How much did your horse/s cost? (what was your budget?)

15.2 tb from a rescue charity - made a donation of £150 and paid £200 to have her delivered. Gorgeous, gorgeous girl.

Paid £900 for 14.2 tbx pony at 4y.o. 18 years ago. Made a brilliant show pony and little dressage horse. She's still going strong!
 
Nothing :D

I had a budget of about £1000, but he was gifted to me from a racing yard. Good job as I was able to spend the money saved on good rugs/ made to measure tack etc.

Aways prefer to buy under budget so I have cash left to make sure my horse wants for nothing!!! :)
 
When I got my haflinger nearly 6yrs ago I had another horse on loan so didn't need another one, then I saw him come up for sale rang my mum & said I want this pony (He was like my dream pony as a child) so we went to see him knowing full well we would have him, which we did & I paid £1200 for him which to be honest I think was alot for him, but I still got him :p

My mums cob was up for £1850 & she got him for £1650 (I think it was about that) he came with tack.

My broken 4yr old we got this year was up for £1750 & got him for £1550 with a bridle & our NF my mum paid £250 for him as a 2yr old we sold him as a 4yr old & the people who bought him gave him back to us this year & he is now 10yrs old :)
 
I didn't have a budget for my coloured. Admittedly he was an impulse buy! I paid £750 for a 9.5 month old unhandled colt. He has been successful around the showing circuits, getting placed every time out, and has won many classes and championships. He even won at County level this year! Just goes to show it is the work that you put into horses which makes them good horses, and not always what you have paid for them. :) xx
 
My budget was 2K, I went to see one and really didnt like it, didnt even get on and try it, I ended up with something so far from what i wanted and £500 over budget but i fell for him and he will be with me till the end of his days.
 
Had a budget of about £4500, boy was up for £5k but I got him for £4k. (The most I had spent on one before this was £700 so it nearly killed me!!!!)

He was only the 2nd one the daughter tried - I didn't like him, thought he was fat & ugly but she fell in love with him & we've never regretted a day - he's fab!!!

Has to go next year though, its gunna be awful :(
 
Captain- budget up to £7k, looking for a potential dressage horse for daughter and her trainer to bring on.Paid £2 and a half K for him. He had "issues" so was cheaper. Never regretted it once.

Fany- looking for a bombproof happy hacker, around £3-4K she was £2300. I Could not haggle as woman had around 5 calls about her whilst we were there and Elizabeth announced at the top of her voice "this is the one" Kind of stops all haggling in its tracks! She is everything they sold her as.

I have been lucky with my 2. Neither came with any tack etc because both from dealers. As to what they are worth, Fany probably around what I paid for her. Caps, well he is an extremely quirky, sensitive old git (nearly 18) and probably worth nothing except to us and to us he is priceless, he will end his days with us and owes us nothing at all.
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Mine range from £50 -£19,000
Pony was £50 old girl was £2000 ten yrs ago bailey £10000 and silver was £19000 for my 21st last year all bought by my wonderful parents

The two pretty much pay for there own keep aslong as I'm out jumping most weekends
 
Current one was bargain at £750, have paid a heck of a lot more and ended up with rearers, buckers, downright nasty horses.
First pony in 1986 cost £650.
My current budget once old boy retires will be around £3 to 5 K and I want a really sensible horse for this money. No more nutters for me.
 
Budget for Lottie, the £1,800 I got selling previous pony. Cost £2,000, sold previous pony's saddle for £200 to make up the rest and parents bought me a saddle for Lottie for my birthday. I was 15 and soo proud to buy my own horse, never mind that parents paid for previous pony!! Still have her, still ride her occassionally, we're both 32 in the spring, worth every penny!!!

Budget for Beau, £500, didn't think I'd ever get what I wanted for that! Cost £700, borrowed the rest. Not bad for a 2 yr old, spotted, who now she's grown up jumps BSJA (on ticket, I haven't joined yet!), will do a nice dressage test, hacks out and does all the work xc, plus really easy to do.

