Have you or would you pay £5000 for a foal?

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I'm not sure whether I am getting my foal pricing wrong or whether my friend is delusional but she is putting her foals up for £5k each at weaning. Ok, maybe they have good breeding, etc, etc but would anyone pay that for a foal?

Do you know anyone that has paid this for a foal?

To me that seems crazy money for something that is not only unproven but may have an accident in the field. Opinions please!
 
Probably not helpful but that's about 8 or 9 grand in USD, and I can't imagine anyone I know paying that apart, perhaps and its a BIG perhaps, for a youngstock racehorse?
 
MosMum said:
Probably not helpful but that's about 8 or 9 grand in USD, and I can't imagine anyone I know paying that apart, perhaps and its a BIG perhaps, for a youngstock racehorse?
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I suppose racehorses yes (I think most stud fees alone are £2k-£3k) but these arent racehorses, lol!
 
I think you'll find a lot of sports horse foals will be £5k and much more in some cases. People will pay loads for fashionable breeding in the hope of finding a superstar.
 
LHS said:
I think you'll find a lot of sports horse foals will be £5k and much more in some cases. People will pay loads for fashionable breeding in the hope of finding a superstar.
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Hmm, interesting. What if the mother has never done anything though? Which is the case for one of them. I'm not sure how fashionable the breeding is so cant comment on that.
 
A couple of years ago yes, but in this climate?

Well bred youngsters by good and well known dressage/jumping sires can go for huuuuge amounts of money but as I said, in this climate it is more unlikely. For instance 12 years ago I paid £3.5k for a PRE weanling, these days you can pick them up for £2.5 - £3k!
 
My friend about 3 years ago paid something like 5K for their foal and 10k for it's full sibling yearling, mind you these had world class breeding and the yearling has proven his worth and is now under Isabel Werth!!!! So you can see the type I'm talking about!!

Alot of dressage bred foals with the bloodlines behind them, will go for anything from 4-8k!
 
Hmm, it appears ppl will pay it for dressage foals but one mother is a succesful ex-racer, the other a big, fat hairy. Neither dressage horses. The stallions are nice but neither have competed to PSG level (even though they are related to good lines). I have seen 2 foals for sell by one of the stallions for under £2000. Even though apparently she knows of one that went up country for £7k.
 
Hmm sounds like she might have her pricing a bit wrong... In the round I would say £5k for a good foal is perfectly normal money but you would need the breeding behind them (be by a proven or up and coming sire) and either some sort of good evaluation (eg futurity) or to come from a proven damline with predicates and/or a sucessful sport competition record or record of producing quality foals.
 
Faberge said:
Hmm sounds like she might have her pricing a bit wrong... In the round I would say £5k for a good foal is perfectly normal money but you would need the breeding behind them (be by a proven or up and coming sire) and either some sort of good evaluation (eg futurity) or to come from a proven damline with predicates and/or a sucessful sport competition record or record of producing quality foals.
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Totally agree, for a competition breed foal £5000 is cheap compared to what you'd pay for it as a 3 or 4 yr loose jumping or backed.
 
Faberge said:
Hmm sounds like she might have her pricing a bit wrong... In the round I would say £5k for a good foal is perfectly normal money but you would need the breeding behind them (be by a proven or up and coming sire) and either some sort of good evaluation (eg futurity) or to come from a proven damline with predicates and/or a sucessful sport competition record or record of producing quality foals.
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Well, I couldnt tell you how good the sire was in honesty. One was graded 2nd premie at the BEF futurity, the other wouldnt load so didnt go. One dam line is none existant, the other is a racing background. No previous quality foals produced.
 
Well, I wouldn't EVER - think that's madness but then there are some crazy people in the world. I guess to some people £5K is nothing and even cheap but I couldn't spend that much on a horse that may never amount to anything no matter what it's breeding lines were. It's no guarantee.
 
I wouldn't pay that amount for a foal, especially if the dams haven't proved themselves. I think the dam is the most important factor in a foal, considering they contribute to the majority of the make up (some scientific percentages that I'll never understand!) so a foal from an unproven mare would be very undesirable to me, no matter what the father may have done. I think I need a sit down after thinking of paying 5k :D
 
i can understand really good bloodlines and something along the lines of friesians or andulucions because as you know friesians and others are alot of money but not anything else i wouldnt pay £5000 for
 
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