What is the most amount of money you would pay for a horse?

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I am the type of person who would rather take on a youngster and bring it on myself or look for something that with a little work could have great potential.would you rather have a horse that had been there and done it so it was ready to go straight away or would you be prepared to put in some time to achieve things for yourself. What sought of money would you personaly be prepared to spend on your ideal horse.?
 
Having bought two youngsters and brought them on if i was to buy again i would buy an already produced one as even though i learnt loads from backing the two it takes time that i dont have anymore. But i wouldnt be able to spend lots of money... so i would have to prob buy an unbacked youngster again! But i dont have to think of that at the moment as i have a uperstar who i wouldnt trade for the world. I would prob pay 7k max though for a younger one that hadnt done as much but still had potential though! But I AM glad i dont have to go trough the buying process for a while yet!
how much would you spend on a youngster max?!?
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Not sure difficult one really because im into showing i dont really look for one that has potential to jump. I suppose confirmation,pedigree and true to type are what i look for. I paid £650 for both my horses one i got offered about 15k for and the baby i have now have been offered 4k for he was up for sale but now i have decided to keep him.I suppose maximum of 3k it is amazing how you can pick up a rough diamond and polish it up.
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Having youngsters myself and then going through the whole process I think ideally I'd rather have something already at that level. I would love to one day buy a dressage schoolmaster to teach me and be able to compete at a higher level.

It depends how much money I have in 10 years time, but probably £15k is the most I'd spend.
 
Depends how much I had! If my purse was loaded who knows?!
If I were looking for something now for dressage, showing, hacking I would think my budget would be £10,000 - £12,000. I wouldn't mind taking something on that was younger/greener.
 
Truthfully, I haven't any money to spend so the last 2 horses have been unbroken one was £2500 and the new one £3000. First one I dread to think of new price tag, and baby is still unproven (as 3!) but I would say has easily doubled!!! Horse before was 3K as a failed 6yo SJ, (but was 6 years ago) and we've gone from first ODE to 3days and intermediate.
If I had the money I would love to buy a couple of experienced horses, to give me the experience to help bring the youngsters on to the higher levels.
 
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Not sure difficult one really because im into showing i dont really look for one that has potential to jump. I suppose confirmation,pedigree and true to type are what i look for. I paid £650 for both my horses one i got offered about 15k for and the baby i have now have been offered 4k for he was up for sale but now i have decided to keep him.I suppose maximum of 3k it is amazing how you can pick up a rough diamond and polish it up.
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wow thats quite impressive, where did you get them from? So have they proven themselves now or is this ducklings (note not ugly!) turning into swans?!?
 
Even if I were a millionaire, I'd probably not spend over £10k on a horse. I don't need to though, I wouldn't be looking for a world-beater as my riding will never be that standard. I'd always need a safe, sane, sensible schoolmaster. I'd love to compete at GP dressage one day, but not seriously. Getting to advanced would be fab. Realistically I will only ever jump up to 3' so Badminton would be a bit much! So I'd always prefer a horse who had been and done it and wanted to show me the ropes, especially as I have confidence issues.
I would, however, not mind spending £10k each on two horses to do different things if I had the money (eg. one horse to do solely dressage on, one to jump).
Sadly my budget is generally £3k every time I go horse shopping. Spent £1500 on my first pony and sold her for the same four years on, despite her getting a bit nutty while I had her! Bought Maiden for £3k without negotiation, that was my limit and she was worth every penny. Next year I will be looking at horses up to £3500, with a budget of £3k. Still looking for my safe schoolmaster, but I wouldn't expect it to get to GP!
 
I like to have something I can do stuff with, IMO there's always scope for a horse to improve, and I enjoy having a project. I'd probably not spend over 6 k on a horse, because I'm not into competing.
 
arab mare was very sucessful in the show ring got her as a three year old had apparently arab raced was a total nutter re schooled her and we did extremely well.Youngster pba paid £650 when he was 11 months old he was nice looking but a little sod have had to do a lot of handling .He is really handsome now have lunged and long reined and will go away in spring to be professionaly broken as i have no one to help me get on him. Someone wants him as a potential county level show horse but i want to keep him now as i would like to take him to that level myself he was the rough diamond!
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£1500-2000 as I would happily buy an exracer and reschool it myself to do what I want to do - hoping to get another exracer next year, will expect to pay around £1500 for her and paid £1700 each for the 2 two I have now...

