Dressage Peeps - price query!

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OK so its represented GB etc but its a gelding and so no breeding potential/future income potential, you also dont win money in dressage like you can SJing - is this kind of price normal in the dressage world?
 
I take it that's Orvieto? Saw it in the mag earlier! Seems to me that although dressage is the least well-rewarded in terms of prize money of the 3 main disciplines it is the one where the horses cost the most!
 
HELL NO!! Its on the front Classified page in H&H this week and I was
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Did say to J when he got home "Ohhhh found a horse - called Orvieto" (we went there on holiday last year you see) He was "Oh thats cool" then I named the price, he about turned and didnt even look at the ad hehe!!
 
Yep, think its the norm, i went to school with someone who now represents GB at young rider level. Apparently his parents remortgaged their business a riding school/livery yard to fund his first grand prix horse, plus they sold his top dressage pony for £200,000!
 
Oh, you found Otto’s advert, NOT!

The thing is there are people out there where money is no object so I’m sure he will sell! He is a lovely horsey, there is no doubting that!
 
Well if Daddy has the money and you're a young rider, what is £85k for your little girl
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(btw my dad wouldn't give me 85p let alone £85k!
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Jumping ponies with european medals go for a great deal more than that. I know of showjumpers who are for sale for in excess of £80000 who have not jumped internationally. Top horses in whatever discipline fetch amazing sums of money even relatively novice ones.
 
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Yes I know how much SJers go for, but there is a LOT more prize money in SJing hence the question - I mean you get pretty much zero return in dressage do you not?

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I should say weezy, Bar won a Premier League Grand Prix on Shayen and her prize money was..................£150
 
My trianer paid a lot for her dressage horse. Unfortunately dressage horses to appear to be more money - I thought it was alot considering it was 12!
 
To be honest, its not that unusual to be paying that much for the dressage horses
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Im based on a dressage yard and have seen some of the crazy amounts of money exchanging hands for either good, proven advanced level horses or youngsters from abroad with the potential to work at that level (including a whopping £75,000 paid this week for a 5 year old working at medium level).

Given his record, I actually dont think he's too bad in comparison with some ive seen. That being said, id also question (like someone else has) as to why he's not been sold without the need for advertising. A lot of the better horses switch hands without much more than a whisper on the grapevine.
 
There was one very similar in for £70k last week. That was also a young rider horse. It made me chuckle as a few years back my instructor beat her on her CBxTB.
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Unfortunatly to buy a horse that will get you onto the YR teams costs a hell of a lot of money.
 
It's a possible young rider ride then name your price.

Dressage a lot of very wealthy patrons or wives with wealthy husbands so yes they can ask and even get that kind of money.

Makes my hopes of finding a new cheep one when the insurance pays out even more unlikley.
 
i did shudder at the price! and seeing as hes a gelding, and hes not getting any younger - i know hes not old but imo i wouldnt by a horse that age if i wanted to compete it, its also at the top of its game basically, so why buy one right at the top? (this is my view, and even if i had that money i wouldnt buy him for those reasons)

However im not slating him in anyway AT ALL, i think hes gorgeous and is going o be a fab horse for a YR to compete on.
 
Absolutely agree with you! IMO the top horses go through word of mouth.

Don't know if you remember Manitu but he belonged to an acquaintance of mine. they bought him off the Edmonds for a lot more than this horse but again by word of mouth.

Seems slightly cheap to me. Have just left a yard where someone has arrived with a 4 yr old unproven prived at £60k - more money than sense, and she is having to pay for it to be professionally brought on as she agrees she can't ride it!. (I know a little jealous).
 
Madness!! He could break down next week!!

If I had a horse like that I wouldn't dare do anything with it - just wrap it in cotton wool and look at it proudly!!

Do you think a teenager would actually get more satisfaction riding that than they would doing well at a lower level on a home-produced ordinary horse?

Don't think I really 'get' dressage.
 
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