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

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  • #61
    $750 For My one and Only Zook . 2 1/2 year old Mustang Cross. Super intelligent and sweet. Love of my life. And I have gotten double digit thousand offers for him. Nope, never leaving me. http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...enFarms033.jpg
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    $500 for my little Overo filly APHA registered with a BIG name on her papers. Beautiful little mover, and the best of all the disciplines. And so gentle and willing. She is in her halter training. She will be 6 months on the 26th.

    http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...y/DSC00031.jpg
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    $150 for a Ten Year old Mare AQHA wonderful mare, tons of sweet personality. Bloodlines that I have personally been around and worked with. I know people who bred her, and ridden with them for years. And actually knew her, when she was younger. She is still green.... but so willing and the pictures don't do her justice. With her bloodlines alone I should be taken in for Felony theft. !
    http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...CH/stretch.jpg

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    Finally $60 for my Skinny Vinny. My TB Man who really had lived up to his name. Registered and the straight grandson of the famed Alydar.
    He is a 16.1 chestnut boy, with the sweetest face alive, and the will to live.
    He came to me at a skinny deathly 925lbs.

    These pictures are first day, one week later, and two months later.
    And still he is gaining.
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    One week Later
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    http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...H/CIMG0388.jpg
    http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...H/CIMG0389.jpg

    And two months Later.
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    http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...s/DSC00121.jpg

    And a Miniature I got just for boarding two other ones for a few days.

    I lucked out.. I know. No matter what others think. I love my misfits.
    Zook Suit Riot- Mustang/Paint Gelding
    Proud member of the KELTON'S Crew
    CousinVinsky-Skinny Vinny JockeyClub/Alydar Grandson.Gelding Chestnut.
    CUnex2zdai- 2008 Buttermilk Buckskin Colt -ABHA/IBHA

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    • #62
      6 ben franklins for a skinny, ugly, unpapered, kidbroke chesnut gelding. "for the kids". Hahaha.

      He gained weight and lost ugliness. Best teacher and friend and investment. Hes now packing beginner adult butts around the indoor several times a week!
      Last edited by JohnDeere; Jan. 14, 2009, 07:15 PM.
      “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Peter Drucker

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      • #63
        Originally posted by Watermark Farm View Post
        I paid $1 for a draft cross yearling eight years ago.

        Three months later, I paid $1,000 for castration and resulting infection.
        Six months after that, I paid $7,000 for colic surgery and vet care.
        Two years after that, I paid $3,000 for training because he kept bolting when I led him.
        Two years after that, I paid $3,000 for a handful of lameness evaluations and xrays at a lameness clinic four hours away because he was horribly lame.
        And then I paid for a lot of corrective shoeing.
        And then I paid $1600 for a double neurectomy.
        And now I pay to keep a 7-year-old pasture ornament happy at home.

        My husband calls this my "$15,000 free horse." Ha ha ha!
        It could have been worse! You could have paid 10k for him and then he would be a $25k pasture ornament! And if that isn't enough to cheer you up...

        Think of The Green Monkey! The most ever paid at a public TB auction at 16 Million and he is being retired to stud with a total lifetime earnings of around 10K.

        I'll take a cheap horse any day!
        No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. ~Winston Churchill

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        • #64
          Awesome thread!

          I bought my first horse 20 years ago for $800....he was a 15.2 buckskin QH--grandson of Two Eyed Jack, and very green--had 30 days on him and THAT'S IT. Not a good match for a green rider, but he did teach me all about spooking, so there was that particular benefit.....I wanted a horse so badly I just kinda overlooked suitability. I think I did almost everything wrong with that horse....
          Fast forward to April 2006, when we bought the fabulous Crabbet-bred Arabian mare Jodilee for a mere $1200, tack, equipment, tack trunk, et al included. She is 13.3, a beautiful bright bay, 2 socks and a star 14 year old, and the pride and joy of my 13 year old daughter's life. They are 4-H partners, and are truly becoming a team, took their first "first" last season....aiming for open shows this year as well, but my daughter's dream is to show Jodi in Arab shows one day. Maybe this year?? Does whatever you ask of her, can put ANYONE on her, sound, sane and wise, calm and steady (most of the time, lol-she's had a moment or two, like they all do). She is the "little" horse at the 4-H shows here in QH/Paint land, and everyone loves her. She is a GREAT walking representative for Arabian horse ownership. HUS, EQ, saddleseat, tried western last year, as well as dressage (and will continue that)--and my daughter wants to try jumping now. LOL! Worth every cent of 1200, now worth millions, and will always be a member of our family. When my daughter outgrows her (and she will--she is already 5'4", not to mention ability-wise), I won't, thankfully.....I am all of 5'2". Plus, my ability is probably going to stay about the same. LOL!

          We will not mention here what I paid for MY Arabian mare.....also worth every cent--MY pride and joy, my dream come true....
          My lovely girls:
          Cloud Chaser H (Europia x Silver Lining EA, by Fame VF) and
          BW Jodilee (DBM Silladdinn x Hana of Nizzor, by Lewisfield Nizzor)

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