have you ever swaped horses or had a bargin horse?

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jusy out of intrested did u get a nice horse did it go wrong or was it the best horse ever
 
My mum kind of swapped one, although she did have to give a bit of extra cash, so more of a part ex I guess... but between friends.

He turned out to be an amazing bargain!!!
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My mum adored him and then ended up selling him for lots of money!
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All mine have been bargain basements!
12.3h nf x daughters first pony £600 ( 7 years ago and still have him)
shetalnd to keep him company £100
14.1h welsh sec d rescue horse had bad laminitis but been free of it for 3 years, my first pony, £100
and my new one 15.1h tb x bombproof, jumps amazing forward going but very safe, a saint to handle £1500
 
Mine were bargains (Im a penny pincher!)

5yo Sect D (Nebo/derwen bloodlines) 'too much' for owner and just needed schooling- coming along lovely and im a very happy mummy £750.

My filly £0.00 (currently 13hh and a yearling come yesterday)
 
I bought an absolute b*tch of a horse from a dealer and the only way out of it was to swap it for another horse in a car park at a horse show. Which meant I never got that one vetted - and guess what she was lame. The dealer was a complete tosser and offered to swap the lame one for another horse and a thousand pounds - but I got that one vetted and it was knackered as well.

So I have a lame horse and lost loads of money.
 
We got given a free 14.2hh last year, and although he is in his early 20's (going on 5!!), he wins everything, is a complete school master and will take you around a be intro course.... we absoloutly love him!!
 
Not complete bargains but my pony was £1000 with tack etc, had her 10yrs now, she did all pony club - camp, dressage, eventing. A proper pony club pony who was never lame a single day. Retired her recently as hugely outgrown and getting older but got offered three times what I paid when she was at pony club.
Another bargain was my TB. He was £3000 but took me from 2ft6 up to BE Novice eventing within two years. An absolute dream to own. Jumped consistent double clears. Would have taken me a lot further but sadly he had to be pts following a serious injury.
My new TB was the world's worst buy. I won't say how much I paid but he had breeding and paces to die for. He had also been professionally backed. We paid for his potential. Sadly after suspensory and collateral ligament damage among other things he's now my hack. Bargain - I think not!
 
Sort of.

Way back in the day, my parents bought my aunt a frightfully ugly horse, called Blue as her first horse in her Riding School.

Some 20 odd years later, said auntie gave me a very lovely ponio
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Best pony ever. I got the better deal
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I have only ever bought 2 horses in my life. The first, a chestnut Arab stallion, was very cheap - a huge bargain at £600 cos he'd driven his owners nuts by jumping out of all their fields and generally being a noisy hooligan. I bought him unbroken at 4 years old - and he became the first pure-bred Arab to compete successfully in affiliated eventing - also won at affiliated sj, dressage, plus hunter-trials, drag-hunting, etc. And sired a few international endurance champions and ridden showing champions. A tough, brave, wonderful little horse. I still miss him.

My second horse, also a chestnut Arab stallion, was bought as a 2yo. He wasn't for sale (I had to beg and plead for ages) and he was VERY expensive (I'm not saying how much) but he was already an international in-hand show champion. And I still think he was actually a bargain, as he was professionally valued over a year ago at £10,000 more than I paid for him, and that was before he became the most popular first-season Arab stally in the UK, exporting frozen semen to Europe, etc.

His first foals are fabulous, and he has about 30 mares already booked for this season, with more enquiries coming in from all over the world. And much more importantly he's become my great friend and I love him dearly - he's just a joy to be around.

So - I'd say he was a bargain!
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My mum bought my first pony (14.2 nf pony) for £750 with a £600 saddle
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and he was a star (a little sh*t) but a star , took me so far got on all the teams etc . was gutted when he chipped the bone in his stifle and couldn't compete anymore , still have him though
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A friend of mine was given a 17.2 ID a couple of years ago as he had gone sour. She just hacked out on him and recently brought him back into doing eventing again.

He was recently valued at about £10,000

Needless to say she was gobsmacked but wouldn't part with the catankerous (sp?) git for the world
 
i bought my horro a 15.2 full of it irish cob safe but foward going, lean me jumping machine now for £1500 inc tack rugs lotions and potions. tbh she wasnt very good not rideable and tbh she was a utter git, i could not get her out the field with out her kicking me
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. after 2 years of hard work n serious grooming so valued around £6500 but to me she is priceless
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my first horse (still have her .. the spotty mare in my sig) was advertised at 1800 and we ended up buying her for 1200 which seemed a bit over priced at the time cause she wasnt vaccinated passported or anything, but she is completely bombproof and safe she has met the prince been on tv i took her to my work to work with kids that had problems and build up my boss' confidence after a very nasty fall, i trust her with my life and she is priceless. People have stopped me in the street and asked if they could leave their number with me and let them know if i wanted to sell her on numerous occations and the project manager at my work said that she would pay £4500 for her as she stands without tack.

my other little mare cost me £250 and was a project to sell on but at the moment she is shared by a 4yo and has turned out to be a cracking pony we will see if she was a bargin or not when i come to sell her so anyone looking to buy a 12hh ponio in the near future watch this space
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I think Spring was a bit of a bargain (although she was the most expensive of all my horses!). While she has made me work hard for it, she is now a super horse and probably the best one I have ever owned.
My last mare was given to me for free and was the most fantastic pony club pony. I bought a very well bred 4 yo welsh D gelding, brought him on and sold him 18 months later for 4 times what I paid for him!

