What have you bought for under £2500?

Never paid more than £1500 for any of mine....cos I is a tight wad.

Fantastically bred arab with issues ( now sorted- cracking oss) =£1500
Unregistered highland - fantastic little pony- well handsome- bombproof, jumps like a stag = £1100
Irish cob- will drive, - loves team chasing- £1250
 
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Less than half of £2500!! :D
 
I got both of these two for Less than 2.5K - I paid 2k for the mare, and the foal made an appearance later on down the line :D
My lovely Starla x

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I paid £1500 for my current boy he has Primitive rising bloodlines on his mothers side and his father is Jendali, which is Naijinsky, Northern Dancer lines. He will hopefully event. He's just a big girl! :D

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Bert- £500 from ascot Sales

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Bronson- £1!

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Boris £500

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Sharola £1200

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Emily- Free!

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Copper £1000

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Fella £2500

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Hastie £2250

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Charlie £1250
 
Some lovely horses on here. I cant believe they were all bought for less than 2.5k. Im currently horse hunting and have been told that I'll be lucky to get a sane horse for my budget of 3.5k.
 
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This is not my horse but I thought it was relevant to the thread. Under a grand for this mare? yeesh, she looks gorgeous, I appreciate that arabs are not everyone's cup of tea but she looks good to me. (I think her dam may be anglo not pure bred as her pedigree on allbreed shows her as such but I know allbreed is not entirely reliable so not certain - still a nice mare).

I have been window shopping a bit recently and there are loads out there, lovely 4/5 year old 14hh-15hh Welsh D, Highland, TBxPony, Cob mares all for under a grand and most at least greenbroke.
 
Cavaletti - I think something will have to give eventually but I don't know what that will be, maybe it wont be the colour you like, or maybe it wont like being in the stable or something, but I'm sure you'll get there eventually :)
 
Not quite as impressive as some of the others on this thread but the sanest youngster I've ever come across, my TB X Cob, who's now rising 2. Take a zero off £2500 and you'd be close.

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Paid under £500 for my clydesdale x and £1000 for a tb x with full english tack because home was more important than price.

Some people just think of the price not the home.
 
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Some absolute stunners there.

I don't know if anyone will notice this question now, but do you think you need to be knowledgable, an excellent rider, clued up on conformation/faults etc to make a budget horse work - or can you just have good luck to make a cheap horse, priceless?
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Luck does have a lot to do with it, but you probably have to be prepared to compromise and /or put in a bit of work. The main reason my bargain were bargains was because they weren't everyone's cup of tea. The polo pony had only been schooled for polo and this did have some advantages, he was incredibly well balanced and found things like walk to canter very easy, but as soon as you touched his mouth his ears were up your nose!! After lots of schooling, if I gave him a contact he would pop himself on the bridle, highly rewarding. Life in polo also made him completely bombproof and so so easy to do in every way, but he was still quick so probably wouldn't have suited the average happy hacker. He was sold from polo because although he was happy to stick and ball, he did not like the rough and tumble of a game.

The other two were not really novice rides and certainly not for the nervous!! Though a confident novice probably would have been fine (I'm sure a confident teen would have had a ball on them!) as neither were at all naughty, one was just fast and strong, the other quick, fast and very sharp and spooky. He also needed his rider to give him confidence. The main reason I regret selling that one was that the new owner, although not a novice, completely ruined his confidence and then punished him for it :(
 
£800.00 for my TB including all tack rugs/feed bins and feed! and lots of other bits and bobs its taken a lot of hard work to get him to what he is now (hours of riding a day) he now works nicley in an outline and have a brilliant jump!

very eager to learn (hes 7 in march) 15'2 (without shoes lol)
Racename Gelert!

i think i got a bargin because hes an absolute gem, and never puts a foot wrong and we have both learnt so much together!

here he is about 2 weeks ago and again on the beach 3 days ago :)

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Major - 16.1 6yo (he was 5 when i got him) TB Renashaan x Pivotal, flat raced as a 2yo then had a few years off in the field and i bought him out of the field. £1000

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Danny was £1750 in 2002.

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You might be able to see the dent in his forehead where he was hit with a hammer before we got him (vet diagnosed hammer or base ball bat- farrier confirmed hammer)... he was a scared little boy when I got him (at 7 years old) but now we're a force to be reckoned with!!

(and you can see that I employ the popular schooling method of staring at the poll to encourage the horse on the bit using jedi powers!)
 
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LOVE THIS THREAD!!!

This monkey was £600-Possibly a little over priced but he is a complete star (he's rising 3 Arab x welsh b)
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& Kara... She did BE & BSJA...only 14hh... cost us £2500...but she was amazing! Full arab, and now a veryyyy good games pony!
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And Chaz... a little ****!! They said we could take him & they'd claim on insurance! Hes so cool! Jumps massive, shame he's a bit of a nutcase!
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& there is Shoni too...she cost us 1k and sold her for 5k with people still fighting over her! She was ammaaazing! Pic of when I got her...haha :D She is a BE, BSJA, PC & hunting pony. The best pony in the world!!

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These two monkeys are my latest buy...2 nf fillies, £60 each :D
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£200 for my colt foal section a, and £150 for my Gypsy vanner Colt

Both are worth more imo! My friend originally bought my oldest boy for £75, but as she piled food and wormer in to him i gave her more. Still a hell of a bargain for two fantastic ponies that i cant find faults with! :D
 
Harry was abit over but came with all his rugs and tack, he's amazing and taught me loads, priceless to me
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Una my newly purchased one was well under, but needs quite abit of work :)
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All of ours have been under £2500- we only ride as a hobby and compete for a bit of fun so even though we can afford more, we are unwilling to as I would hate to spend £5k plus on a horse for it to go lame!!

We got our 15hh 7 yr old middleweight (now sadly pts :( ) over 16 years for £1300- he had jumped and knew basic schooling. He turned into our horse of lifetime and I think I would pay more than £2500 for a horse like him!! He did pc, showing, xc, dressage, sj, ode- everything and all so well!! I miss him so much :(

A 13hh 3 yr old pony about 14 years ago for probs a few hundred pounds- he had done nothing! Was me and my sisters first pony, had character but a good jump and good pony club alrounder. We sold him aged 11 for about £1500 and bought him back 2 years later for £1000. He's now a field ornamanent

A 16hh 11 yr old middleweight mare over 7 years ago for £2000. She had BSJA'd and we got her for quite a good price as we were the type of home her old owner wanted for her.

A 15hh rising 5 welsh cob for £1900. Registered and knew how to trot and pop a cross pole but that was about it! Now two years later, he easily jumps 85cm courses, does dressage, showing, hunting, xc and hopefully his first ODE this year! I like to think he'd be worth a bit more than I paid for him.

and lastly, 15hh 11 yr old connie for £2400. He had done a fair bit of showing and dressage but didn't really jump. We've had him nearly a year and he seems to be coming around with the jumping, loves xc and hunting though!!

I read about people easily buying amazing horses for barely any money, but when I was looking, I really struggled to find nice ones that met my criteria. I don't like tb's which narrows down the budget market and not too keen on mares which seems to cut it down even more! When I was searching for my welsh cob, I had a vague budget of £2500 but in 5 months, I only rang up a few horses. I only went to view 3 (including him) as I'm quite fussy with what I like! :)
 
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