Spring Feather
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I often think that. My foals sell (usually pre-weaning) for more than the horse OP is looking at. All based on bloodlines, conformation and movement. If that's not selling potential I don't know what is.
Overpriced?
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I often think that. My foals sell (usually pre-weaning) for more than the horse OP is looking at. All based on bloodlines, conformation and movement. If that's not selling potential I don't know what is.
flyingfeet
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Just to add to this - People expecting a youngster with good breeding and potential for £2k are mad
The cost of putting your mare in foal, scans and vets fees is normally £1,000 to £2,000 add that to the livery of keeping the youngster until mature. Then a 3 year old is around £2,000 or more at cost
Once started and time and effort has been put in any horse with decent breeding should be over the £4,000 mark easily - add in premium for good and straight movement, and a loose athletic ability over a jump and that's where you creep into the £5-6k camp
If you buy cheap unproven bloodlines, then you kind of get what you pay for, you might get a perfectly nice riding horse capable for RC activities, but you won't get something with the potential to advance event etc unless you get very lucky.
I guess the moral of the story is if you are going to breed, you might as well use a top stallion as the whole process is very expensive and fools breed horses for wise men to buy!
The cost of putting your mare in foal, scans and vets fees is normally £1,000 to £2,000 add that to the livery of keeping the youngster until mature. Then a 3 year old is around £2,000 or more at cost
Once started and time and effort has been put in any horse with decent breeding should be over the £4,000 mark easily - add in premium for good and straight movement, and a loose athletic ability over a jump and that's where you creep into the £5-6k camp
If you buy cheap unproven bloodlines, then you kind of get what you pay for, you might get a perfectly nice riding horse capable for RC activities, but you won't get something with the potential to advance event etc unless you get very lucky.
I guess the moral of the story is if you are going to breed, you might as well use a top stallion as the whole process is very expensive and fools breed horses for wise men to buy!
springcollection
Member
Any horse can have potential? for this price I would like to have a little bit of proof 
Goldenstar
Well-Known Member
Any horse can have potential? for this price I would like to have a little bit of proof
The proof for me is in the conformation ofthe horse how it moves , the attiude it shows particularily for jumping and the natural shape it makes over a fence .
Then it's down to feel I get on board the problem with proof at that age is often then you have a hothoused youngster that done a fair bit of work not allways the best thing long term.
Luci07
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By buying a well put together and properly started youngster you are buying potential but have just removed a lot of doubt. Add in that breeding where the lines are known and you have a greater chance of it going well in the future. The same horse, 2 years on with a proven record at say, low level eventing and not topped out will be double the money. I did pay out that sort of money for mine and know his history from being a 2 year old. I know how he was started, and how carefully so, with fingers crossed, I am not going to have to go through what a friend did recently with a hot housed mare. Mare has had to be PTS aged 5 due to chronic and extreme arthritis. Vet believes mare suffered an injury overdoing it aged 3 or 4.