Budget for Sonic £500, could stretch to £1k. Cost £800 totally not worth that in this financial climate but will be in a couple more months, he's learning so fast! If I can sort out his temper ridden he'll affiliate next autumn and he is so easy on the ground and loving that I don't mind being skint now I have him!!
 
First Budget was £1200, bought mare for £450, sold for a good profit ;)
Second Budget was around 1000-1500, bought the grey man for 1250 :) Best 1250 squirrels I ever spent and he will never be for sale, I would estimate his value at around ... ooo... priceless!! ;)
 
The vast majority of my horses have been cheapies. In no particular order they have cost the following:
£free, £1500, £2000, £2000, £2800

My recent purchase I went out with £10K in my pocket (although my inherently tight nature meant I was loathe to spend it). I was wanting a schoolmaster type. I had been keeping an eye on the market for months to guage what I wanted and what I would need to spend.

I took the plunge over last Christmas when I had been keeping an eye on a horse that had been advertised a while that fully fitted my wish list. Around the same time a horse advert popped up for a youngster and I fell in love from the advert.

So I viewed the youngster (priced at 6K), loved him. I viewed the schoolmaster (10K) and he was very nice but I knew I wanted the youngster. I went to a dealer and saw 3-4 of similar age/stamp to the youngster just to confirm the decision in my head and then purchased the first viewed youngster for just over 5K.
 
4 years ago - didn't have a budget at all! At the time I was loaning and the loan was costing £30 a week, so a friend said, "you might as well buy one for that, stabling isn't that much more" :rolleyes: ...

So in my infinite wisdom, I decided to have a look at what I could get for my money. Went to a dealer, just for a look of course, and the rest is history!...

I actually wanted a 10 year old school master, and fell in love with and bought a 3 year old unbroken stallion! oops!!!

He cost me £1800. I couldn't pay for him as had no savings at the time, so dealer accepted installments for him *phew!! I took him home and 7 months later, he was paid off and officially mine... The gelding wasn't cheap either :eek:

As to what he is worth now, hmm, god knows!! But he is truely the best thing to ever happen to me! It could have ended up a nightmare, but thank god, due to time and LOTS of effort, he is the horse of my dreams (except when he's being a pain! lol!) ;)
 
My first horse was £800 with all sorts of tack and goodness knows what else thrown in! This was back in 1984 - Anglo Arab 12yrs old...a fleabitten greay roan and a total livewire and an absolute sweetie!
My second horse was £600 with nothing! A rescued tb ex-racer black and beautiful who was untouchable and very anti-human in 1996 aged 9yrs. I wasnt looking for a horse but saw her in the field and the next thing I know those immortal words were spoken...Ill take her on!
 
Both my WB's cost me £4000!

One was bought in 1996 - bred at Stal Hendrix by Hemmingway, 3 yrs old when i bought him and still have him today! Offered £20k straight up at a BS show by a Saudi Prince that was over here looking for horses and turned him down, still no regrets as would never part with him.

2nd horse bought for 4k also, 3 years ago. He was just turned 2, turned out to be a fabulous horse and worth every penny! Again would turn down big money for him also!
 
Pickles was 13.1 ex prince phillip cup, £750 in 1993, he was not in a good way when we got him, fat, cuts ragged at the side of his mouth, in a kimblewick and a drop which pinched him, he was 13 but jumped really green (proper box jump to him) jogged everywhere, napped on occasion, star gazed, hated being caught and yep, you guessed it... I absolutely had my heart stolen by him:D:D:D<<< I looked like that when I got off him! When I grew out of him and went to uni, I loaned him out, he had such a fantastic new lease of life and was very much loved by this woman who was petit and would never outgrow him that I gifted him to her, he was put down a few year ago a very old and much loved boy.

3 unhandled ponies, 1 purebred registered black dartmoor mare, 1 exmoor mare that was pregnant to an appy, 1 dartmor thelwell type colt( later gelded by me): £75 for the lot. Sold for £300 each, all well handled and sold to good homes, the cost of keeping them was more than what they sold for but they had a chance at having a good life, it was really rewarding.

Annie, £800, traditional blue and white Gypsy cob, unbroken.

