Does everyone have a price????

I turned down £10k for my, at the time, 14 yr old mare. I kept her, bred a foal from her, helped her foal down.

I brought her back into work, then she damaged herself in the field. I'm now aware shes 17 yrs old, not really worth a penny to anyone else as shes older, has had an injury, however shes worth everything to me so I'm happy.
 
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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.

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For me, exactly this.
 
I had 2 rediculous offers for my TB many years ago now, i turned both down. He's now nearly 25yo retired & im still glad i didnt ever sell him no matter how much of a Victor Meldrew he is in his old age lol.

However i did turn down an offer on my IDxTB & i really should of sold, we never had that great bond & it was a fab offer & home with an FBHS.
However at 12yo found he had heart probs & he is now also retired.

My WB if someone had of offered money & good home 3 1/2 years ago when he was a nightmare then i may of sold.
However now there is no way on earth i could be without him & i would turn down a stupid amount to keep him (not that anyone has ever made any offer on him).
He is my horse of a lifetime & is extremely talented shows me more every time i ride him, but we have a mega bond which makes a huge differance for me.
 
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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.

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That is so true about it being a "once in a lifetime" thing. I was offered silly money for William but it wasn't silly enough to buy me a house. He'd just qualified for four star so to me that was a good enough reason to keep him.
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I never regretted my decision and he taught me so much in our 17 years together.

As for my current gang: Hector needs a quieter life so he's looking for a new home anyway
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, I doubt I could sell HH as he is so much fun (I'd let Mary ride him though
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) and as I haven't forgiven Jupiter for breaking my arm, he'd definitely be on the Transfer List.
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AutumnRose: I think you were right to say no: he is just what you want and he suits you down to the ground, and I know another blue and white pony owner who'd have done exactly the same.
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Yes, everything is for sale at the right price. But I wouldnt sell to someone I dislikes and distrusted, no matter how much they offered.

The ones I would rather keep I dont advertise, but if the right buyer came along then I would sell them.
 
Yes, everything has a price, they go lame otherwise! I was asked very shortly after I bought F if I would sell him by a sj dealer, but he wasn't offering a huge amount and I told him that this horse was going to the olympics... That didn't quite happen, but he did go a long way and gave me the confidence to ride not such awesome jumpers later on at the same level. I was asked a couple of months ago if I'd sell William to a junior, just before he went 3*, but again not a vast amount of money, about 18k, and I knew that the people asking would be making at least that on top, so I turned them down flat.
 
My first horse ben was a one in a million he started me eventing when I knew nothing (not that I do now!!), after his injury I decided not to compete him, so he is out on loan although the deal is I can and do ride him. I now have MG and low and behold he is another one in a million. So given that I have already had my one in a million horse twice, I would not part with him however much was offered, 'cause I wouldn't hold out to finding a one in a million again!!!
 
With the level I am at now, yes, I would take a serious offer on my horse. He's taught me a lot but then again horses at my level are easy enough to find, and I produced this one so I could do it again. If he takes me to being competitive at Intermediate, or less realistically advanced, then no, I wouldn't sell as I think that those horses are less easily found. But if I was offered enough cash to buy a decent lorry and a nice youngster, then yes, I'd take it I think.

Of course until one is in the situation, it is impossible to say for sure what you'd do!
 
I felt compelled to reply to this thread!

When I got Ellie, it had been the hardest year of my life. I lost my previous horse in very tragic circumstances, and shortly afterwards my Dad walked out. Ellie, when we found her, was my 'plaster' - she made everything better. We paid £3000 for her as a 5 year old, but because we gelled so quickly we made a lot of progress in a short time. About 9 months after getting her, we were offered £12,000 for her at a show - and this came at a time when we had just lost our house and were living off Iceland meals - my Nan paid for Ellie's keep just to make sure I didnt lose her. £12,000 would have gone an awful long way for us at that time, but I wouldnt have dreamed of selling her, and it would never have occurred to Mum to ask me to.

So no, to me, not every horse has its price. Some are just priceless
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And if you love your boy and you dont want to sell him, dont do it.
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Difficult question as someone would have to offer me a lot more than he is worth on paper for me to consider it as he is exactly what I want. If someone offered silly money I'd want to know why and if I was happy with the reason and I beleived he would be well cared for I'd sell.

The thing is people don't generally go round offering alot more money than the horse is worth I suppose you could say I would never sell!
 
I was offerred £3k in August this year for our 22 year old show cob Shiney by a showing producer - he said he could sell him all day long for between £5k & £6k.. needless to say Shiney is still with us and will be showing at county next year.

