Horse prices.... wow wheee: Re: A good all around horse

» pugsnapps - Re: A good all around horse

In response to message posted by whirlybird:

It is pretty much the same situation here in Georgia. The cost of everything in the horse industry has sky rocketed in the last 15 – 20 years. I have a friend that owns a breeding farm and can barely make ends meet selling weanlings & yearlings at $2000 - $10000. Not to mention her training & showing bill that she has to pay so that she can show that both her stallion and his off spring have the “winning get” that everyone is looking for. I put off actually owning a horse for years… just took lessons & rode friends horses. I finally forked over $5500 for one of my friends weanlings that I fell in love with. He is approaching his third year in life and I have already invested well over $10000 getting him to where he is now – hoping to have that all around horsthat'llll do a bit of everything. A lot of people who do have that “good all around registered horse” want to re-coop some of the money/time that they have invested to achieve that “good all around” status. The circle keeps going around & around --- and the prices keep going up & up.

-- posted by pugsnapps