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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | okhorselover - 2016-05-30 5:36 PM Three 4 Luck - 2016-05-30 5:04 PM okhorselover - 2016-05-30 4:38 PM turn3turnsok - 2016-05-30 9:00 AM I agree with almost everyone and I'll add
if someone else sells a horse I bred & raised for $1,000s more I definitely did something RIGHT  in my breeding... Not if you sold to a horse trader. Big difference in them & reputable barrel horse people. Question is, is the horse's you sold doing anything ?, like winning ? I am so gratefull for the wonderful professional people who buy horses from me. They are out there doing something. Horse trader horse's usually have issues & are down the road. LOL I'm not surprised you said what you did. I pm'd you. Have a great evening.
You on a roll, woman. Why am I not surprised you got your panties in a wad over a simple question for clarification? Dayum. |
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| Three 4 Luck - 2016-05-30 6:48 PM
okhorselover - 2016-05-30 5:36 PM Three 4 Luck - 2016-05-30 5:04 PM okhorselover - 2016-05-30 4:38 PM turn3turnsok - 2016-05-30 9:00 AM I agree with almost everyone and I'll add
if someone else sells a horse I bred & raised for $1,000s more I definitely did something RIGHT in my breeding... Not if you sold to a horse trader. Big difference in them & reputable barrel horse people. Question is, is the horse's you sold doing anything ?, like winning ? I am so gratefull for the wonderful professional people who buy horses from me. They are out there doing something. Horse trader horse's usually have issues & are down the road. LOL I'm not surprised you said what you did. I pm'd you. Have a great evening.
Hey, You have a great evening to :) You are to funny LOL |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Yes. Yes, I am.  |
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Location: East Texas | Why is this such a touchy subject? |
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Location: TEXAS | Three 4 Luck - 2016-05-30 5:04 PM okhorselover - 2016-05-30 4:38 PM turn3turnsok - 2016-05-30 9:00 AM I agree with almost everyone and I'll add
if someone else sells a horse I bred & raised for $1,000s more I definitely did something RIGHT in my breeding... Not if you sold to a horse trader. Big difference in them & reputable barrel horse people. Question is, is the horse's you sold doing anything ?, like winning ? I am so gratefull for the wonderful professional people who buy horses from me. They are out there doing something. Horse trader horse's usually have issues & are down the road.
Actually they are all doing very well Thank You
The term "Trader" doesn't really apply for $20,000+ horses... |
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Duct Tape Bikini Girl
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| Selling anything has one simple rule to me. I ask what it is worth to ME. If someone wants to pay me MY price, I'll sell. If not, I won't. What really makes a buyer angry is if I simply refuse to sell a horse to THEM because I know it's not a good match. It's real simple. If you feel a horse is over priced, don't call. |
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Location: Arkansas | I don't barrel race, so this may not be worth much in this thread----but I thank God for my plain ole trail horses!!!!!! I have one that was around the 4000 mark when I bought him, and I had more than one barrel racer try to buy him. He's older now, but he was one of the first horses I got on after my wreck (he was 5 at the time) and he took care of me every time. To me that was priceless. . . |
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| Chandler's Mom - 2016-05-31 12:47 AM I don't barrel race, so this may not be worth much in this thread----but I thank God for my plain ole trail horses!!!!!! I have one that was around the 4000 mark when I bought him, and I had more than one barrel racer try to buy him. He's older now, but he was one of the first horses I got on after my wreck (he was 5 at the time) and he took care of me every time. To me that was priceless. . .
I put a great value on a horse that I can swing my leg over and know he is not going to be stupid. Which is why I paid what I did for my most recent purchase even knowing I would have to put a little more money in him sending him to the trainer. |
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Location: Where I am happiest | We take our mare in this afternoon to check to see if she is bred. We already have $5,000 in this prospective foal and it was a classic uncomplicated breeding and only shipping once. $4,000 stud fee, $300 shipping, 3 trips to the vet with her new foal in tow to ultrasound and then inseminate. So if we are bred, how much do you think we have invested just by the time we have a weanling? And you want to buy this weanling for under $5,000?? Then you want to buy the same colt as a 3 or 4 year old with a year of training for $5,000 and complain about how over priced horses are? GOOD LUCK!! |
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Location: Oakdale, CA | ThreeCorners - 2016-05-31 6:15 AM We take our mare in this afternoon to check to see if she is bred. We already have $5,000 in this prospective foal and it was a classic uncomplicated breeding and only shipping once. $4,000 stud fee, $300 shipping, 3 trips to the vet with her new foal in tow to ultrasound and then inseminate. So if we are bred, how much do you think we have invested just by the time we have a weanling? And you want to buy this weanling for under $5,000?? Then you want to buy the same colt as a 3 or 4 year old with a year of training for $5,000 and complain about how over priced horses are? GOOD LUCK!!
I so agree with this! When I hear people want a cheap prospect I do cringe alittle..................Its expensive to raise horses especially nice horses and all the risk the breeders go through............ |
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Location: Washington | Horse are worth what someone is willing to pay. I had my now daughter's horse up for sale a few years back. Had a big price tag on him, he was kid friendly and would win a race. Actually had a lot of interest but no bites, so slowly lowered his price and got LESS interest!
We currently have a horse for sale. He a special case since has does have an old injury that he comes up sore on if used too hard repetitively. Listed him on some local FB pages. BIG mistake! lol People need to read ads! If this one gal had she would have seen he was for Private Treaty not free and saved herself a lot of huff. She was NOT an ideal home so my husband priced him high, luxury of PT. Well she comes back and starts a rant on my sale post, so when I and a couple people correct her, she then accuses me of watching my horse suffer in pain and agony since I said in the ad I seen how he got hurt but not that he was seen by a vet. He's 16 and we've owned him for 8 years, I was not going to take the time to write his life story, that can be shared with serious inquires. |
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Who Wants to Trade?
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| Note: never talk about horses being over priced at the tail end of breeding season.
In all honesty though, it costs me the same amount in feed, vet work, and care to get a $30k horse here as it does a $3k horse. I typically only have race yearlings so I know those are different. That said, I do breed crossover foals and even some straight barrel babies. My mares are all very well bred race mares who are proven producers and/or proven performers. They all have very strong female families with earnings and blacktype behind them. I breed for what I like and I like fast. My goal with every Nick is to be perfectly happy if I were to keep the foal for myself. So far I haven't kept any (even the one I tried to keep I sold this year LOL).
Are my yearlings priced too high? Since I haven't gotten to keep one yet I'm guessing not. I sell private and in sales so I try to stay pretty aware of the market. |
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