How much for these horses?

[rowy]

Ok this is not an advert as I don't even own these horses currently

Basically, some of you know my recent addition, a connie x called Inka. Her breeder has offered me the opportunity to take on some of her other youngsters to back and train and split the profit. So to see if this would work financially and be worth it I thought I would ask on here how much roughly the following horses would cost once produced.

4 year old connie x thoroughbred (although some are ISH x connies) to make between 15- 16hh.
I would have them hacking out well, jumping small courses (max 2ft- 2ft3) and train them as high as I can in dressage before they are sold. It depends on how fast they learn but will be roughly novice level and will get them out starting competing in dressage.

So how much would they sell for?

 

[cbmcts]

The profit depends on the costs of course

Who will pay

Livery and feed
InsuraNCE (essential IMHO)
Farrier
Vet
Chiro (or similar)
Tack/repairs
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Then you need to find out what is the horses 'starting price' ie what does the owner think they are worth unstarted as I doubt that you will get 50% of the selling price! Also when will you be trying to sell - do you have the time/facilities to work them over winter?

Then the price once produced it depends on so many other things - talent, conformation, temperament etc but a 5 year old sound Riding Club type albeit green should make £2 to £2.5k in spring. JMHO but unless very talented you'd be hard pushed to get much more with only minimal miles on the clock/no competition record.

One thing I will say, as with anything to do with money is to get everything in writing.Also, think about what you would do if there are disagreements about sale prices (ie the owner is prepared to take a lower price just to get rid but your share of the profit is only £100 or something equally silly) TBH I wouldn't touch this with a bargepole as you are the only person who can lose - you could end up out of pocket and/or injured. You could agree a fixed fee (in writing) per horse to be paid upon sale if the owner doesn't have the money to pay up front or ideally an hourly rate?