Ebony 1K broken in, 7yrs old, needed a lot of bringing on and education but sheer raw tallent and potential

Shantia £1, sodding nightmare, a bag of issues, dirty bucker, rearer, had been Parellied to death, sold on to someone who I knew would keep her forever, with a full written disclosure and reccomendation that in my opinion she should not be ridden. The woman has worked for 2 years with her and is now doing pleasure rides, parelli and xc, she still bucks and I look back and now think there is a good chance of kissing spines, but she has perservered and she will never sell her or pass her on, lucky horse, because her current owner approached me when she heard I was going to have her put down!

Benney:
My beautiful Baby Ben, Cost me nothing was a gift from OH but cost him £800 but would have been £1000 on the open market.

Desperately trying to sit on my hands now though as I have seen a lovely colt I want to buy and bring on as a project to produce and sell and he is only £500.
 
Going back 4 ½ years ago as a 2yr old I paid 2.5k, which was what I had from the sale of my previous one, budget could have been 3.5k as my mum would of put in the rest, I was actually viewing my horses older half brother a 3yr old that was for 3.5k but then barged his way through wile trying to look a the other youngster in the field and I kinda fell for him, I thought he had character.



.....and regretted it ever since! :D
 
My currant boy was advertised at £3000 and £2900 I offered a bit less. No muscle or anything on him n he was 6yrs. This was last year. Feet a mess etc. Worth pointing out he was being sold with all tack and rugs from lovely girl who had pretty much rescued him. He went lame the day I met him due to a cast shoe and before vetting so I scrubbed vetting if we could lower price and when i went to collect he was still lame! So price dropped to £1450 Took 6 wks to come sound Is coming on such a lot feet still aint growing lol but hes my chum. Dispite throwing me last wk and i still cant ride due to injuries sigh oh well ho hum
 
first youngster budget 1000 got for 450.00
shire who i rescued they wanted 2500.00 being underweight and riddled with worms and lice
i payed 1500.00 budget 1800

friesian mare brought from dealer was up for 2500.00
being underweight and again riddled with worms i payed 1500.00 budget of 2000
and both my young friesians imported from holland
both were 1500.00 each and payed 600.00 to be delivered
had a budget of 4000.00
and my reciently brought mare cost me 2500.00 they wanted 3500.00 budget 3000.00
 
our budget was £5000 for a 5 year old that had done a bit of everything and we only looked at taz he was a 3 year old un-handled ISH which we paid £2600 for :o

missy we didnt have a budget we were looking for a loan but we saw her and paid £350 :o for her :)

ollie we had £1000 and we paid £900

romany we payed £850 but had £1000 to get one with :)
 
First pony - 2 yr old NF filly, £125 (budget was £500) in 1978!
Second - 4 yr old sec d, £250, virtually unhandled, parental impulse so no budget! Sold a year later, for £500, broke him myself and did a full season's hunting in 1981
Third - 9 yr old tbxconnie, paid £450 with tack (didn't fit), budget was the £500 from the welshie. Sold her for the same money 5 years later to my bestest friend, she passed away aged 32! (mare that is, friend still going strong!)
Fourth - 9 yr old TBxCB, paid £950, budget was £1500 but came with nothing.
Fifth - 17 yr old sec d, gifted and was my horse of a lifetime until he passed last year.

The above were horses that were 'mine', I've dabbled, many years ago, in picking up cheapy projects to sell on but stopped after a very bad experience.
Markie, my current horse, cost £1000. My budget was £400 if on island or £200 if I had to travel across the water! I wasn't looking for a riding horse. However, saw his advert and knew he was the one. At the same time, my friend (who bought the tbxconnie from me) decided to loan her mare to her sharer (you don't bounce from sharp horses in your 40's, lol). Scraped the money together and bought him. Didn't attempt to haggle as she had a queue of people ready to buy. His original advert said basic tack but I got about 4k worth of stuff with him, he barely fitted in our truck after all of the gear was loaded!
 
Blimey a real mixed bag on here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Elvis was £4500 and i brought him 2months ago from a dealer with no tack. He was advertised for £5000. My budget was about £3,500 but i completly feel in love with his video and pictures for some reason.

