What have you bought for under £2500?

Love this thread. :)

Mine and my sisters horses, all of these under 1.5k, but we put in the work!

The only one we've spent more than 2.5k on has had about 15k in vets bills in the 4 years we've had him! He was supposed to be our safe school master, turned out to be anything but!

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Both mine . £2.3k for then 10yo gelding who roars and bucks but I just fell in love with him ... And £2.5k for project 5yo who was supposed to be sold on after a few months work and is now proving to be such a star she is staying for good!
 
My boy came to me last april from someone I know. He was rising 11, TB I'd x APPY. 16.2 and had BSJA, PC, dressage and BE 90. He was surplus to her requirements and hadn't. Done any work over the winter at all. Hence the reason I got him for the grand total of £1 !!! He is juts gorgeous, a whimp sometimes but gorgeous :)
 
My youngster I got him for exactly 2500, however I knew his owners, his Dam and watchd him grow up so I knew what I was getting.

My Arab mare was free as she was neglected and abandoned a number of years ago (love her to bits!), and we've done everything together i.e. dressage, show jumping, cross country, showing (county) etc.

A youngster I had who was PTS last summer was 1500 (miss you everyday little man) and a few welsh ponies I had cost me no more than 300, who I broke in and sold on to some lovely families with children who love them to pieces!

I probably would never spend 2500 again though. You can get some lovely horses for well under that price bracket.
 
3 horses and their tack (where applicable) for under £2500.
6 year old piebald Gypsy vanner gelding (good breeding) in 2006 from Leominster sales, green and just broken to ride. £1800 ( excluding vetting at the sales and transport). Prices were good that day and the coloureds especially were fetching money.
9 month old tri-coloured cob x gelding £250 bought privately ( cost around £40 to transport from memory?)
Then 16 year old ex racer TB mare free ( transport was free, came from stud)
Saddle for cob £100 (leather, not cheap imported) and £50 synthetic saddle for mare, both secondhand.
Bridle for mare, breastplate ( all leather, not cheap imported) and bit cost around £30, all secondhand
Bridle for cob (part Sabre, part english leather), neue schule bit and breastplate £65, all second hand.
 
I did get a bargin in the end but at the time it was a def heart over head purchase. Paid 2k in 96 for a 5 year old school cob who only scraped into being a horse, who had a a habbit of bucking people off and jumping on them. She turned out to be a horse of a lifetime, was an absolute dream to own, not a bad bone in her body. We ended up jumping aff and taught me more than i could put into words.
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BoolavogueDC said:
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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If you are lucky and can see behind some crap adverts and and sometimes a less than beautiful (at the time) horses, you can get some stunning horses dirt cheap.
Dont need to be the next carl hester, dont need to be a vet.

I do however think you will find they would nessecarily be everyones cup of tea, and they will need work even if they are in no ways naughty/nasty.

My girl was fat as a house and green as grass, she had a crap advert, and no one looked at her. she is strong as hell but she is 100% dependable when you need her to be, she gives you her heart in everything she does, and she just needed someone to listen. She is a horse of a lifetime.
 
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1k-pretty but has a few issues.
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£1250 and worth his weight in gold
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Free-and my horse of a lifetime-RIP
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And my current one-on lwvtb-will hopefully be buying him at around the 1.5k mark!
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I got him for free :
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I got her for free :
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I got him for £750 at weaning, now rising 3, I worked on the stud that bred him at the time :
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And last but not least I am buying her in installments but will be £2000 when I've finished :
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My partner bough our Dyllan for £250 as a colt from the meat man, he's now rising 2 but worth every penny! Temperament to die for such a loving character, never kick or bitten us! And our Albus, registered connemara class 1 we got for a steal at well under 1500 including delivery. 5 year old, amazing pony can't wait for this seasons showing with him!

It's just funny that we have friends at our yard who have paid near and over the 4k mark and have had endless of problems yet here we stand with two well-mannered, fit and healthy ponies!
 
