Price of an ex-racer

It really depends on the quality of the horse- prices start at £400 at Ascot sales, you can often pick them up free or very cheaply if you have contacts to yards but expect the nicer ones to have more value. I woul always pay a little more for something with excellent conformation and no history of injury.
 
ladyt25 said:
Free! Well, my mate tends to get given them for free anyway.
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why is there no where near me that does this? the one up the road sells for 1000 or above! i am looking extremely shortly for one as will need company for my own mare when i move to my new place. would ideally like to take on 2 even if one is a companion and one to hack etc. instructor/friend has lots of tb's experience so wont be lost for help should i require it lol x
 
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My friend and her husband used to work for the local racing yard and she still occasionally does a bit of clipping for him and helps with the babies. Therefore they are told about ones going begging regularly and have taken on a few in the past which they have reschooled and sold on as riding horses.

They actually saved one that a friend of my mum's had as she was going to have him PTS having had no success with trying to sell him through sales livery. He was full brother to Young Kenny who sadly was fatally injured racing. This one too though had fractured his leg and had a plate in it so this probably put off many people even though his temperament was great and he was only 6 i think. My friend took him on (didn't pay a penny), tried to put him back into racing but he just didn't have the attitude for it so they spent time schooling him and sold him to a RC home and I believe he was doing very well.
 
alfiesmum said:
why is there no where near me that does this? the one up the road sells for 1000 or above! i am looking extremely shortly for one as will need company for my own mare when i move to my new place. would ideally like to take on 2 even if one is a companion and one to hack etc. instructor/friend has lots of tb's experience so wont be lost for help should i require it lol x
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Not always if you ask nicely ;)
 
I get given a few but then i have experience of dealing with the retraining of exracers.
As to price i dont think you can say a price as each is worth a different amount that is like saying every warm blood is worth x amount
 
I have two - the one I paid £300 for has been a complete star and still is. He has the worst conformation of any Tb I have ever seen, his legs are a write off but apart from when he fractured his leg, he has very very rarely been off work, although he is now semi retired.
The mare with lovely conformation and temperament who I paid £1200 in april last year has cost me £10k in vets bills and due to a now new condition - details of which I am not going to go into - may render her unrideable from now on, although investigations are under way.
So although I would always be tempted to look at horses with a slightly higher price tag, I don't always believe that they are better in the long term. This mare was sold to me as dressage/event potential etc and no vetting would have found her problems out, so I think buying one because it has "potential" to event/dressage/show etc is complete crap.

Look at what's standing in front of you and make your decision on that - not the price tag.
 
pastie2 said:
OK, they are worth begger all, but if that is the reason you want to buy one I would seriously think again. Unless you have the knowledge and experience of racehorses, the price of them is the last thing you should worry about.Also anyone that is in the know about them would already know that they are worthless. Buy a cob.
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That is the truest things I have ever seen written on this entire forum!
 
I may have acquired one on the off chance today, depending on if it can race again or not, tweaked it's suspensory I think. Sound in all paces and jumping, but if it can't stand up to the training then it's no use. Cost £80,000 as a yearling :p I expect it either to be free or a nominal sum up to £500.

Lovely temprement, easy ride, sweet little chap actually!

I'd probably bring him on to sell eventually, do some ROR with him, low level dressage when he's ready, nice sweet all round horse for someone, if he's nice enough might even keep him for myself :p

Knowing my luck he will be fine to race, ha!
 
Well Major wasn't off the track, my friend got him in 2008 and turned him away but also did some ground work with him. She has sold him to me for £1000, he is a very nice un-spoilt horse and has obviously already been given the time to grow up and have baby time! I did however have to totally re-start him.

Saph i bought for a pound out the field, but she is much more difficult than Major has been.
 
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