How much did you pay for your horses?

Welsh x Caspian - £450
Welsh A x Conamara - £100
Registered Sec C - £100
Registered Sec C x Sports pony £50
Rescue Cob -£250 (paid for another at the rescue to be gelded.)
Cob - gifted from friend...
 
FrankieCob said:
Happens in the NE as well, although buying Frankie was the first time it ever happened to me. They just shoved me £20 and said "here is your lucky money"
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That's funny FrankieCob, they were honourable enough to give you back a Luck Penny, but also doing the social and running a bogus rescue! Honour among thieves eh. Glad to hear the tradition is alive in the NE too. And a lovely story about Frankie!
 
I have a lovely story about a horse I sold; a really nicely put together little mare TB/ID cross that I got for free. Her owner wanted to get into racehorses and joined a syndicate, but was actually scared of horses, when she was born to this TB mare he just left her in a field. That's how I got her at three, totally unhandled and scared of people.

I spent a winter feeding her over the gate from a bucket, trying to rub her head while she ate - which she wasn't too keen on pretty much! I was injured at the time so couldn't go into the field. I advertised her in the Spring and an English girl turned up to view her. When she got out of the car I saw she couldn't walk properly and thought this is madness - the mare would be too wild for her.

It turns out that while she wasn't great on the ground this little slip of a girl was perfect once she was on the back of a horse (and an accomplished horsewoman at that). I sold her the little mare for €400 and just the other day looked her up on facebook to see her hunting the mare and jumping for Ireland. I was so pleased...and I just thought what a lovely ending for these two, who hadn't had an easy start in life. So glad I got to play a little part in that story :)
 
Current three -

Cooly - 15.2hh TB ex racehorse and broodmare, VERY well bred but crap at her job and hadn't been sat on for five years. - £200

Tuff - 17hh TB ex racehorse, list too big and slow, but a lovely hunter and the sweetest and safest hack in the world!! - £3000

Baeley - 17.1hh 6yr old ISH, green but absolutely lovely and coming on really well - £6500
 
Beppe £3900, Belgian warmblood bought back in 2000 had him for 7yrs and was a horse of a lifetime, did everything with him up to Newcomers and BE Novice.
Zack, hanovarian, bought 2yrs ago for £4500 was jumping BN and Discovery but has neurological problems.
Just about to buy Larry at £6500 15.3 warmblood, also currently jumping BN/discovery and I have him on trial.
 
I paid £800 for my little (Welsh x tb we think but no breeding on passport) mare last Feb - she had been sold to a novice 13 year old girl (non horsey family) and I think had frightened the bejeezus out of her. So far she's been cracking! Best money I ever spent!
 
first horse 2006, an ex-racer my dads syndicate owned, who had cost thousands origonally and actually won quite a lot for a cheap race horse, but injury caused retirement to riding. free! (in fact I think passport still says his race syndicate on as owners!!)
second horse was £3000, I had re-backed her after she was sent away on loan by original owner after 2 years off. she was nuts after loaners mistreated her and then dumped her at a yard I was at. took 9 months of ground work. so i paid over the odds considering all the work I had put in. but the owner had paid £3700 origonally and she is stunning knapstrupper 16'2 mare.
gained 2 neworest 4 yo unbacked ponies this spring, gifted to me as the owner knew me and that I would garuntee a great home, instead of selling cheaply to unknown homes, as she did not have time or them any more.
so in total £3000 for 4!
I do understand why some horses warrant a higher price tag, especially when you consider the cost of producing them.
 
The thing that is most shocking, I think, is that in 1972 my parents paid £120 for my first pony. He was a 3 1/2yo unregistered Fell type, who although he would follow others when ridden had had zero schooling (came good in the end though). The other pony we looked at at the time was a 13.2 welsh who I fell off so I didn't get her. She would have been £150.
Looking at ponies today I could probably buy similar for £400 or so, I paid £450 for a 14.2 hairy pony to school on recently, yet when the value of the money taking inflation into consideration is worked out £120/£150 in 1972 is £1500/£1900 today.
 
the least we've ever spent is 5k (although I gave my dad a token £1 for my old boy when he came over from the UAE to make him 'mine').

current horses cost between 8 and 36.
 
My first pony was 1200. It was all of my baby savings, I was loaning him & he was nuts but as soon as moved yards & he had turnout he turned into an angel :) best money spent

Star connie x tb at 6 was 2800 was up for 3500 tbh she wasn't worth the 2800 she was dangerous, i had to groom her back legs with a brush on a stick to avoid a hoof to the head! But after a year we got a bond & everything clicked...she still hated other people but me she was ok with. But she was insanely talented, took a stride out to a 1.40 oxer & cleared it, took me schooling round be intermediate xc fences she taught me so so much she was worth the money in the end. At a good point got offered 7k for her. Sold her for a token 250 as a companion after she got djd & navicular & did come sound & sadly I didn't know what i do now or i would have kept her :(

Lucy cost me 900 as a rising 3 year old id x tb & was honestly the best 900 I've ever spent. She was an angel of a mare. So easy to break & produce on & so much fun. She owed me nothing & is now with a lovely young girl as her step up from ponies to teach her eventing :)

Maggie cost me 600 as a rising 3 year old connie mare fantastic confo & breeding class a all the way back. Was an angel to break & frankly is going to be a star! She is so intelligent :)

Aqua cost me 650 including delivery from ireland connie x tb mare at 3. Now at rising 4 & nearly broken its taken me a while but I'm starting to love her. She is much better now she has something to focus her brain on as before she was so naughty! But again I think she might just prove herself to be very useful!
 
