Yet another ‘crazy prices ’ thread!

[Ample Prosecco]

But this really did make me choke on my cornflakes:

7 yo unbacked, barely handled TB

Have a guess.

 

[ImmyS]

£6000?

 

[Ample Prosecco]

Close! What would you actually pay?

No breeding listed in ad so I assume nothing special there either.

 

[splashgirl45]

£8000 as a guess...... what i would pay......nearer to £800

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

People are just bloody greedy I think £7,500

 

[Widgeon]

If it had good conformation, really nice feet, a phenomenal temperament, and plausible evidence for why it wasn't broken at seven, maybe £1K tops?

 

[1523679]

I’d guess the seller is asking £5k+

Based on the info given, you’d have to pay me to take it away

 

[DabDab]

Market value is probably about £3k. A cheeky seller might put it up for £5k.

I would pay £800 ish

 

[Ample Prosecco]

Arghh I’ve gone back to double check but can’t find the ad now. But I think they wanted £7000. Which is - erm - ambitious!
There were 2 that made me think you couldn’t give that horse to me, and the other was 5k.

 

[Shantara]

Yikes! I got Serenity for £600. She was 10yrs old at the time, bombproof and impeccable on the ground (and she's still perfect <3)

 

[Ample Prosecco]

I sold Toby for less than 5!! But he’s in a fab forever home so I’m happy.

 

[Flyermc]

Maybe they put an extra '0' in the price in error???

bonkers asking price

 

[I'm Dun]

Yikes! I got Serenity for £600. She was 10yrs old at the time, bombproof and impeccable on the ground (and she's still perfect <3)

The market has changed dramatically in the last year. Mine cost 3.5k and is green with 2 flat sarcoids. He was cheap compared to some I saw. A couple of years ago hed have been a grand give or take.

 

[Sossigpoker]

It's about time horses cost enough money to make people think if they really can afford to keep one. There are way too many people here (as in where i live , not on this forum) who only ask for advice on Facebook because a vet costs money and don't even start on suggesting getting a professional trainer involved.
I'm sick of these posts and people - so perhaps a rise in prices will price these people out of the market?

 

[Ample Prosecco]

There’s a sensible readjustment of the market so a sound, well educated horse costs enough to make it worthwhile breeding/producing and selling sound, well educated horses. I’m all for horses costing more in general. But an unhandled, and therefore uneducated 7 yo TB with totally unknown potential to do any kind of a job, or even to stay sound, is worth very little in any sane market.

 

[Winters100]

Where I am a horse like that would be about 500 euro.

 

[splashgirl45]

. if i could afford another i would be looking for 15h ish, lightweight cob type, about 14 years old, who is happy to hack alone and is not crazy in company, is sound, good in traffic, and to shoe,clip etc, good ground manners , and a nice person. i window shop quite a bit and i would need at least £7000 . so for something younger and able to compete it is likely to be over £10,000....i dont envy someone trying to buy at the moment....

 

[tristar]

i would pay decent money for a mature, not knxckered, nicely put together, good moving tb, with a few good horses in the back breeding, if, it was genuine, i really value a horse started late, and some NH TB horses have been started quite late.

 

[tristar]

Where I am a horse like that would be about 500 euro.

but it could be a good horse, ? or a bike, we don`t know enough about it really

 

[Goldenstar]

Depends on its back story how it’s been managed , it’s conformation, it’s feet ,how it moves what size it is ,it’s temperament .

I have had people say to my face that I paid an extortionate amount of money for Blue (6.5) it not look very extortionate now .
Some people can’t recognise a nice horse presented badly in Blues case far to fat and seriously out of condition .
In this case we have not even seen an ad .
People can ask what ever they choose no one has to view the market will always find a level .

 

[ownedbyaconnie]

I’m happy to pay more money for well produced, well bred etc. I asked a connemara stud what their just broken 4 year olds go for and they said £6k. I think that’s completely fair after the cost of putting the mare through foal, keeping the foal for 4 years and then backing.

The issue is the broken, badly bred, badly produced horses on the market for silly money!

I mean if they get £7k for the horse OP mentions then fair play to them ?

 

[LegOn]

i would pay decent money for a mature, not knxckered, nicely put together, good moving tb, with a few good horses in the back breeding, if, it was genuine, i really value a horse started late, and some NH TB horses have been started quite late.

But one persons decent money is £3K & anothers is £12K!

 

[vanrim]

I can never understand why people expect to pay far less than the cost of breeding plus the cost of keeping the horse each year of its life plus cost of backing plus cost of training. Why don’t they all just breed their own and see how cheap it really is. Grrrrrrr.

 

[Flicker]

It’s the unbacked, unhandled at 7 that would put me off, for any money. At that age, trying to start and bring on would be extremely challenging and you have no idea what you’ll get at the end of it. If it was a nice sort and 3 or 4 I’d be happy to stump up a good amount of cash. But not 7.