Tactless but... What's the most you've Paid?

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Many will ignore this for obvious reasons, but inspired by the cheap but good horses thread, what's the most expensive horse you've bought or known? And more importantly was it worth it??
My first horse cost nothing and was a gem. My present horse was a little over 2k and has cost about 11k of insurer's money so far! Would'nt swap him though! Over to you.
 
£2500 and he is perfect, the best I've had in that he's well made, moves well, has had a good start in life and was well schooled, perfect to box, shoe, clip, traffic, hacks alone, is safe but fun, lovely, sweet temp, no vices, no health issues, in the past he's evented at PC intermediate so has more than enough scope for what I want to do and I can do any sort of comp on him and come home with a rosette, even handy pony! I have had super horses before, great jumpers but too hot for dressage or showing (they were much cheaper, though), but this one is the perfect allrounder, I'm so lucky to have him and can't believe I bought him for the money I did.
 
Not me but my boss, has 2 x £40,000 + horses that are now just used for his daughters FB pics! But we have great fun on when they are not around!
And a €125,000 horse that was gifted to someone for £1! Mad!
 
the most i paid was 800 for mine but a friend of mine paid £21k for a horse he's now for sale for £5k so she would probably say it wasn't worth it in terms of monetary return however he taught her an awful lot!
 
A 25k broodmare who I bred to a seriously spendy stallion so I have a fair amount of money tied up in this mare. I don't know whether she's worth it yet, will let you know next year once she foals.
 
mmm we've had a few various over the last few years so I'll go with who we have now-
Saffy-£650 as a 9 month old just sold her for 750 (now 19 months, she's an absolute diamond though so gutted to have to get rid)
Meg-had her 8 years another diamond temperament is 100% and done absolutely everything with her. She cost £1800 as a just turned 6 year old and is hopefully going to have a Tobagoling for me in 2015 (so that will probably the most expensive horse I've 'bought' when you think of getting it on the ground..)
Kali-got her last month or, 4 1/2 years old total gem and potential to be a cracking horse when schooled on. She was £2500 reduced from 3250 as the dealer knows us.
Sister spent 4.5k on her warmblood which was a waste and never got to do anything with him, even though he's good to do and ride etc and will never refuse a showjump of any height
also spent 2800 on her first BSJA horse who was lice infested and underweight at a riding school when we found him he was worth a lot of money before breaking down with arthritis etc at only 10 so he's a happy field ornament :)
 
i worked with several horses with values of £50k-£200k all were good at what they did but none set the world on fire. i think the best ones are the cheap ones who turn out to be epic!
 
ummm £800 for current and most certainly worth it.

£1000 for last one who would have been worth it had she not had heart problems (undetected when brought)
 
Have 3, 2 have been diamonds, my 25yo arabxwelsh cost me £700 and she has taught so many children the ropes and saved me losing entry fees a few times, and my 16.2 tb I have had 10 years of great fun on, local shows, endurance rides, hours of hacking, and I have learnt so much with her but don't want to think about how much I have spent on here in vets fees she cost me £1300 as a 2yo, my newest was £750 and he is out at grass at the moment maturing, he was backed and driven quite young by previous owners, so having some time out after being cut, yet to see if he is worth it, but he has a temperament to die for, so soppy even as a stallion.
 
My first boy cost me a fiver. It's a long story he was the horse of a lifetime so definitely worth it!
Arch is the only other one I bought. He was £2,300 in 2005 which at the time was pretty average for a 'made' 9 year old riding club allrounder. Temperament wise he's definitely worth it, but he's had some lameness issues that have limited what he could (was bought to) do but he's a fab hack and will tolerate dressage so he still has a job. He now has melanomas which will probably mean he won't be around as long as I'd hoped either but I'm hoping I'm wrong on that. In pure money terms it hasn't worked out as a good financial deal for me but he's worth every penny to me. I adore him.
 
My most expensive ever was a home bred she cost £3000 to get on the floor and nursing and has cost another 4 to get to selling age but no where near worth her £7000 breeding and raising costs. Was for sale earlier this year for just £2000 not much profit in breeding a raising horses if you do them right
 
Paid £3000 for my last mare, done 10k in vet bills and sold her on for £300 (just fee for tack) as she had some things going on that was an after effect of her surgeries. Home was right and after nearly 7 years of ownership home was more important than money.
 
I paid £1950 for my mare who I've had for nearly 10 years now. Pony was given to me for free. Another pony I bought for £50 and bought a TB mare for £475 who I sold 4 months later for considerably more as turned out to be an amazing horse.
 
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Ooo-er. Was it worth it ?
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Mine or my friend's? :p

Beau has been worth it. He's already improved my riding ten-fold. He's got good breeding, is safe and honest, and has a cracking jump.
I don't think we'll ever find another horse that comes close to him, both in personality and talent. My other two are both great and I wouldn't change them for the world, but B is special.

I can't really comment on friend's horse but he seems pleased with him. :smile3:
 
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I bred mine, the stud fee alone was £1000, by the time he was weaned he cost me about £3k if you take into account the mare's keep. By the time I first sat on him at 4 years he must have cost about £10k. He is the best horse in the world for me. Riding and competing a horse you bred and have trained yourself is they most amazing experience but I wouldn't do it again!!!
 
I always find the concept of worth it a tricky one. As a groom in Canada I had 10 lovely warmbloods to look after. The cheapest was £30,000, the most expensive was £250,000. All were wonderful to ride, won rosettes, had nice manners and were lovely looking. But i have a pony who is wonderful to ride, lovely looking and with nice manners (mostly!) who cost peanuts in comparison. All nice horses but on my budget only mine is 'worth it'!
 
£6k! For a four year old. He hasn't really achieved anything to date for various reasons, but he's pretty to look at! All our others have been £2k or under, so he's the only fancy pants one.

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Purchase price for Jack was £3.5k. Vet fees for a kick 6 weeks after I bought him were about £6k. Livery for the year and a half before I had him PTS about £7k. Various other bits and bobs probably another few k. So probably just under £20k in total for the time I had him. I rode him about a dozen times and was bucked off about 8 of those...
 
Most I've paid is £2000. Most I've know a friend to pay £45,000
Most valuable horse I've ridden was about £300,000!!! And it wasn't a race horse either
 
We paid 3.5 k for mini me's 12hand pony ... Pony worth double that in my eyes but don't think you can put a price on a pony that is versatile enough to do all diciplines and more importantly is utterly safe...
 
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My last horse was £4000. I had upto £15000 to spend but couldnt find the right horse, so bought a 4yo and thought I would spend the rest of my budget trying to make him into what I want and hopefully enjoy the journey!
 
£8.5k for Adrian. He was worth it to start with as he was bounding round discoveries like they were nothing as a 5 yo, & I jumped him up to 1 m 25 in lessons. Then his performance tailed off & after spending 18 months & £5.5k of my & Petplan's money on investigations, it turned out that he had EPSM. So he is now a plod/happy hack. He has a devoted sharer but is no good at all to me.

But then someone paid £68k for Trev when he was winning races, whereas I paid a tiny fraction of that. He is a field ornament/work in progress atm as there's been something wrong with him for a while. I may or may not be finding out what's wrong with him on Friday!

My grandfather paid £200 for Jenny as a 3 yo in 1976 & she was only PTS in July this year at the age of 40, so we probs got our moneys' worth out of her!

£6.5k for the late Catembi - in avatar. By Cruising. V tricky, but my horse of a lifetime. He would jump anything from anywhere. (Adrian's immediate predecessor.) Miss you, Cat xxx

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