£1800 for this one coming up 7 years ago...nappy bolshy thing that turned into a fab allrounder despite not really seeing the point of dressage...hopefully doing some competing again this year.
31st Dec 2011 age 12 :) 13 this year!!
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2006 when she was 7:
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And this cost absolutely nothing:
12 month old (we think) with worms, corrective trimming needed and an attitude-sometimes..we'll see if he turns out to be worth anything :D
Early Dec 2011:
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Harmony (rising 4) bought before she was born

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Magic £700 with tack

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Harry, £400 including delivery

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None have really done anything, Magic and Harry were RS ponies, Magic is a fantastic anyone's ride but mostly nanny now. Harmony not yet backed. Harry, mostly blind is just a pet :)
 
My handsome boy was a whole £300 - unrideable apparently!! :rolleyes:
The fact he was so cheap made up for the fact my other baby cant be entered into this post!

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Beautiful horses, unfortunatly im not blessed with talent as a rider and had to pay double this amount to get my boy who will never be bsja but vvvv sane.

Winkle poker... i'm loving your colour co ordination looks absolutly fab!!!!!
 
Peejer was £900 including delivery 2hours away!

He did look like this....
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But now he looks like this....
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And he is safe enough to do this...
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And this....
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(Very sad that I have to sell him next spring!)
 
This thread is seriously tempting me to go get a wee project with my student loan despite knowing this is a silly idea as I would probably terrify myself and would have little financial back up oh well I can dream :rolleyes:
 
http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...762676715408_771435407_20052800_4036330_n.jpg lola- 4yo nf pony, freebie at 4month old- was totally wild, recently backed, totally brave but gotta take things slow, she used to be a witch!

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...4376795408_771435407_20878719_781361057_n.jpg rufus- bought for 250 with saddle and bridle as 6yo, only backed pony - suffers with self confidence but is super genuine, has placed almost every time out, jumps the moon and is such a sweetie, but used to be scared of everything and panicked about it too- seen at work being a model for a day, clipped and plaited in store :) didn't put a foot wrong oteher than evacuating his bowels on shop floor :p

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...606693415066_895050065_18612697_6235781_n.jpg frankie, my pony of a lifetime, given to me at 10months old as a bolshy colt because his owner didn't like him, he is quite possibly the easiest, most trying horse I have ever met- only 5yo, and he will never ever be sold- hoping to take him be this year and he hunts snaffle mouth and will jump anything x

Grand total of 250 quid and wouldn't change them for the world!
 
£5. Loaned him for 4 years from when we were both 13 then bought him when we were 17. Horse of a lifetime. I definitely got lucky, I'd have bought him if he had three legs and two tails I knew so little back then. I thought he taught me loads but when I got my next one after he died very unexpectedly (aged 27), I realised he was the one who knew it all and I was just a passenger. Trusted him with my life like I've never trusted another horse. He's 25 in this photo, doing the Badminton ride. :D

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Personally I have never paid anywhere near that much for a horse or pony. The most exspensive ones were my Fell, a Welsh C and one of my homebred Shetlands that I bought back for £1200 a piece. My Fell pony is my pride and joy. He is with me for life now. I bought him as a freshly broken 4yo and no you couldn't have a nicer, more genuine pony. The Welsh C I bought as a 6yo broodmare with the idea of breaking and showing. She didn't want to be ridden so she has returned back to her breeders for broodmare duties. THe Shetland was a homebred that we sold as a 2yo for £250 and I then bought him back as a ridden 5yo. He is with me for life as well as he has too many quirks but is SOOOOO much fun!

3 of my TB's were given to me as I rode them in work. Kyle is a menace, stubborn and generally lazy. Gray is almost ready to ride again when the ground softens up then he will be a cracking ROR horse. Jeff is like my Fell pony, he my total pride and joy and he is with me to the very end of his days! I went through hell and high water with him in his racing career and the road still isn't smooth as a show horse lol! My other TB, Laurel, I gave a £100 donation to ROR for. Richard Fahey does this with all of his that leave training. It's his way of putting money back into retraining them.

Of the others here at home some are homebreds, others are bought in but none cost more than 1k - and yes we are talking Shetland ponies here :D Nowt but the best!
 
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