Does everyone have a price????

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Well bit of an odd post but this week we had a livery leave and offer me a lot of money for the blue pony.

Now i might be a bit stupid but there isn't much i'd take for him as i really and genuinely think he is my perfect horse!!!! Plus their reasons for wanting to buy were slightly misguided but still........

So my wonderings this evening are do you all have a price??? Even for your perfect horse???? Bearing in mind i'm saving for a house and have a wedding to pay for next year, perhaps i was stupid not to take the money offered........he could do something in field tomorrow and be worth nothing i know!!!!

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Am i very stupid??!?!?!?!??!
 
Depends on the horse!

Blaze to me is priceless, for a couple of reasons. Firstly he is coming back from an injury and so couldnt bring myself to sell him in the indefinate future as would always worry about his feet! Secondly I bought him to keep, and dont see him as a selling on horse. If someone offered me 10k for him I wouldnt take it (was offered that before his injury and didint even consider it, and I am fairly broke LOL)


Jazz is a different matter, she was bought with the idea of moving up the levels and being seriously competitive, if someone offered me decent money for her then I would take it. However I do think I got a bargain with her and would be wanting a fair amount for her....
 
yes always.... the number of times I've heard of someone turn down stupid amounts of money for a horse and have it go wrong within a very short time afterwards.... tempting fate!!

have done it three times for way more than each horse was worth - one went to to do fantastic things, one went to the States, the 3rd went to a connection of the Whitakers and never jumped competively again....
 
I think they do unless you are very rich... or they would for me!!

My mum used to have a wonderful horse called Henry. A very wealthy lady in our hunt was having a hard time with her horse one day and wanted my dad to get on it and see if he could sort it out. My dads horse was a nutter though so mum ended up swapping with her. Next thing this lady called up and offered 10k for him (which 15 years ago seemed a lot!!) Mum didn't want to part with him but did, and the lady even kept him with us but mum still cried for months!!!

It didn't really work out with Henry and the lady - she ended up giving him to her friend and he now has a wonderful home and looks brilliant for his age. Mum went on to get a equally fab horse but he died in a car accident.
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Then she got Caffrey who is the best.. so it has kind of worked out in the end... despite all the crying!
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Couldn't sell my current mare as she won't take a step for anyone else!!
WAs offered 25k for previous sj gelding, turned cash down, horse went lame big time and was eventually pts with serious foot issues.
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Think I would have to say yes, but it would be very difficult to part with any of them, if we think about selling we can always justify them all staying, so it would have to be mega bucks! especially for the one we have, believed to be by Gribaldi
 
Interesting responses...........i have some sensible brain cells but perhaps what i was offered wasnt enough....even though it was about twice what i think he'd be worth on open market.

Perhaps it's a bit about the life i know he'd have with them and i'd have to watch it.........
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Definitely!!!!

Badger certainly has a price ATM but if someone offered me 10x that, if they weren't right for him... then they wouldn't get him!

I think that's why my mum was so upset - after a matter of weeks this lady had him stopping out hunting and he was never quite the same after.... in a sense she did ruin him really. But he has a home know where he's not expected go go out and jump huge stuff... so everything is ok.
 
For Andy, Percy, Miracle, Yes, I'd sell them for the right amount of money but Millie and Tam are mine, and I'd never sell them for different reasons.

Millie was the best thing that ever happened to me, and is a once in a lifetime pony!

And Tam, well, I'm pretty sure she'll be a once in a lifetime horse, and I want to be the person that finds that out!
 
Cheeky is priceless (read worthless) because he's done 4 years of putting up with me and all my poor riding, scared moments and rounds where I've just sat holding the mane. If someone offered any money for him, I'd say no because he's worth too much to me.
 
I am not so sentimental especially at the level I am competing as tonnes more in the sea who would easily do what I want and probably more. If someone offered me amazing money then I would take it.
I was offered great money in the hunting field for mine and did not take it as the horse was going so well at the time. It has now missed 1 1/2 seasons and is now back doing 2'6. Sods law!
If I had an advanced horse who was taking me up the grades easily then I would be more reticent as they are rare!
 
My [ very poor] friend bought a foal from Stow Fair and called him Sorrow , at the age of about 10 my daughter started to ride him , he was an amazing jumper[ horse on right in siggie]. My friend was completely broke and one day a dealer had some Arab [hope that is not racist] people with him who wanted a show jumper for their son, she was asked to name her price but said 'No'.
I on the other hand had a super horse who I bought as a 4 year old, when he was 10 I rode him for a judges exam and later that night I had a phone call offering me quite a lot of money for him. I sold him as my husband had been out of work for ages and Claire was only about 5 and we had no money. He was sold on again and had a great life but I still cry when I think of him and hope Claire doesn't ever have to sell Rafi.
 
It is an interesting question, we all know that today our horses could be worth a fortune and tomorrow nothing. I guess a lot depends on the situation you are in, if you are a pro who makes your living from horses then most horses will have a price. Some may decide that the horse is going to such a level that the publicity and increased reputation is worth turning down an offer but this is rare when the harsh financial realities hit home.
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For me as an amateur I have heard some etremely silly money mentioned
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but what do I want to do? I want to compete as high up the tree as I can. I could sell Sarnie and mprove where I live but would be very unlikely to have the experiences I am having now or the enjoyment of competing against the top competitors - it is a once in a lifetime thing
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. What would I do with the money try and find another horse as good and that goes for me which would be virtiually impossible, I am aware it could all be over tomorrow but hopefully in that case I have a fabulous brood mare and she owes me nothing.