He was much younger than i was looking for, as i set out to buy a chunky well schooled cob.

He's 7 year old chunky irish sports horse. Although he's not had much schooling he is an absolute saint to do on the ground and hack which is exactly what i needed. He never puts a foot wrong and is currently starting to school beautifully. He puts older horses to shame out hacking!
 
Chico was advertised at £2000 - I finally bought him for £1000.
Sent him away to be backed at £300.
So all in all my gorgeous ridden boy cost me £1300 :D
 
I wasnt looking! I had a palomino gelding at the time, i was over at my trainers having a lesson when she arrived. Love at first sight. Mum said i could buy her on the condition i sold mine within a week (i sold him the next day to a fab home!)

Dee was supposed to be £13.5k as a newly broken 3 year old, but due to a bit of wheeling and dealing (and knowing breeders) got her for £9k. I sold my palomino for £5,500 (bought for £1,500) and mum put the rest of the money into buying dee.

I knew she was the one :)
 
Paid £800 for my mare, fab mare and iv had her 9 yrs.
£200 for my daughters first pony, still got him.
2nd daughters pony was free to good home.
£400 for ex racer who's fab.
£200 for a highland foal who's my babe
£100 for a tb x nf foal.
All still with me, my family :)
 
beanie was £2000, as a 4 year old.
My new boy, tamar, 16.2 11yr old, appy x id/tb cost me the enormous, grand total of ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,£1.00. And he's gorgeous!!! :D
 
3 of my TB's were gifted to me by their owners when they finished racing.

Jeff was originally bought by his owners for £20k, he won them £60k so he paid them back lol.

Kyle was only £10k, he won £26k. I got him because he injured himself and could no longer race.

Gray, Pedro will never tell me how much his sister paid for him but I have a sneaking suspision it was around the $40-50k mark before transport to Britain. He wont them £18k before he broke down so I now have him.

The TB I paid for was only a £100 donation to the ROR. Laurel was a £30k yearling purchase but again left racing through injury.

All of my TB's are Show Horses now.

Of the Natives the most expensive that I still have is my Fell Pony who was £1250. My Nan bough him for me for my birthday - along with a M2M saddle and a brand new Ifor Williams trailer to truck him around in ... He was a freshly broken 4yo who had only ever cantered with a human on board once before I got him - and the rider fell off and broke her collar bone. He is one of the best ponies I have ever had!

The one we paid the most for but no longer have was a Welsh C mare. She was £1800. A really cracking pony that I wanted to break and ride. Being a Welsh mare however she was having none of it so she has gone back to resume broodmare duties.

I bought a shetland back for £1200 as a 5yo after my mother sold him as a 2yo for £250. I wouldn't ever sell him again, he is too quirky.

Most of the other shetlands cost between £200 and £800, most towards the higher end of the spectrum, except for Flint who I got on loan 11 years ago and still have. 3 are homebreds, 2 by our own stallion and 1 was inside the mare when my mother bought it.

The darty was given to me as a present by my Gran, again for a birthday. He came as a 3yo fresh off of dartmoor. I broke him, schooled him and took him out showing - you could ride him in a headcollar in the field not a bother. He did well enough then went down to a producers on loan and thats where everything went wrong. He is now cold backed, won't load and stubborn as. At one stage he was verging on being worth £8k, now I can't even give him away on loan - though I am very fussy about where he would go to be honest given his quirks.
 
I had a budget of £1500, went looking at a few, none took my fancy. A month later ended up with a beautiful tb, ex racehorse, who had done affiliated dressage, hunting and showing. He is gorgeous, completely affectionate and trusts me, as well as being a full blown mummy's boy!!

The only downside was that he spent 4 years in a field basically untouched.

I got him for free.

He's got a home for life.
 
I had a budget of £1500, went looking at a few, none took my fancy. A month later ended up with a beautiful tb, ex racehorse, who had done affiliated dressage, hunting and showing. He is gorgeous, completely affectionate and trusts me, as well as being a full blown mummy's boy!! He's going competing next year with me.

The only downside was that he spent 4 years in a field basically untouched.

I got him for free.

He's got a home for life.
 
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