Shortly after buying Mick I was offered more than twice what i paid for him.. He is in the field too with Shiney.
 
yes. as soon as we get offers for ours (20k+) they go whether i like it or not. which i HATE but its the only way to support them so we can keep going. rubbish!
 
i didnt spend very much on the baby pony, but he is everything i wanted and more, and i think id have to spend over £15k to get something that would be as nice, if i sold him, so it would have to be a fairly serious offer, over £30k to get me to part with him-he's sweet and (thus far) sound, which is worth a hell of a lot i feel.
 
Without a doubt all of ours would go at the right price - except Finn
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He is too old to move onto pastures new and we have turned down sensible offers for him now word is out I am pregnant.

We were talking the other day about at what price would we let Blitz or Diva go. When we bought Blitz we had several people try and buy him unseen on his grading results and pedigree alone.

Mr Worried wanted substantially more for Blitz than I wanted for Diva though!
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yep, Millie and Vinnie would both be sold for the right price.

Pilfer no, but he is 16 next year and i feel i owe it to him to assure his retirement as he has done so much for me.

the other 2 are youngsters with plenty of potential and both have a price.
 
i think yes but it would have to be way over the market value and to the right home...V was bought to bring on and maybe sell, maybe keep depending on how far he's going to take me...i really really like him and think he'll be really special but if someone affered me say 25k i really couldn't turn it down...
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I turned down a lady who every time I saw her whilst riding my horse, she kept asking me to sell him to her. I said no as although he was a very green 5 yo, I was very excited about his prospects. Needless to say he was jinxed for most of his life from then onwards and after a fractured leg and many minor injuries I retired him aged 12 after he went completely nuts to ride. I still have him as he is definitely a family pet now but there are many many many times I'd wish I'd taken the money. (especially yesterday when he attempted to jump over a 7 bar gate out of the yard and somersaulted over it instead
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No not all, everything IMO does have a price BUT it's what limit you have

Some time ago i was offer a 15k for my little eventer after a learning curve season. I have to say i was very, very tempted, BUT i'm so glad i said NO. As this season he really blossom
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and it's nice to think someone else spotted his potential, aswell
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And now, it would now have to be blank cheque even for me to think about it
 
Hm, we were offered £10k for Blue a couple of years ago.... funny enough he's still with us
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Sometimes i think maybe we should have sold him then but then i think what are the chances of finding another one like him?? Who does pretty much everything i want him to and has a nice temperment and such a willingness to learn
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even if he is a funny shape
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I *think* before Song did his leg i could have sold him easliy to someone who my trainer teachs for 18k but like a lot of other people said i wouldnt sell him as to me he has taught me everything hes taken me from 2ft6 SJing when he was 5 and i was 16 just coming back from breaking my leg in a nasty XC accident on a previous horse to going clear Int & 3 * XCs!! Hes never going to be a world beater but hes such an honest chap that always tries so hard!

Buster on the other hand 10k i think was the price i wanted after this season but hes not worth that much to anyone else but me - we will have to see after this season thou - he might be a seller if hes going to be a nice PN horse for someone but if hes going to be good he may well be my next horse after song!!

So not really an answer to your question AR but a very interesting one to think about!!
 
Right now I don' t have a realistic price for my new boy. Of course if someone offered up wards of £50k then I just couldn't say no. I have other things that need doing so would be stupid. But if someone offered me 3 or 4x what I paid then no
 
Don't know how I missed this one as it's quite relevant to me atm
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Back in the summer, just after Burgie 1*, a well known trainer
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rang me and said he had someone who wanted to buy T and would give me good money. I said no thanks, didn't ask him the price as I didn't want to get tempted
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T has had a difficult autumn and I have been thinking about selling him. When I saw said trainer recently over a few bevvies I asked him what money had been on offer - he said 40K
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As things have turned out, I can't decide how I feel... Certainly I SHOULD have sold him for that money, but I'm not sure I WOULD have done... More recently I've marketed him slightly half-heartedly at considerably less. He sold once then they pulled out - as the next people tried him I realised I really didn't want to sell him - he must have known as he knocked down just about every fence they put up!!! So decision made, he's staying and I feel very good about it
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I am a great believer in fate with regard to horses - if they are meant to be with you they will be... Saying that, if I look back I have certainly kept more horses I should have sold than the other way round
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sounds harsh and tbh i would never part with connor however if someone offered me a lot of money even though i did not think he would ever reach that much then i have to say i would be tempted but only if i was in need of some money otherwise no, and it would have to be to a amazing home.
saying that though in a few years on we might have to sell connor because of me moving out and i am the only one that can ride him
but i think most people do have a price but it would have to be unrealistically more than that horse/pony is worth
just my opinion
 
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