What have you bought for under £2500?

This is my litte mare. She is completely bombproof but not a notice ride. Love her! She was £775.:)
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Novice event horse, jumped newcomers with me. Nappy bugger so only £2000, but after a few years he stopped napping and became super horse!

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(excuse the leg - sometimes difficult to get leg on when you're a pea on a drum!)
 
All our ponies have been loan ponies, so technically totally free :D

BUT, this mare was advertised for £2k and didn't sell for ages, and then Al was offered the loan of her from the person who bought her at that price:
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She did everything, and although she was a total madam she was also a fantastic little schoolmistress. She did 1.15m SJ without even batting an eyelid, did PC Open ODEs, came 7th out of 120 at PC area SJ despite her rider having smashed her collarbone 2 weeks earlier and told to have 8 weeks in a sling, went to the PC eventing champs and was generally a super star.

I've put in 2 photos, because some ponies are just too fantastic to only have 1... She was only 14.2hh (147.2cm LHC!) but managed to give my sister so much.

Cheeky was totally free, but as he was 21, nearly 22, and completely off his head I can see why :D But he was worth his weight in gold about a million times over.
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how do you guys get such lovely horses for such little money????? Lol

The only one (of my two Lol) that cost me less then £2500 was my unbacked 3yo
He cost just short of £1500
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No photos, but I had a wonderful 16.1 for £1k. I'd had my eye on him for a while, he was advertised for months at a much higher price, eventually owner was desperate to rid so I pounced. Sold him on for over quadruple that a year later and he is now eventing at Novice level with his current owner. Absolutely wonderful horse.

Years ago I bought a 13.2 for £500 and he turned out to be the best pony club pony, he's now retired but has served a number of little riders over the years and jumped some decent decent tracks.

Bargains are definitely out there if you look hard and know what you're looking for!
 
Given to me for free, I backed and broke her myself. She used to follow me everywhere! I lost her to a ruptured diaphragm when she was 6 and I miss her every day.:(

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And one of these...........

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My wee girly!! :D
 
I bought Billy for £500 he was huge, and incredibly naughty. But I loved him. My friend bought him off me when I couldnt keep him and he was lost to re-occuring choke. :(

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When I was 14 or 15 I bought Biff who I loved to bits for £300, I worked with horses at the weekends to pay for him. He was a 12hh Welsh PB.
 
My little mare was well under 1k and she is stunning placed every time, massive jump. Can't load pics though. I did have to back her!
 
Nitty was well under £1000. I won't post a photo as you all know what she looks like :)

BH was a smidge over. But really a smidge over. You know what he looks like too!
 
I don't think we have ever bought one for over £2,500. Here are the horses I own now.

Chuckie I paid £1200 for just over 6yrs ago, he was over priced tho
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Denzel my mums cob was £1650 with tack who we have had nearly 5yrs
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Fly my NF we paid £250 for as a 2yr old, sold him as a 4yr old as he was not suitable & the people that bought him of us rang us up the year before last & just gave him back to us for nothing (we now no why as he has a stiffle problem & arthiritus)
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& finally Murphy my 4yr old that I got last year for £1550 with Bridle
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muddygreymare said:
That first photo doesn't happen to be at Larkrigg RS does it? Looks very like it :)

Some stunning horses on this thread, mine was over £2500 but she's worth so much more to me anyway :)
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Yes it is! It's Rebel who was one of Kevin's old racehorses! I bought him about 10 years ago but we lost him in October..
 
Holly Hocks said:
He is looking nice and svelte in that photo - looking good! :)
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Thanks though that was last winter.

Looking slightly porkier at present as had a lot of time off with one thing and another. He back in full work now though so should soon be looking slim again :) it is the yards fantastic haylage and grazing :)
 
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