Did once pay £3500 for a horse, certainly wouldnt pay that much again.
 
When I was looking for a horse I had 6k and thought it would get me something reasonable. I was very disappointed with most of the horses I saw - twisted legs, ridiculous actions etc... I started to think I wouldn't find anything with a hope of getting to Pre-Novice BE for less than 10k. Ended up buying my mare who is in another class to most of the horses around at 5.5k but who is pretty screwed up in the head! I'm not sure if I would have spent more if I had had more - I like my mare, she intrigues me.
 
Well the most I have paid for a horse was £3k and that includes Dan that took me on to jump some YR classes and the odd 1m30 in addition to national champs.

Parents did spend £5k on one of my ponies but was worth every penny. He was only 6 at the time but was good proven prospect for all disciplines and proved so taking me to compete BD elementary (including pony national classes (not FEI!)) and JA BSJA!

I wouldn't want to go over the 5K mark if looking again, infact would prefer about the 3k or lower. I like youngsters to bring on, always have, as well I ldo ike my bargins
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i would pay upto 20k for a really special youngster.i prefere to get youngsters to bring on from 2-5yrs old and i dont mind paying for a horse that really moves/jumps esp if its a mare/filly bred really well!
 
It really depends. I love bringing them up through the ranks, but pay penuts for them to start, but now I feel I would't want to take a step back if I lost ours. I would hate to ave to go through all the levels again.
 
£1500.
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I always argue with my OH that we should spend more, and he always tells me to be patient, and something will turn up...
And it always has; I got 2 grade A's for that amount.
Last week we bought my new horse, a big CBx hunter, for under £1000. He is a cracking find
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Well having taken on Gem with numerous problems and re-schooling her with the help of my instructor i realised how much a horse can be damaged by incorrect work. I spent years getting her as far as she was going to go so when i decided to buy another horse i really wanted to buy a blank canvas so i didn't have to spend months/years etc un-doing things. Obviously that wouldn't have always been the case but the first horse i went to try had only been lightly backed and it was already dead to the leg and bored stupid in the school. That made me decide that i should just go and get something unbacked and so i bought Ru. I paid £6250 for him and don't regret a penny.

I waited for so long to get the horse i wanted (having always had loans / sis pony / mum's horse) that the money was worth it and i waited till i could afford exactly what i wanted. Saying that where i bought him from i saw about 10 WB's and i then got so confussed because they were all beautiful in different ways it was actually quite stressful, i almost didn't get to see Ru as he wasn't really up for sale yet but i'd spotted him in the barn and fell in love with his cute face and long gangly legs! So far though he's proving to be perfect for me and hopefully we have a long future together. It's a lovely thought to have a horse that has 'been there and done that' but i'm getting a lot of pleasure from all the first things i'm doing with Ru.
 
The most I have paid for a horse is £450!! My current one was "gifted" to me after our loan period worked out, as noone else wanted him. they are all spitting now though.

it would scare me having to go out and buy one now though. prices are a bit crazy. Would probably end up going for a youngster or one that has "problems" like my current boy had.
I guess £3000 at the very very most.
 
Paid £2750 for current horse including tack and rugs.

Would love to think I could go looking for a youngster in the £4500 to £5000 range on day, don't think I could bring myself to pay more than that for a horse though!
 
As much as I can afford - if I won the lottery I'd love to have a proper SJ schoolmaster to teach me the ropes. I'd pay as much as it took to find the right horse. Nowadays, I'd limit myself to £6,500 (which was my limit when looking for current horse). I'm still relatively inexperienced so need something fairly straightforward (which you have to pay more for).
 
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