Price of Horses

Heidi1

Heidi1

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Is it me or are people pricing unproven youngsters high. Just had a look at a couple and £5950 for a 3 year old and £3950 for a yearling, is this mad or am I been tight..........
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i have a youngster he is piebald but we rescued him from swep for free but u get them for like 6k it is ridiculas
 
I agree. Have an ex-flat racer, paid less than £1k for her, if I sold her tomorrow I could get £5K as an eventer, it's madness. Also have a coloured that didn't pay alot for, but was offered a blank cheque for her last year. Crazy...
 
I think that these are pretty realistic prices - considering that it costs around £2k to just get a foal on the ground.....
 
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I agree. Have an ex-flat racer, paid less than £1k for her, if I sold her tomorrow I could get £5K as an eventer, it's madness.

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Ah, if only that were the case! Trust me, got two lovely ex-racers for sale currently at well under 5k, both re-trained and ready to compete eventing. Cant shift either of them!
 
Regarding the prices depends on the bloodlines and if they are "sought after" or not.

I pay high prices for my breeding mares to get the best bloodlines I can afford, I then keep those mares and breed them to what I believe are excellent stallions. Before I pay for keeping the mare, stud fees (where applicable), vet bills, transport fees etc it has cost me a considerable amount of money.

To get one of my foals on the ground by the stallion Heartbreaker cost me around £4k and I have been offered £10k for her and would not sell her. Not because I want more money but beause I am keeping her.

Like I say it depends on the horses breeding as to the true cost of what they are worth.
 
The prices are high but they must sell them at those figures, otherwise horses proven or not would all be cheaper!
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I have lots for sale, I am asking the same for a 3 y/o just broken as I am for a 6 y/o that is ready to compete, this is to do with their potential and breed etc.
We have foals for sale that we are asking double that for as they have enormous potential as competition/breeding horses.
That is mostly the problem with the pricing of youngstock, you will be paying for the potential, not what is presented at the time.. if that makes any sense at all?
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Yes it does, I would be happy to pay for something that had good breeding and parents had proven records, but these two have an average dam and a good sire, nothing really to write home about.
 
I agree with you. I am looking for something perfectly ordinary, to break to western. I am totally unfussed about breeding, and would prefer it to be between 14.2 and 15.2.
Quite why I am expected to pay over 3000 for that I dont know...
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Well I can provide you with a palomino foal for a grand less than that! But you would have to keep her for a couple years, farrier, vacc's, livery, feed, bedding ect...Does 3000 sound cheap now?
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I think that horses find their own price - if they are not selling at what is being asked then they are priced too high. We buy well bred 3 - 4 year olds bring them on and sell them. We buy top quality stock and that does not come cheaply and is reflected in the selling on price. However when we sell them they jump round a course of coloured fences, school cross country, hack and have travelled to shows in the horse box and are ready for someone to go and compete on. All that takes time and patience so that when the person buys one of our horses they know they will not have any hang ups. We have sold horses to all sorts of people for all sorts of prices from robert Smith to a teenager wanting to compete jrn. They all find the price they are worth.
 
Sure I see your point
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Just thought for something thats just for pleasure riding I could get something for a lot less. *sighs* seems I was wrong lol. Might look at some standardbreds, heard mighty good things about them..

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