have paid less for a different horse, but it could have turned out very differently!

Forget what you paid and enjoy your horse!!! :)
 
TBH I wouldn't beat yourself up over it, IMO you'll find different prices for different horses all the time and if she's exactly what you want with a personality to match in my book she's priceless and a horse for a lifetime.

Just enjoy her is what i'd say.
 
Don't listen to people.
Good horses that are priced right are still selling.
Don't forget, now more than ever, there is also a lot of **** on the market.
If you have got a nice well schooled, sound, Medium Dressage/Novice event horse then 5K is a bargin I reckon. This is the type I'll be looking for next year with a budget of around 10K

ETA: A horse that has competed to a reasonable level and yet is still snae and safe enough to take a novice rider like yourself is seriously hard to find - so really, do not dwell on how much you paid. Would you rather have spent 3K and come away with a lame nutter?
 
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ok im gonna take ur advice people and just forget about it as she is acsactly what i want and she is amazing.

bloomy hack it usually takes weeks to change my mind but o well i ovbiously already new the answer
 
Ditto the others :). You were happy with what you paid then and you love her, so the figure is irrelevant :cool:

If she hadn't done the things she had been advertised as doing, or had turned out to have been doped, etc. etc. etc., then yes, the price would have been questionable. From what I gather though that isn't the case, in which case, just enjoy your lass :D
 
If it helps any I would be asking more than that for my big mare if I were to sell her - because I know damn well i couldn't replace her easily.

She's similar stats to your mare but nothing like as pretty. I think you should be very pleased you have got her for a good price:)

Sure you will hear people say that they paid lots less for the same horse - but yours does exactly what you want and if you listen to the people who bought the cheapies there is usually a very good reason WHY they were cheap. Good horses are still making money.
 
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If it helps any I would be asking more than that for my big mare if I were to sell her - because I know damn well i couldn't replace her easily.

She's similar stats to your mare but nothing like as pretty. I think you should be very pleased you have got her for a good price:)

Sure you will hear people say that they paid lots less for the same horse - but yours does exactly what you want and if you listen to the people who bought the cheapies there is usually a very good reason WHY they were cheap. Good horses are still making money.
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this does help
 
ihatework said:
Don't listen to people.
Good horses that are priced right are still selling.
Don't forget, now more than ever, there is also a lot of **** on the market.
If you have got a nice well schooled, sound, Medium Dressage/Novice event horse then 5K is a bargin I reckon. This is the type I'll be looking for next year with a budget of around 10K

ETA: A horse that has competed to a reasonable level and yet is still snae and safe enough to take a novice rider like yourself is seriously hard to find - so really, do not dwell on how much you paid. Would you rather have spent 3K and come away with a lame nutter?
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thanks for your comment. im not a novice rider btw just a novice owner. you make a good point tho
 
not being funny but my threads just been delted!!!......

and im asking exactly the same thing.......


not having ago OP but TFC or whichever mod it was UNFAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
jack9 said:
not being funny but my threads just been delted!!!......

and im asking exactly the same thing.......


not having ago OP but TFC or whichever mod it was UNFAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i dont understand what your saying and i dont no why your threads been deleted, it hasnt got anything to do with me
 
technically I suppose I paid over the odds for Ron - I paid £3k for a 16.2hh gelding with no original passport, just one that was made up when the law came in. He was about 10 (his passport says he's 2 years younger than the vet and dentist think his teeth say he is) and had only ever hunted, never seen coloured poles, wouldn't jump and you couldn't clip. My instructor said he'd never jump more than 3 foot, my farrier said his feet were dreadful and would take years to sort out.

5 years on, and all that has changed. He's evented up to BE100 (then his lack of schooling on the flat lets him down) and not had any jumping penalties in 2 years. He still lives for his hunting, and tbh I'd never change that as so do I, but he'll jump anything and everything, including 5 bar gates, hedges etc and he'd rather go first! His feet did take a while to sort, but they weren't bad feet, just badly done, and now he uses himself properly he doesn't remove shoes anymore.

And, he's a wonderful, kind, honest, gentle horse. He's only a plod if that's what you want, but if you want a buzzy cob he'll do that too. He safe enough that my friend's 9yo (and small with it) daughter hopped on to cool him off after a lesson one day and ended up popping some little fences on him. He was totally confused as her legs barely came past the saddle, and would only trot, but he was so sweet with her!

I'd happily pay twice that for him now, so i'd consider £3k a bargain!

it's not what you pay that counts but how happy you make each other!
 
thanks faracat i was worried there

jenhunt: i think i agree i hope we continue to get on as well as we have been doing.



the reason for the thread was sort of that the idea had been niggling in the back of my head and i just wanted to give myself more confidence to believe what i did was right,

its brilliant to hear everybody elses opinions
 
madeline i wasnt having a go at you - i was just stating why som eother miserable sod asked for my thread to be deleted.... yet left yours...
 
jack9 said:
madeline i wasnt having a go at you - i was just stating why som eother miserable sod asked for my thread to be deleted.... yet left yours...
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its ok i was just confused. it does seem a bit rude really for them to delete yours. i hope my post helped u anyway
 
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