Following on from below........the price of horses

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I know that a horse is worth whatever someone will pay for it.......however I just can't get my head around the price of horses (not referring to you Nobbster, I'm sure your both is a corker....just got me thinking).

There is a horse in my field, a well marked traditional. He is a handsome chap, evenly marked with lots of feather. However, he is 10 years old and has barely done a thing. I believe he was broken a while back but this was done quickly and he was soon left in the field again. His owner rode him once last summer after 3 years and he was a good boy but then left him again.

Now he is for sale.................for £3800
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I don't get it. He is a nice chap, but do people really pay that much money.

Now my girl cost me nothing, £1 for legal purposes. She has one eye and is not a novice ride since she is VERY fizzy, however she has amazing brakes and is in a happy mouth snaffle. She is perfect to load, clip, shoe...........generally manhandle
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She jumps happily up to 3 foot, could go higher with a better jockey. Has done camp, holidays, played horseball and polocrosse to a high level, brilliant at gymkhana and has jumped round every sponsored ride in the south east. She is a bold, well mannered hunter....................yet her old owner said that no-one would pay money for her
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I don't get it! I don't mind that no-one wants my ponies, that means that I got them for free
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There was another post for an unbroken 13.2 coloured cob for nearly 3 grand the other day...........I mean, seriously! Do people actually pay these prices.

Just thinking aloud...........
 
i'v personally never paid more than £1300 for a horse (mainly youngsters or nutters) and then i just made them into what i wanted.
My ex boss bought a beautiful wee coloured 5yr old mare about 14.3hh for a grand, his daughter reschooled and competed her in bsja and a yr later sold her for 9.5k!! i thought it was madness but the woman buying her seemed to think it was a reasonable price, so i guess they are worth as much as someone is willing to pay. x
 
Coloureds do tend to sell for more as are very fashionable at the moment... but in current market even coloureds are not selling at what they were. So I think they may have a problem.

Nobbster is a friend her coloured is a lovely boy
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People do seem to be paying silly money for patches on their horses! The same horse in a boring brown would cost half the price.

Which is fine by me - I have a nicely marked skewbald that I may well sell on in a couple of years........
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I've not paid more than about £1500 for any of mine.....even the young highland (unregistered) was only a grand....but I suppose he's worth much more now he's filled out and been out and about winning, but I would never part with him.

I think horses are what you make them. A large price tag doesnt make them any better, especially at the lower levels and even more so when they are unproved/green etc.

I like buying the scruffy-looking pony and bringing it on and turning it into something a bit special.
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Kallibear- I do like the look of Piper, I'm fussy when it comes to coloureds/traditional but have to say he's a real eye catcher- looks very laid back?
But yes, you could find the same horse but different colour and it would often be half the price!
 
i think i would buy something as a project for a rwasonable price, rather than pay a fortune. poppymoo is right to say a horse is what you make it.
It's much more rewarding to see the "before and after" on a young, green or total nutter that you have worked hard with and grown to know and love with all their little quirks and habbits.
 
I used to have a suffolk punch mare that was a fab little horse. She stood about 15.2hh, and was 5yo - she was incredibly green in the school (did walk/trot in a nice outline, liked to have a buck in canter and still unbalanced). However, she was a good hunter, and would go out all day, stand stock still when she had to etc. She was 'spotted' out hunting, and I was handed a blank cheque. She was up for sale anyway, but this guy was desperate for a Suffolk Punch mare, and one that hunted was even better. He paid £6000 for her (when he handed the cheque to me he said 'put what you want' - I had her advertised for £5750 so he got her for £6k with her tack). If she hadn't been a Suffolk, with that level of schooling, she probably would have been worth £1200 at a push.
 
I certainly wouldn't be paying that for a green 10yr old, but for me a proven track record (not winnings but lots of life experience) is worth paying for... I'd much rather 'overpay' than find out the hard way that a new horse was more of a 'project' than i'd expected. I know the money won't guarantee that, but to a certain extent i do think you 'get what you pay for' - and i'm not in a position to be bringing on a youngster (yet!) or working on a project.
I completely agree with all you lot though that bringing on a "cheap" youngster/problem horse is v rewarding and there is no need to pay thousands (or more than £1 montyandzoom!) to get that... I know a LOT of horses that are absolute superstars and were free/rescue etc but its just that sometimes is isn't really an option so i can see why people pay up - gives a sense of (probably false) confidence in the purchase if nothing else!
 
A reasonably talented but difficult horse is worth next to nothing as they are so difficult sell, something less talented but easy is worth a great deal more.

A good horse will sell in any market conditions , I was recently offered a 8 yr old jumping 1.25 for £1500 because it napps, The horse was not good enough for a professional and no good for a amatuer. It is still for sale !
 
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I think it depends where you live - in the north east coloureds are ten a penny, and you can buy one for half a ham and bucket of chips
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going back years ago i was after a project and ended up going to see a 15.2hh coloured rising 4 gelding. He was not a traditonal but have pleanty of bone and very nice movement. He had not had anything much done with himand was in quite a sorry state I paid 1200 for him with tack, and slowly bought him on however he was a saint by nature and soon became anyones ride. He also had a cracking scopy jump. He had no papers but we beleived he was warmblood x irish. i called him jester

in laymans terms he was a tricolored, and he has very nice markings and no wall eyes.

He won every time out in coloured and showing classes , and many a time i was approached to see if i would consider selling him. One day we went to a ridingclud show that was also a namchester qualifier, the judge for the colored class was also a chaps judge. My boy won the class, against a strong line up and despite also still being qute green.

After the class the judge approached me and said he was a lovely young gelding with a lot of potential (had also seen him in the novice workers and seen him jump)

He offered me 5,000 for him there and then. I smiled at the judge and turned down his offer, much to his dissmay.

I did eventually end up selling him to a family who shared him and where also very good friends. the mother and daughter where disabled and jester was a huge part of there lives. I sold him to them for 1500 with tack for a life long good home.

To me that meant more than a huge jucy cheque, and they never asked much of him either, but he always got 5 star treatment, and was absolutly adored by the whole family. The mother eventually passed away with cancer, but she had 2 years of jester in her life. they still have him! the husband, the daugther and 2 sons ride him and tottaly adore him.

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