I don't like spending a lot of money buying horses - I spend enough keeping the bloomin' things!!
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All my horses are bargins, my current most expensive one cost £1, then I got given the other two, One as a wedding present (fab present & he's awesome) & the other was given to me by a freind of my mums who was retiring as a trainer & I was considering trying point to pointing, so he gave me a lovely horse (but dreadfully bad jumper) to get me started, was possibly the worst horse to start on, but taught me alot (mainly about how to hang on!!)

My previous best hunter cost £200 from beeston as a 3yo & hunted & team chased like no tomorrow

When ever i've spent proper money on a horse they've ended up dead rather sooner than planned, of the last 2, 1 had a heart attack on the gallops & the other broke her leg, (that was a bad year, lost 3 horses in 12 months)
 
OMG racingdemon, that sounds like a really bad year!!!
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I just got what i consider a bargin with my new baby jeff - I love him!
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Actually, I think my other boy, Charlie was a bargain too! I love my boys!!
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Swapped mine and I reckon all of us came out winners. My last horse sadly had to be pts. Bought a new one - 13yr old Haffie sold to me as an ideal plod for a nervous rider - paid £3,500 almost 4 yrs ago - and within a year he'd put me in hospital with an almost broken neck. Not his fault - nice little horse but NOT a plod. Not in any way, shape or form! Yard/Riding school owner came to see me when they finally unstrapped me from the spinal board. We both agreed I could never get on him again as he'd just do the same thing again and I don't bounce well any more. She said, give him to me for 6 months (as a riding school horse) and he'll be a different horse. Even better, she had a sweet schoolmaster that really needed some tlc so we just swopped. I know that £££ wise, it would seem I came off worst, but I won because me and Sunny found each other and I've never looked back. Haffie doing fine though he now has to behave himself! He has an adoring fan club of teenagers who love it when he broncs round the school! Weird. But then they bounce better than me.
 
yes, both of mine were pretty bargainous! My chestnut TB came off the track as a 4 year old for 200 pounds, he's priceless as far as I'm concerned - hunts, events, plays polo and you can ride him on the buckle out hacking. My other grey TB was 'rescued' for 1500 from a home that had lost interest in him, they hadn't seen him for 2 years, just left him in the field! he's much sharper and sometimes incredibly frustrating but still amazingly cheapy all things considered! I don't think I'd buy a very expensive horse - it'd be like having a very expensive car, I'd always be worrying about it!
 
My first horse cost me £190. I still have her. Our best ever pony was £50 we still have him. We bought a cracker for £79 and he went on to win Supreme champion at every show. We did sell him as he turned out such a star and a family we knew begged us for him. I still got the enjoyement of seeing him. my daughters current pony looking for a loan home i thought expensive at £600. They have had 3 wonderful happy years, 100's of rossettes and trophies. We were offered £3000 for him a few weeks ago so i suppose he was a bargain, although he will never be sold but go out on loan. We took in a £26,000 horse that was not worth tuppence when we took her in.
 
Blue is a bargain horse (recent pics in PG 'My 'dressage' horse') he cost £900 at market as a just turned 3yo we were offered £10k for him last year and he is wicked, really honest and i just had a fantastic weekend with him
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red was a bargain- £1000 with all his stuff, and he is so calm, sensible, and generally brilliant! OH has learnt to ride on him, I have hunted him all winter, and he's best mates with my stroppy TB.
 
Ed was bought for 1k granted he was in his late teens but he was a 5yro at heart and in his mind, he is still a swine despite being 24yro. Only had 2 lame days in the past 5 or so years and even then it was just because he had been playing too much in the field. He really taught me so much so I think he is a bargin.

Stylo cost 1300 with everything, granted he will cost a lot more in the long run (crap feet and everything) but he is so laid back it is unreal so to me that is a bargin in himself, quite a few people have said that he is very quiet for an ex racer (I don't know that many ex's so cannot comment on their general temprements myself). He has done nothing and is going to take a lot of work to get going right but he is happy to do anything I ask him to do, has taken to jumping very naturally (including field hopping over fences just under 5ft ish) so at the moment he is ok but not a huge bargin.
 
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