Price of horses: sorry know it's been done before but........

[Cortez]

Horses are expensive generally, to produce and to keep. Except sometimes they are cheap; occasionally they are even free. This is because they are not intrinsically essential items in this part of the world. This is neither unfair (the premise of the previous thread), nor surprising.

 

[sport horse]

Or alternatively someone had an old retired mare, took her to their mates stallion up the road, left the mare in their field for a year till she foaled by herself. Wait two years, do nothing with the foal and then want £6000 for their trouble. We just don’t know !

Fortunately not too much of that sort of breeding nowadays. In fact all breeding numbers are vastly down throughout Europe so if demand stays constant prices will not fall. Who knows?