If someone offered you the right price for your neddie here and now...

nope, cos he's not mine to sell. But if I did own him I don't think I could ever sell him, even when the kids outgrew him. Let another kid ride him and help with him so he could have loads of extra love and fun but not sell him. I would miss his cheeky face too much. Hence why he isnt mine, his owners love him too much to sell him. If they offered him to me to buy I'd have him in a flash. So long as his owners let me he has a home for life.
 
I would sell - its only a horse and if it means paying off debts and leaving me enough cash to get another one then my horse would go. Even better if it paid for a house and yard like Escapado did for Carl Hester then it would be gone tomorrow!
Don't get me wrong I like my horse and as I have said in the past if they do not do the job they go and if I was offered serious money then its stupid not to take it.
 
No, no, no and no. There isn't a 'right price'. Sold one two years ago and wish to God I hadn't. Am looking for him now (see Ferdi post, Gallery) and won't rest til I know he's OK. I thought he was going to a home for life and was wrong. Beat myself up every day over it. So sorry Ferdi. Til I find you xx
 
Lets see, sell my lazy, wooden on left rein, non loading, clipper phobic stonky donkey???




Never - she is with me for life because she is so so beautiful and loving (makes up for the lazy!!!)
 
Given I've only just got him the answer would be a definite NO!
Little Luke,with any luck, will be with me for life
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I would sell my mother for the right price.
However I am safe in the knowledge no one would ever make an offer for my horse. People at least like to be able to go in the box with a horse, put a headcollar on and run their hand down its legs before making an offer - that is never going to happen!
 
Yes, but it would need to be significantly more than what I feel is his value, so very unlikely to happen! I would also need to be happy the home was suitable.
 
having recently been offered silly money for Pepper - in cash - and turned it down, I can honestly say NO I would not sell either of my two for any price. I'm too attached and soppy.
 
Every horse has a price....absolutely I would. What price is 'the price' though is harder to determine
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Loads of top riders have literally been 'made' by the sale of one horse. I read somewhere that Will Funnell's horse Comex funded his house and yard. Look at the good ones that he's had since though.

I don't believe in this 'horse of a lifetime' nonsense either. A horse can only be the best you've had SO FAR. Nobody knows what is around the corner...
 
Aslo any horse no matter how good is potentially 5 seconds away from breaking itself permantly and never being able to work again. Personally I could not keep a horse worth 100s of thousands andrisk it possibly being made worthless in an instant!
 
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Aslo any horse no matter how good is potentially 5 seconds away from breaking itself permantly and never being able to work again. Personally I could not keep a horse worth 100s of thousands andrisk it possibly being made worthless in an instant!

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Thats what insurance is for.....
 
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Umm you need to be a millionaire to pay the premiums on a horse worth 100s of thousands, that's if you can even get insurance in the first place.
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He's not for sale, to us he is very special. Have been approached at shows & offered considerably more money than we paid for him but have turned them down. He's with us for the rest of his life. Money isn't everything.
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Aslo any horse no matter how good is potentially 5 seconds away from breaking itself permantly and never being able to work again. Personally I could not keep a horse worth 100s of thousands andrisk it possibly being made worthless in an instant!

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Thats what insurance is for.....

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You ever tried insuring a horse for LOU that's worth more than about £10k
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One of mine is one very long term loan to me, so doesn't count. the other? I was so close last year to selling when the napping was doing my head in, but I realised that even if I got a 'good' price for her I would have to start looking again and might just be taking on another bundle of issues...



...so no
 
suprisingly, i have been offered a fair bit of money for one of mine, but theres no way i'd ever sell him. And my 38 yr old, although nobody would ever want to buy him, we wouldnt sell him anyway. But millie on the other hand, i probably would, as she doesnt like me very much, and if id have too choose to sell one, i would have to be her, but only to the right home!
 
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Insurance won't pay out unless destruction is on Humane grounds not financial grounds. So unles you have a "pet" vet who will certify it was on humane grounds!

Still love the whole "he's my baby I could never part with him, but don't mind shooting him for financial gain" reasoning you are putting forward here
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I said I would sell him, and he is for sale BTW.

If a horse can't do it's job and its only purpose in life is to hobble round a field lame - I would for both financial and humane reason have the horse PTS
 
Nope because after speding 9 months looking for the right horse I realised there are not many horses like him. I have had him over a year now and have a great bond with him (he only comes trotting over in the field to me) I dont think I could sell him even if I wanted to dont think dad would be amused!
 
Well as I only loan william, I dont have a say on if he gets sold.

Ive had him 3 years this winter and we have had so many ups and downs, but I love him like a child and one of the family.

His owner does want him back at some point, but she will never sell him, as she wont even sell him to me
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I agreed a new loan agreement wth her last year that I can keep him till hes 15, hes ten next year so we have another special 5 years together.

Its going to brake my heart when I have to part with my little man..................................


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If I was offered millions of pounds for Fitz I would think about it!! But No I wouldnt sell him I would never ever find anything as bold as him!
 
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