Saying all that I guess even for me there is a price but realistically I don't think anyone will pay the 500k
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When I was in the situation I didn't take the money.
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BUT I figured at the time it would take pretty much the same amount of money to buy a horse of the same calibre at the same level so I wasn't really going to gain in the end. Sure, I could have brought another horse along but for some reason I wasn't THAT naive and realised it was more the horse and the specific situation than my wonderfullness.
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It worked out not quite in the way I envisaged but perhaps ever better - I dreamed of the horse taking me to the Olympics but that didn't pan out, in part because I made other decisions in his interests later. In the end though, he was enough of an advertisement for me to work with horses successfully in the way that interests me most and was more attainable for me than Olympic dreams. And he's still being ridden - at 27! - and has done a great deal for other people as well. I'm proud of him and proud of the life I've been able to give him.

But I've seen the other sides of it, too. A friend sold his promising GP jumper just before an Olympics to fund a very nice farm. He has a good business on a property he owns, which wouldn't have been likely otherwise. But I think he always wonders "what if . . ."

I rode a horse for a friend that was the last foal she bred and the one she never wanted to part with. In the end the mare funded a down payment on a house for my friend - who was in desperate need at the time - and went to a good home, where we still know what she's up to. It was painful but also a really special thing to be involved in.

I think it's very personal and depends a lot on how you see riding and horses. I've never had a problem selling any horse except the first, although there are some I still miss. What pains me much more is finding out their lives didn't work out as I might have hoped.

Dick Francis wrote something about riding sale horse when he was a kid, to the effect that at first he missed the good ones because he liked riding them, but as he went on he was more sorry to see the "works in progress" go down the road because he knew he could have done more for them and worried how they'd get on. I would say that's how I feel about it now.
 
Really interesting!!!!!

I would imagine everyone has an ultimate price, obviously 50K could be impossible to refuse but clearly B is worth much less than that.

I tend to think that as long as you accept what you think your horse is worth and therefore what you could loose you can't go far wrong. For me if B went lame in field tomorrow and wasn't ever right again i would be devastated but the money i'd lost would not cross my mind.
 
Depends on the horse and the level. Lucky at the moment would go for the right money. She was brought as a question mark to whether she would be a keeper or a seller, and she is being produced (albeit carefully!) in a way that I hope would make her sellable.

However, if 8 yrs down the line she is still with me and going advanced, having been my "horse of a lifetime" then I would be much less likely to sell
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If it was a life changing amount of money eg enough to buy a farm and I knew he was going to a good home with the option to buy back should they wish to sell or for him to come back to me for his retirement then yes but I think that is very unlikely to happen so thankfully I will not be put in the position of making a difficult decision!
 
No.
Many years ago I did turn down a name your price offer for my horse. He is still with me aged 22 and has never had an unsound day in his life. The way I looked at it was he had cost me peanuts and was a super horse for me that gave me priceless moments and could not be replaced in my affections.
I now have a youngster too and find it hard to think of a price I would part with him for as he ticks all the boxes for what I want. My horses are friends to me rather than commodities. I have sold some of course but the ones I really click with tend to stay.
 
No. My horses have all been worth more to me than market value and if anyone offered me crazy money for any of them I'd question their intelligence too much to let them have any of my horses.
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I went for a riding lesson a few years ago and was offered twice the value for my little Welsh cob by a kids granmother. I said no way. I scraped every penny to buy her when no-one else wanted her and then some rich granny wanted to buy the finished improved version. Sorry but money can't buy everything. I have no money but I have my dream horse IMO.
 
it depends on the horse....and what they meant to me. Monty i would NEVER sell, no matter how much money someone offered (but i suppose he was my first horse, and i have a special nond with him)...bugsy i think it would take a LOT of money, but i dont know if i would be able to part with him tbh
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Dani i could part with, but i havent really got a bond with him yet..

totally depends on the horse really..but i think it also depends on your situation...if you are a pro or a dealer, then everything will hav a price, but an amateur who has maybe one or two horses maybe not...because they might have a stronger bond with their horses possibly?

its a tough question really
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I could have had 12k for my mare who was at the time relatively green and unproven. I didn't/ wouldn't sell her and she has since had an injury which led to me handing/giving her to her loaner as they offered her a permanent home regardless of whether she ever comes 100% right or not.

This offer came a few years ago, before horse prices were at their peak. Probably should have taken it, but i suppose it is irrelevant now.
 
No, have had two huge offers (one an open cheque from someone I knew could more than afford a massive sum for my JA pony, as he then paid house money for two new ones for his daughter to compete on), the other through the BSJA to my father who at the time was the registered owner, as I had turned down an offer previously, but both meant far too much too me and had got me to where was and they were very much part of the family, cost little but their hearts and spirits, well you cant put a price on that, they never owed me a penny.

There are some that are always too special, but I am not in it to make money, nor a professional (just to see how far I could go) and have been lucky enough to stumble upon a couple of very good buys, both stayed until they died and I wouldnt have had it any other way.
 
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