A pair of youngsters from the breeder £1500
16yo Ex BSJA grade A with 2525 points £1
14h 3 yo cob mare £350
Yearling Suffolk punch x to make 17h2 - a swap for the mare above
Gypsy cob youngster £50
Cob x trotter £160 delivered
 
This is a really useful thread!

2 x old welsh ponies + 1 old shetland for the children - free
12 yr old IDxTB hunter with a melanoma - £5000 - WAY overpaid!
ex-racehorse - free
13.2 15 yr old gem of a hunting pony - £2000
amazing hunting Shetland - £1500
10 yr old incredible 14.2 hunting/eventing Welsh Sec D - £4000
 
First horse tb X new forest mare bought for £1000 no longer with us

second horse Arab colt sister paid £4000 but she ended up giving him to me when the above horse was pts so he was free for me I still have him ten years on.

third horse oldenburg mare given to me by sister again so free unfortunately lost her this year:(

fourth horse Arab gelding ten years old given to me last year for free from a friend he didn't suit her daughter and they wanted a forever home for him his turned out great for me.

I seem to just have just ended up with other people's and not paid very much for any of them!
 
£3600 for a 7 year old reasonably well bred, quite green but clever with a huuuuge jump, ISH gelding. The price also included his delivery. He was advertised for me but I haggled.

I'd been about to pay £4.5k on a nice but not as nice ISH that failed it's vetting. I think I got a bargain in comparison but horses in Northumberland seem to be cheaper than those in Leicestershire.
 
Mine was £600, for lovely happy chappy 16 yo ISH, perfect in every way (except for the lameness issues but we are doing ok with that now), including full wardrobe (1yr old Barnsby saddle, stubben bridle, rugs, grooming kit, storage boxes, buckets, the lot!). Absolute bargain :)
 
16.1hh, black mare, 21 years old. Had her on loan for four years before buying her.

Grand total of £1 :D

However I did pay for a very expensive vet bill for her, which probably balances what I paid for her... :)
 
Tiddlypom said:
Over the years, between £150 and £4800.

However, my homebred 4yo Uptons Deli Circus mare cost me just the £550 stud fee, right :eek: ?

(In denial about the true costs of breeding and rearing a horse to maturity).
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Hahah of course !!! Just don't add up the vet bills :p
 
I paid 2000€ for my cob 10 years ago.

More recently I paid 1900€ for my youngster as a 7mo old foal and 2650€ for my green as grass 6yo mare.

Though I think, in general, horse prices are higher in France than in the UK.
 
I have 2 horses, I've had one for 6 years & the other for 12 years & paid several thousands for each. The money isn't important to me. The horses are very special & they are what I wanted, I'm happy with them, they seem happy with me & you can't put a price on that. :)
 
The beautiful one now retired 16.2 ID x type was a freebie as I was his groom
Daughters Coloured superstar was £1300 after a failed vetting but *touch wood* has been fantastic
Mine, Anglo Arab quite old and has been bit of a pita £500 with tack and some rugs
 
My first horse was gifted to me, however I paid £500 for all her tack & rugs etc.

Daughters first pony £1200. Turned out to be a fab little mounted games pony and did really well and local level. Sold her for quite a bit more.

Daughters second pony £1000. A fab little Arab that was fantastic at endurance.

My second horse £1500. A lovely little Standardbred who I bought when I retired my first horse. Spent £7k trying to fix her, sadly to no avail.

My daughters horse of a lifetime £6.5k. Grade A BSJA, working hunter demon & dressage superstar. Well worth his considerable weight in gold and is now my Trec partner and best friend.
 
HattieTheSuperCob said:
Bit of a nosey post haha but just out of interest how much did you pay for them? I have just bought Hattie a 7yo cob 15.2hh for £500, passed her vetting with flying colours but she is a project to bring on after being out of work for a year.
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first mare in 1984 = £ 450 or £400
second mare 1989 = £ 650 ( 15 month old )
donkey 1993 = £ 350 I think
third mare 2007 £ 700
fourth mare 2015 £ 2200

gelding I bred out of second mare

I would never pay more than £ 4000 for any horse
 
Gosh, "price" and "value" are two different things aren't they? I have paid from 0 - €40,000 (breeding stallion), but the best horses I've had have all cost around €1,000 (and there is of course the beautiful free one, best of all of them ;-). I find the price paid is largely irrelevant to the outcome. The last one I actually bought cost €70, but he's a mule, does he count?
 
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