Recommendations please

[Welly Boot]

Where is the best place to look for a warmblood with the quieter disposition to be trained to come up through the levels in dressage and lower level event? It's not a breed I've really considered before but am done with TB's breaking too easily.... and I am sure you lovely people can help point me in the right direction? Should i import from abroad or is there somewhere in the UK?

Is 10k a realistic budget to get me a non world beater but something kind & trainable? Green is not a problem but dangerous behaviour is a no go....

Any help is much appreciated

 

[spacefaer]

Warmblood is not a specific breed. It's catch all term for sports horses from (in the main) continental Europe and the UK. There is a huge variety of temperaments and physical types.
There is also a lot of TB blood in the modern warmblood.
Not being a TB is no guarantee of soundness. Some of the unsoundest horses I've known have been warmbloods, some of the soundest and toughest have been TBs!

I'd look for a horse that suits you in terms of temperament, talent and conformation, rather looking for a "warmblood" per se.

Price - wise - who knows. Prices are very erratic at the moment following the massive covid increase. You might find one within your price range or you might be asked double for the same horse - depending on the vendor and their need to sell.

 

[Ceifer]

Warmblood is not a specific breed. It's catch all term for sports horses from (in the main) continental Europe and the UK. There is a huge variety of temperaments and physical types.
There is also a lot of TB blood in the modern warmblood.
Not being a TB is no guarantee of soundness. Some of the unsoundest horses I've known have been warmbloods, some of the soundest and toughest have been TBs!

I'd look for a horse that suits you in terms of temperament, talent and conformation, rather looking for a "warmblood" per se.

Price - wise - who knows. Prices are very erratic at the moment following the massive covid increase. You might find one within your price range or you might be asked double for the same horse - depending on the vendor and their need to sell.

This.
Do your research, I’ve known (and unfortunately purchased) warmbloods with problems. 2 with neurological issues and 1 with a sacro problem. All three sailed through vettings. Horse soundness/longevity can be down to luck.
The one warm blood mare I purchased had the best conformation you could wish for and her neuro problems made her unpredictable.

 

[Annagain]

If you're looking at low level eventing and a bit of dressage, you could do that with pretty much any sound, trainable, vaguely talented horse. I'd look for an individual horse that fits your bill rather than limiting your search to a specific breed / type. Welsh, ID, Connemara maybe crossed with some TB would all fit the bill.

 

[nutjob]

I have 3 wb, one is an unrideable wobbler, retired at age 4, one is recently sound having spent the last 18 months intermittently lame with a suspensory ligament injury. Prior to this he had a fall and it took a year of rehab on top of steroid injections to get him moving properly again due to SI injury. I won't be jumping him now because of past injuries - he's 12. He's only done dressage to elementary and jumped 90cm so nothing particularly challenging. I've just bought a 4yo, I had a bigger budget than you but I wanted something with better than average paces as I do more dressage than jumping now. There are sub £10k wb for sale, including one which I was interested in where the price was dropped when it failed the vetting for me (not mentioned in advert). I think at this price you don't need xrays for insurance.

So my personal experience is that they don't prefer to stay sound and you need a bigger budget.

It took me 6 months, ~1200 miles and ~£1500 in vettings (one horse failed and I wanted some xrays on top of 5 stage) to get my new horse. I'll pm you where I got mine from, he has a few in atm, doesn't advertise except own fb page and via word of mouth.