What was the most expensive horse you have ever purchased?

[NIKKI1974]

Im just being nosey now so dont feel you have to reply if you feel i am being too forward. I got both of mine for under £700 not because i didnt want to spend more i was just lucky to find a good bargin!

 

[LadyRascasse]

1500 i'm a cheap skate lol

 

[JoBo]

Bodey (the coloured in my sig), bought for £2400, 2 years ago (quite a lot for an unbacked Gypsy Cob) but just look at him now!

 

[lucym]

my current boy, bought as a 4yo for £5500

 

[vieshot]

£900.......and seeing as ive brought 6 in my time i think thats quite good going!

 

[LankyDoodle]

£3000. But really paid £1500 as £1500 was paid for in the payment we got when our mare was PTS.

 

[TicTac]

I paid £4800 for my mare. She's well bred, beautiful, talented and a tough little cookie.

 

[miss_c]

Mazzie my old horse cost me £6,000, and should have been £8,000. Genie's a lot cheaper, she cost me just over £3,000!

 

[Hullabaloo]

I've only ever bought one horse - before that I had several loan horses.
Boo cost me £3,750. He was an 8 year old who had been taught the basics well and had done a little low level competing. He wasn't a bargain, but I'd say he was a fair price at the time. Mind you I hadn't planned on spending over £3k!

 

[Mrs_Wishkabibble]

8k and he was the worst horse I ever had. He would have been worth that as a rodeo horse maybe but not as the supersafe saint he was sold as!

 

[BroadfordQueen]

We paid *gulp* £9000 for Queenie (the new one) I'm not sure if she is worth it yet, we will find out when eventing comes! *gulp*

 

[JM07]

i have been known to be rash and spend nearly a Grand.

 

[Pancakes]

£1200 but had a vets bill for £2000 for the same horse (nothing related to when i purchased him mind)..........thank god for insurance, lol

ive just collected the rest of my horses from people who didnt want them or who we're giving them away

 

[NIKKI1974]

some nice horses here !

 

[katie_southwest]

I spent 2500 on my mare, and a good little buy she was too!

 

[Enfys]

$4500, sold her a week later out of the field for $6000.

 

[NIKKI1974]

That was a good result !

 

[rema]

£600.I paid that for my old mare,£400 for my big lad as a 6 month old weanling and £500 for my companion mare.Am i a tight s*d you bet ya!.

 

[Ranyhyn]

£3k, but wouldnt spend anything like that now. No need.

 

[Jane_Lou]

£3000 for 3 year old reg connie by Abbeyliex Owen - seemed a lot at the time but compared to prices a year or 2 later was actually quite cheap!

 

[SunSmile]

£1500 for my TBx and £450 for the RP broodmare.

 

[humblepie]

Not a purchase but spent about £7,000 in vets fees on a horse......makes him one of the most expensive horses on our yard!

 

[Cop-Pop]

£400

 

[hannahkirkhill]

£12.500, for a gorgeous chestnut boy when he was eventing at novice....he started Advanced mid season this year, and is awsome

he was worth every penny!!
A real machine XC....yet sensable enough to look after my working pupil round a PN at the end of the season for a 'fun run' -(I know, lucky kid!!)
mmmmmmm I love him

 

[Silverspring]

£1,700 back in 1990 for a registered Highland pony 7 years old out the Grousedean line. Perfect pony worth ever penny, we kept him til he was PTS. £2,800 on a 4 year old Bavarian WB, not so perfect but taught me alot. He was sold on as an 11 year old as I didn't have the time to compete.

The horse I have now was free with rugs

friend needed a good home and I was the only person stupid enough to take her! She has also taught me alot, like how mares are so much more fickle than geldings...oh and to dodge your ass out the way when girthing up!

 

[Moggy in Manolos]

the most we paid was 2k for our section D stally we had years ago, he was good value considering his temperament and bloodlines

my mare who i still have now cost 650 at auction in 1992, i wont spend lots on a hose, mostly because i cant and dont need to, you can get a bargain if you know where to look, and also i am not into expensive horses per say, i like a good rugged cob or gypsy cob, they dont tend to cost the earth like a registered and papered trakhener would for example, i think such breeds are stunning but i doubt i would ever own one, not me really

however i would love a quarter horse mare one day

that might cost a bit

 

[Oldred]

£5000 for also worst horse I've ever owned. £1200 for the best horse I ever owned!

 

[shadowboy]

£1000 i dont like spending on ready made horses! I like to shape them myself so they are generally a bit cheeper to buy. Bought shadow for 400 sold him for £4000 which was a good investment- but wish i'd never sold him!

 

[pepperandoran]

£4000 for my boy - worth every penny.

 

[Scribbles]

Current horse was £2000, although that was a good £500 more than he was worth as a horse - as a pet and friend he was definately worth it, never met a horse with a sweeter temperament.

It was a dodgy scruffy TB out a delaers field in gateshead, or a well bred Selle Francais in a private schooling yard for same price. I went for the TB