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Location: Pa | Just curious, has anyone ever bought a cheap horse without fancy bloodlines turn into a great barrel horse? I bought an unregistered 10year old hardly broke mutt horse who is now placing in rodeos. I spent $400 on this horse and I love her like crazy and she's just amazing. I wouldn't sell her for a million dollars. Anyone have a similar experience ? (: |
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Location: Kansas | http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2011-08-17-eighty-do... |
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| Wasn't mine, but i rode with a friend to pick up a horse. He gave $375 for it. A pretty common looking paint horse BTW. I thought he over paid. He bought it for his daughter. It ended up 20.??? second pole horse, and was just about as good on barrels. |
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| Friends of mine, lost their daughter's horse and they were looking for something kid gentle that sort of knew the pattern. Another friend told me about a kid horse that a trader bought in a sale that was supposed to be 15 but mouthed at 20ish. He looked like he fit the little girl well so they bought him for about $1500. Turned out that bad boy was 1D anywhere you wanted to run him. That little girl was a flea on that horse because he was about 16 hands. Her parents would walk him down the alley and head him in the right direction bam he was through and walked back to her parents. When she got a new horse that one was passed down to her little sister.
The paint in my avatar was $700 and he is 2013 APHA Res. World Champion in Poles. He doesn't have anything fancy on his papers. Some good solid using horses and some speed but nothing really noteworthy. |
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Location: Pa | It always surprises me how some great horses end up with people who don't even know what they have standing out in their pasture .. |
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| I had an ex bareback bronc given to me...I turned him into a winning 19 second pole horse in a few years (I mean, he was a BUCKING horse. Took a little while to get that out of him, and he would still buck sometimes when he was excited. I learned to live with it). Only could race him for two competitive seasons before he blew up and started flipping over, but he was a nice boy, and would've stayed there if I'd have done more slow work with him (he hated slow work, very edgy naturally and it got to the point I only got on him to run). He was also 16ish when I got him....so he was about 20 when he blew up, not a spring chicken by any means.
So yes, you don't have to spend 40k to get a winning horse. ^^ that gelding never took a lame step in his life. Never needed injections, no fancy supplements, he got a handful of oats and a 4 acre pasture and that kept him fed and fat. He was and still is very quirky and hard to get along with, but once I stayed out of his way, we worked great. haha He's now retired in my pasture at 26 years young, where he is gonna live until he dies. He's started looking rougher these past couple of months, with his eyesight going and his back getting really swayed (he was always a decent horse conformation wise). So this winter will probably be a turning point for him. I've had him for 10ish years now, and, as his 10th owner, he doesn't need to have an 11th one. |
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| I know of a NBHA 1D world champion that was bought for $1000. |
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| I know of a horse bought for $1000 and was tried by a pro last week for 125k. |
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| Yes! Bought a grade gelding 2 year old for 600 turned him into a 1D local horse and 2D super show horse . |
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| I won a world championship in pole bending on a horse I paid $1000 for. Purchased horse at 4 years of age, and she is now coming 18. Has clubby front feet, and a nothing special set of papers, BUT she has a huge heart and loves barrels and poles. Must say she is a paranoid schizophrenic nut though! |
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Location: NC |
Growing up my mom took lessons from Deleyer and she said everyone got to ride Snowman when they first came to the farm. :-) |
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Location: Central Texas | Paid 500.00 for my guy as a rescue basically. He only runs 3D sometimes 2D but he is consistant and pulls me some checks alot so he's a winner to me. |
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Location: Alabama | i have 2 free horses, 1 QH 1 app mare. they were given to me cause they were "crazy"
i wount argue that my app may have some screws loose, but my QH is the best horse ive ever ridden....
the app has won 20+ buckles & 4 saddles.... my QH was 3 when i got him so i broke him and trained him, hes one of my favorite horses to run, won a reserve in the sate running poles & top 10 in the barrels.... ran in the 2D recently at a super show & has run 1D & rodeos |
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| I paid $400 for my gelding, isnt bred anything fantastic. Actually bred for hunt seat and western pleasure (he was a 3 day evening reject). He is a 2d/3d barrel horse, competitive in the other fun events. My nieces can ride him and I can run him. I wouldnt sell him for a million dollars and I have had a lot of offers. |
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Location: On a paint horse... | We bought a gelding at the sale barn for next to nothing and my daughter won the AQHYA World Show barrels on him, was reserve on him another year, ran 19 second poles, took her to the HS rodeo Nationals, and the list goes on. Nothing more rewarding!!  |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Oldest story that I know about. Seabiscuit! |
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| komet. - 2015-09-24 11:49 AM
Oldest story that I know about. Seabiscuit!
yeah
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Location: Canada | I bought a decent PMU mare for $300 dollars, we found out later she was pasture exposed to a stud and was pregnant. Anyways long story short, that little colt of hers is now doing extremely well in the barrel pen and can then go and win in the pleasure ring as well. I LOVE him!
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Location: Canada | I bought a decent PMU mare for $300 dollars, we found out later she was pasture exposed to a stud and was pregnant. Anyways long story short, that little colt of hers is now doing extremely well in the barrel pen and can then go and win in the pleasure ring as well. I LOVE him!
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Location: Canada | I bought a decent PMU mare for $300 dollars, we found out later she was pasture exposed to a stud and was pregnant. Anyways long story short, that little colt of hers is now doing extremely well in the barrel pen and can then go and win in the pleasure ring as well. I LOVE him!
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