Have you ever worked out how much you've spent in purchasing your horses?

[SpruceRI]

Was talking to a friend the other day about the number of horses she's got and how much they all cost to buy (purchase price, not vetting and assoc. costs) - and we sat and worked it out.

Mine have cost £11,750 over 27yrs, and that's for 11 horses and ponies.

Out of the 8 my friend currently has, she's spent £35k and purchased them in the last 7yrs or so.

We thought that one day we'd try and work out how much we'd spent in keeping them. Scary thought!!

 

[Sparkles]

£0. For all of mine [3/4]

 

[JennyNZ]

The "purchasing" was the cheap bit.

As for the rest, well it's gotta be cheaper than therapy

 

[Littlelegs]

Probably close to even. Parents bought my mare when I was 10 as a 2yr old. Had a horse I bought as a project for peanuts & fell for, but had an accident & was pts. Other projects I always sold for more than I paid. Other horse I had for me I had to sell when pregnant & went for same sort of price I paid. And daughters pony cost a tenner.

 

[Shooting Star]

Hmm, £8,200 over the course of around 20 years, I did have one of them for 16 yrs though

 

[loz9]

£4,800 for 6 over 10ish yrs (altho 1 was a freebie! & of the remaining 5 one cost me £2,700 so the last 4 combined only cost £2,100!!) plus the cost off breeding my boy who was £300 stud fee & a mountain of further costs! dont think thats too bad really!

 

[SpruceRI]

£4,800 for 6 over 10ish yrs (altho 1 was a freebie! & of the remaining 5 one cost me £2,700 so the last 4 combined only cost £2,100!!) plus the cost off breeding my boy who was £300 stud fee & a mountain of further costs! dont think thats too bad really!

That's pretty good too!

 

[loz9]

That's pretty good too!

I'm actually quite impressed with it! I have never worked it out before & its a pleasant surprise. Downside tho is that 2 of them were bought at 6mths & another at 10mths so had to spend a fair few pennies on them before I could actually ride them, so guess what I saved on purchase price will have been swallowed up on their keep, & thats a sum I'm definately not going to be calculating

 

[Enfys]

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[xRobyn]

£550 nearly 11 years ago

 

[Squiggles on Paper]

Far too much It's not even so much the purchase price, it's the stuff that comes afterwards!

 

[Merlin11]

Not that much compared to what I have spent on them since. Especially considering I bought a place with land to keep them!

 

[Jazzy B]

£3300 in the last 20 years (3 horses)

 

[Delicious_D]

About £13,000 for two horses . As far as dads aware they were a tenner each

 

[AmeliaVDW]

£4,450 over the last 7 years! Although swapped one horse for a well bred youngster and now possibly a freebie coming next week.

 

[Echo24]

So far, £500 and I haven't even got one yet! Spent money on vettings only for horses to fail them, (I took an instructor with me and someone experienced but vets picked up underlying things). I hate to think how much it will cost me when I finally buy one!

 

[millitiger]

I think its about £20,500, just on purchase prices.

On 11 horses.

Doesn't account for how much I got when I sold 9 of them though!

 

[unbalanced]

£1000 on the pony I got when I was fourteen, thirteen years ago. I put in £997 which was all the money I had in my savings account (birthday, Christmas and pocket money from 'saving up for a pony') and my parents chipped in the other £3. Oh yes and they also paid for her to be vetted, and transport home, and paid my instructor to come and view her, and paid her keep, which in my head I was paying because I handed over the £7 a week I got from my Saturday job. Didn't really think about any of that at the time. But I still have her. She is much better behaved now.

 

[PandorasJar]

Buying was minimal. Collecting them is what's expensive. Need to start saying no to free horses!

 

[DGeventing]

A ridiculous amount (even if I just tot up this years total! ) though most sell at a profit making me feel a bit better!

 

[TheoryX1]

Had first pony on loan, so nothing, but for my cob, who I have owned by 8 years, Mini TX's second pony and Mini TX's eventer, I would not get much change from £20k. However, thats nothing compared to how much I have spent on my spoiled ponies ever since and they are worth every penny.