How much did you pay for your horse?

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I think motor racing would rank right up there with the cost of keeping horses. £8 - £10k per season to run a racing car isn't unusual
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My Lovely mummy horse cost me £475 in 1984 as a six month old foal when I was eighteen and her son has more than made up for that by costing me about £18000 so far and he's only four but just loves monstrous vet bills!!!
 
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I still couldnt afford to spend over 3-4k on what is essential a hobby.

[/ QUOTE ] But it is going to cost you a lot to keep the horse in terms of feed, livery, shoeing etc - so if you put aside that amount of money every month it wouldn't be long before you had the money to buy a horse in that price bracket!
 
Too much for cob for what he was when I brought him, he was a very misunderstood little horse, and I paid 1700 for him. G was 4k, but dont regret a penny of it for either.
 
the little grey is on loan.
Both the big boys well under 2k each

Earlier comment about 4k being too much for a "hobby", I think that is where you may be going wrong!! It's not a hobby having a horse, it's a way of life!!
 
£2500 for WB when he was 6, he is now 13 and probably worth half that!!!!
£1000 for highland when he was 3 and unbroken, he is now 6 and a star probably worth about £5000, if i could only persuade mum to sell him i could buy the event horse ive been waiting my whole life for!!
 
Sid was €4000, (approx £2650) as a rising 5yo that had done nothing but had decent enough breeding...financed from the sale of my last horse who I bought for €2500 and sold for 3k (plus the livery savings from when I was horseless!)
Was offered 8k for him after I had had him less than 6 months but he's a keeper...

I also don't consider him to have a value (as in don't see him as an investment) as I hope to keep him for life and should anything happen to him I don't expect to recoup what I have put into him (IMO buying the horse is the cheapest bit!!)
 
Spent 6K on a fantastic, bombproof coloured pony,
4.5K when he died on a relatively green 6yr old (don't ask me why...he trotted round courses he was so green!) (but sold him for double so hey!)
and just over 7K on a decent pre-novice eventer.
All at least what they were worth, we tend to overspend.
bought one pony for 300, sold it 6mnths later for 100 (allowed mother to sell it...and overbearing people came and argued her down to it!)
Bought two for about 1500, sold one for about 3.5 )big ISH mare) and still have the oldie.
Tend to make a gain on selling, but I think we do pay stupid prices in an effort to get something easy enough to ride.

(mind, we also gave away an ID broodmare...silly us?)
 
Paid £2k for Zara, £1k for Millie (as a yearling), £3k for Moge, think we were stung really, but love him to bits and he did eventually turn in the best hunter, shame he was retired at 8, £700 for Spur and definately worth it, she is a little star....
 
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I think motor racing would rank right up there with the cost of keeping horses. £8 - £10k per season to run a racing car isn't unusual
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And the rest!!
 
Oh, I know you can go a LOT higher in motorsport, but know a friend who was paying £10k per season to race an old BMW
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Max I have ever paid is 12K.
The eventers I have now were bought at £3000, (I have had offers for her at over 40K now!!!) £4000, and £2,500.

I have fellow YR and Junior friends who have eventers bought for them at over 60K each with out a blink of an eye- and they have a string of them. One event spent 35k on a youngster ( cos they got told it would go to Badmington) :roll eyes:
Infact I know of a certain hig profile YR whos horse was funded by the sale of their house.
 
I paid 3k for a Grade A 20 years ago - unsure how much that would be these days.
We are putting our house on the market to fund our hobby as we now have a yard. Are we insane??? mind you, we can't take it with us.....
Wouldn't currently pay more than 3k for the kids ponies - such a selfish mum.
For our horses anywhere between 2 and 6k for anything decent.
 
I paid £3200 13 years ago for my lad but have turned down stupid offers for him - wierd people!

Dressage trainer I know remortgaged her house to buy a last ditch attempt to get to the top 4 years ago - it's still in Medium now
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Wouldn't mind being able to afford a 60k horse
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I paid 3k for a Grade A 20 years ago - unsure how much that would be these days.

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Well, at the risk of being shot down in flames, I doubt it's as much more as you might think
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We sold a 7yo 16.3 ISH jumping Fox / 1.25's in 1987 for £5k, and bought a similar grade of horse 15 months ago for 50% more than that
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my exracer was over priced at £1750 - dont regret a penny of it though as he is a star and we have been offered 6k for him now, a year on...

My ISH was 3.5k, he was 4 and a half, blue and white, quite basic in his schooling but with a lovely jump - I do think it was a bit much but he has the best nature and is 100% in everyway which is imporant to me....

The other tb I have staying with me at the moment would cost me 3k if i wanted to buy her from the owner, she is just turned 4 and a big, strong, rangey event type with a fatastic temerament - tis a shame I dont have 3k!!!
 
£400 for the 13.2 New Forest X riding pony (back in 1985 though!) Did everything with her and won a lot of money BSJA. The one I've still got and she's 30 this year. Staying with me for the rest of her life good now - she owes me nothing as she was brilliant and taught me so much!
£1000 for the 14.2 JC pony in 1988 - I jumped a lot of pony opens on him and did my first PC Horse trial with him.
£4750 for the TB novice eventer back in 1990 - we were placed BE novice and got a few points and jumped a couple of intermediate tracks (god those intermediate tracks were scary!!!)
£5,500 (1993) for a 6 year TB that had done a couple of BSJA novice tracks. We were placed Pre-novice, jumped clear novice. Showjumped up to Foxhunter level and won some money BSJA.

Don't like to think what they would cost me now!!
 
Around £3000 (I can't remember for the life of me whether it was slightly over or under that), for a '5 year old' Dutch warmblood without papers.

Overpriced but in comparison to todays prices for the same thing I guess not. He was infact rising 4 when I bought him. He has the Zanger brand but its dubious as to whether thats where he was bred.

Either way i'd happily pay twice that today if I had the money because I think he's worth his weight in gold.
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My girl was £2500 from a dealer and a complete con as shes unrideable!
My Boy was gifted to me and is worth approx £8-10k.
(Bargin if you ask me! Lol)
 
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