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Besides Free, what is the least you ever paid for a horse?

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  • #21
    $200 for my first horse in the '80s. I paid more for her saddle than paid for her

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    • #22
      $275 in 2004 to a kill buyer at New Holland for Luna. Not tatooed, but we think she was a TB or TB/warmblood X.

      I had her for way too short a time. Unfortunately, she passed away two years ago from an aneurysm. RIP Luna. I miss you.

      http://s127.photobucket.com/albums/p...rrent=luna.jpg
      "Dogs give and give and give. Cats are the gift that keeps on grifting." –Bradley Trevor Greive

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      • #23
        Originally posted by fourmares View Post
        Someone paid ME $5K to take a mare! I think the least I've paid was $125.
        Someone paid me $1000 to give their guinea pig a home
        If wishes were horses then beggars would ride...
        DLA: Draft Lovers Anonymous
        Originally posted by talkofthetown
        As in, the majikal butterfly-fahting gypsy vanners.

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        • #24
          Back in 1987 we went to a reg. Quarter Horse (Troutman) auction. We came home with 3 horses: a colt for 110.00 a 6mon. old weanling filly for $95.00 and a 3 year old saddle broke mare for $800.oo. On the way home my boss at the time told me if I took care of the colt and trained him I could have him, at 18 when I proved I could afford him and could keep a roof over his head, she gave him to me. Turns out this was a whole planned thing and we actually went for my colt!

          That's how I got my first horse. I was 16 couldn't drive, but I had a horse. Nancy was a tough boss. I cleaned 15+ stalls everyday that were prone to flood. We wheeled those wheel barrels 150 feet from the 45 stall barn. Had no tractor, but she had two gullable horse crazy girls.

          RIP - Justa Vapor (Tober)
          RIP - Nancy
          The View from Here

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          • #25
            The lease amount I paid for a horse was $50.00
            I got her from the local livestock auction. She was a 12 y/o OTTB that had (minor) navicular. Turned out once I got her home and actually looked at her papers she had awesome bloodlines!
            Head em out, Move em up, RAWHIDE!!!

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            • #26
              $40 for a pony!

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              • #27
                $800.00 for an OTTB from some western people. Sold him a few years later for 10k Bought him back a year later for $4,500. and now he's retired with a lovely family.

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                • #28
                  negative $500.

                  I traded my horse for a weanling. My horse was more money, so we set up a payment plan. The buyer defaulted after making only one payment. According to the contract, if she defaulted, I got to keep the weanling, get my horse back and keep any money already paid.

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                  • #29
                    Tons of free ones. We got Frosty the Snowpony, now 40 years old in 1983 for $150. How much is that a year? $6? Great bargain there! She taught me everything I know. I paid $300 for my one superb broodmare, she is 3/4 percheron. I paid $450 for her sire, now a 13.0 hand gelding who is Perch/Welsh and the best lesson and jumper pony! My parents bought my now 23 year old paint gelding for me as a weanling for $250 back in 1986. I paid $300 for my dressage pony who is 14.2 and Paint/Morgan. I have gotten aLOT of good deals and they stay with me. I don't turn them over. But I also have a keen eye and good sense when picking animals.
                    Maria Hayes-Frosty Oak Stables
                    Home to All Eyez On Me, 1998 16.2 Cleveland Bay Sporthorse Stallion
                    & FrostyOak Hampton 2008 Pure Cleveland Bay Colt
                    www.frostyoaks.com

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                    • #30
                      Not a horse, but $200 for a mammoth donkey. What a cutie he was. Too bad he had issues with calves.

                      With horses, $500 for the best 25 year old standardbred I ever knew Of course, they told me she was 15 and really underweight and wormy when I bought her, but there was no way they could have known that she was a decade older too. If any of us had suspected that, I may not have been riding her in her 32nd year, and she really did enjoy those rides.

                      We also "bought" Be, my current thoroughbred, for a gallop bill. I guess that's around the $500 mark as well.

                      Everything else has either been given to me or I inherit after their racing careers. I get grief from the other half if I try to outright "buy" horses. To actually buy the standardbred, I had to sell a thoroughbred and use the profit from that to buy her and outfit her.

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                      • #31
                        [QUOTE=aspenlucas;3800824]I paid $300 for my one superb broodmare, she is 3/4 percheron. I paid $450 for her sire, now a 13.0 hand gelding who is Perch/Welsh and the best lesson and jumper pony! [QUOTE]

                        Totally OT but how did this broodmare come about?

                        13 hand stud. Full Perch mare. The mental images are priceless...
                        “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Peter Drucker

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                        • #32
                          $10 for a 3-month-old filly at an auction. Once she put on some weight and was wormed she was beautiful! Have no idea what happened to her dam, though. Never could find out

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                          • #33
                            Hay

                            $1.00
                            Sorry! But that barn smell is my aromatherapy!
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                            • #34
                              $500 in 1994 for a mare & foal; also included nice western saddle & bridle and sleigh/cart (had wheel attachments too) with harness; very sweet mare and filly from a man who was trying to get out of the horse scene

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                              • #35
                                $125 for my BLM mustang, Zephyr. I got her as a long yearling and she just turned 6 and is probably my best friend. She loves to jump so we've been showing in the hunters and jumpers the last 2 years, but we also do tons of trail riding. She looks adorable in the show ring with all the $$$$ horses towering over her (she's 14.2) and regularly beats the pants off them.
                                Yogurt - If you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera? Steven Colbert

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                                • #36
                                  [QUOTE=JohnDeere;3800887][QUOTE=aspenlucas;3800824]I paid $300 for my one superb broodmare, she is 3/4 percheron. I paid $450 for her sire, now a 13.0 hand gelding who is Perch/Welsh and the best lesson and jumper pony!

                                  Totally OT but how did this broodmare come about?

                                  13 hand stud. Full Perch mare. The mental images are priceless...
                                  They said they used a ditch! I bought the pony as a three year old gelding. He was out of a small welsh mare and by a percheron stallion. They then bred him to their full perch mare before gelding him. They said they put her in a ditch and he climbed aboard. The mare was only about 16.1 though. Those two are some of the best horses I've had. The pony is priceless! Worth his weight, literally, in gold!
                                  Maria Hayes-Frosty Oak Stables
                                  Home to All Eyez On Me, 1998 16.2 Cleveland Bay Sporthorse Stallion
                                  & FrostyOak Hampton 2008 Pure Cleveland Bay Colt
                                  www.frostyoaks.com

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                                  • #37
                                    $400 for my first mare who was worth her weight in gold, platinum, and every other precious metal out there. The other most amazing horse in my life was free. Proving you don't have to pay lots for a talented, well mannered, excellent horse!
                                    It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.

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                                    • #38
                                      $40 for a Hackney pony; $100 for an unreg. QH mare. Both at the feedlot auction.

                                      Loads of freebies though, including New Boy!
                                      "The standard you walk by is the standard you accept."--Lt. Gen. David Morrison, Austalian Army Chief

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                                      • #39
                                        $1200 last year for a blue papered TWH with two world champions in his lineage. He's a nutball, but he's turned into a great trail horse.
                                        If you cannot set a good example, at least serve as a terrible warning....

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                                        • #40
                                          $125 for my BLM Mustang.
                                          He is a great horse - took him Xcountry schooling this week end and he did super!
                                          "When life gives you scurvy, make lemonade."

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