Did you find a youngster with potential to event on a budget!!??! If so,where/ideas!?

Ive sent you PM with the details of where mine came from i know both coloureds are for sale and the 2 bays in the background which are rising 3 i think!! Think if i remember correctly the 2 bays are both KWPN. My girl is the coloured in the background to the right!!brought her home last week Really nice genuine horsey people aswell.. defo agree with the satisfaction of bringing them on yourself. Im looking forward to 10 years time when i can turn round and say i produced this.. :) xxx
 
Well, i was in a similar position last year as my horse (now 20) I was thinking may at some stage not be up to competing and we don't really do much more than 95cm SJing/XC courses now although he's still up for it. Thought I'd look for a 2/3 yo with a view to bringing it on slowly and retiring mine steadily and then getting out and about starting from the grass roots level again.

Well, 2 and 3 yos were fairly expensive - the ones my eye was drawn to anyway. I ended up with a 15.1hh 15mth old coloured gelding, TB x something! He is just past yo now and is about 15.3hh and by all accounts certainly looks to have the build for SJing / eventing. I am looking forward to bringing him on and seeing how he goes. I would love to put him in a BYEH class when he's 4 but we'll see how he goes.

He cost me under £1000 and I hope (fingers crossed) that turns out to be a pretty good bargain if he turns his hoof to what I want!
 
I brought a ex racer for £100, and he has proved to be the best horse ive ever had, he has his quirks though!
i got him when he had just turned 4, was very lucky as passed a full vetting and has clean legs, and now at 5 he is starting cross country and proving to be very good at it!
its not been a easy road, but im more than pleased with my little bargain and hope to have him affiliated by the end of this year! yes bargains can be found and with the right riding and tution you can end up with a very succesful horse!
 
Personally if you can cope with an ex-racer and not fussed about it being a TB I'd go down that route. Might take a while to find the one you want, but contact the yards, the rehoming charities or go to the sales to find one. If you want some back up support then the charities are a good place to start, if you're confident on your own ability to bring it on then go for it.

I have a friend who brings very nice quality ones over from ireland that have proved too slow for as little as £500 and is selling them on with huge potential as intermediate eventers and above for a lot more. Most of them a well handled (if a little stressy to start with as they adjust to life) but in the right hands can be lovely horses.


It's very sad that they're going so cheaply but there just isn't the market for them at the moment. You'll potentially pay a lot more for another breed.

PS - ETA there is a reason why event horses have a lot of TB in them... they are built for the job, careful, scopey and fast. WB's are okay if they have a lot of TB in them and there was a bit of a fashion for them at one point, but there has been a trend at the top to go back towards more TB lines for eventing. Get a good one and you have a friend for life.

Good luck x
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top