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| you can not get a broke horse here for $5000 |
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| In Nevada..... A well bred prospect with a solid foundation. Not started on the barrels. Or 8-13 year olds running 3-4D times. |
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Location: Texas | for $5000 you can get some nice weanlings/yearlings. I'm not talking from stallions with $3000+ stud fees but you can find some nice prospects that are unbroke for that amount.
As far as riding horses, you can find a good riding prospect, especially like Schimkeranch said about getting ones OTT. I've gotten a Stoli, Rock Solid Jess, Shazoom, This Snow Is Royal, Okey Dokey Dale, daughters for way under $5000 that had already raced and didn't have the earnings they were hoping for. The Rock Solid Jess we got as a late 2 YO and she hadn't raced yet. She was kind of hairy at the sale and no one was looking apparently. Mind you, these were all track broke or green broke. So I got them cheap but had to put in the time to get a good handle on them, except the TSIR and the ODD- I sold them as broodmares. The ones I did end up riding were very easy to get going.
I think you can also find some really nice horses who are farther advanced in their training that may or may not have the big names first generation on their papers, but are already proving to have talent and trainability with a good handle for $5000 and under. |
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| have to say Im looking and I am not finding the 3D well patterned 8 to 13 year old for 5K.......i wish it were so :/ |
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Location: Kansas | Shoot....some of you have been very lucky then......when I had my grey mare up for sale, I couldn't even get $5,000 for her. She is finished 2D, will clock 1D locally, awesome rodeo mare, just will baulk and spin at the gate (just keep feet moving and she was fine), and she has fibrotic myopathy (sound as can be, vet said she was fine with no maintence).......Once I listed her had a bunch of people ask me about her, once I told about her FM they ran or offered me $1,500 for her.
I took her off the market after that LOL.
For $5,000 around here, I'd better be sitting on a extremely broke horse, doesn't have to be patterened, or a super nicely bred prospect |
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| y_do_i_do_this - 2014-01-17 3:09 PM
have to say Im looking and I am not finding the 3D well patterned 8 to 13 year old for 5K.......i wish it were so :/Â
I have found them but the sold real quick or were too far away from me. |
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Location: SoCal | y_do_i_do_this - 2014-01-17 1:09 PM
have to say Im looking and I am not finding the 3D well patterned 8 to 13 year old for 5K.......i wish it were so :/Â
We had almost no one call on our mare we sold, and that mare did flying lead changes, spins, big stop, and looked like a pleasure horse. You needed to be aggressive with her on barrels cause she was very gritty, turny and a full blown push style, but she would open up through the pattern too. Just kick to the barrel, drop to one rein and she'd peel the paint. I've never seen a horse take to barrels and like them like she did. No gate problems and wasn't an idiot. Her problem was she had a pleasure bred mom with no names, but her top was packed with cutting royalty. First person to come out and look at her bought her and took lessons for a week in order to learn how to ride her because she was so fine tuned. My best advice would be to wait and not get a horse you don't fully like with the price tag you need. Eventually the perfect horse will come along. |
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| For $5000 I got a dead broke, been there done that, cow bred, 9 year old team penning gelding. When I got him he had never seen the barrels but knew how to really sit and use his hind end, which I really like. He's now running and placing well everywhere. I think it all depends on where you are and what is available. I wasn't expecting him to be as nice of a barrel horse as he has turned out to be. I was just looking for a good riding horse to haul around and work cows. Now, I'm hauling and competing again! |
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | SG. - 2014-01-18 8:52 AM
Yes, in fact I do, but it never seems to happen! |
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 How freakish is that?
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Location: Oregon | Hey, againy got her horse for $800!! Off craigslist! (I LOVE THIS)
http://forums.barrelhorseworld.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=444016&start=1
Once in a while a frog gets kissed and lo and behold it's a freaking prince. |
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| rockinas - 2014-01-17 8:47 AM
You can buy a pretty nice young prospect for that.Â
A very well bred weanling or yearling for sure.Â
I've bought several OTT in the $2500-5000 range.Â
If you don't mind riding color breeds you can usually get some bargains on running bred Paints or Apps. Â
The winningest horse I've ever had was a solid App mare, that was a race winner and a grand daughter of Leaving Memories & Bugs Alive in 75. She won more than what I paid for her at the first futurity I ran her at.  
I love color and would love to have a nice color prospect for 2500-5k! Tell me where :-) |
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Location: Moved to Montana | Depends, you can get a nice horse to pack you around the barrels in the 4D probably, an older 2-3D hore that needs maintained, a jacked up 1D horse that you may or may not be able to ever fix. A prospect with nice lines but probably not out of proven performers or producers. It depends on what you want to do, I feel like if you hunt $5000 can get you something nice. And there are $500 horses that make winners but the odds are kind of long. |
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Mrs. Troy
Location: western Nebraska | How about a 10 year old gelding. Nice looking, bred nice and fun to ride. He was sold as a coming 6 year old with a very nice start on the barrels. The lady that bought him never did much with him-maybe a dozen jps. But he has been ranched on and calved on every spring. He is automatic pretty much on the barrels just needs to be hauled to see what he can do and he loves the barrels. Smooth and broke nice. Best part you can buy him for under 5k |
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Miss Not Exciting
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Location: Ft Worth TX | Geez I have some under well under 5k that are well broke with a handle heck ones finished that I cannot even get nibbles or ppl to come look... Eros me. |
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Cold hands and Warm Heart
Location: oklahoma | doglady - 2014-01-18 2:04 PM How about a 10 year old gelding. Nice looking, bred nice and fun to ride. He was sold as a coming 6 year old with a very nice start on the barrels. The lady that bought him never did much with him-maybe a dozen jps. But he has been ranched on and calved on every spring. He is automatic pretty much on the barrels just needs to be hauled to see what he can do and he loves the barrels. Smooth and broke nice. Best part you can buy him for under 5k
This horse would be my pick. |
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| A well bred, two-year-old with 30 days riding. |
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Location: Central Montana | Depends on what you are looking for.
I recently bought an 8 yr old gelding with 2yrs of reining training for under $3,000. I had him shipped in from another state. I actually found the (not very detailed) ad on Craigslist. He had been on track to go to the NRHA futurity but the trainer decided he wasn't going to make the cut. He mostly sat around from his 4 to his 7 yr old year with weekend rides off and on. Had some issues with his feet due to poor farrier work but my farrier thinks that he should be completely back to normal by summer.
I had my mare listed for quite a bit less than that a few months ago. She is 8 this year, well broke, has a reining foundation, and has been hauled to and competed in horse shows since she was 3. She hauls and stalls great, is not bothered by the noise and activity when going places. She's been around the barrels now and then but not consistently. I decided to keep her though.
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| GoinJettin - 2014-01-18 7:23 PM
Depends on what you are looking for.Â
I recently bought an 8 yr old gelding with 2yrs of reining training for under $3,000. I had him shipped in from another state. I actually found the (not very detailed) ad on Craigslist. He had been on track to go to the NRHA futurity but the trainer decided he wasn't going to make the cut. He mostly sat around from his 4 to his 7 yr old year with weekend rides off and on. Had some issues with his feet due to poor farrier work but my farrier thinks that he should be completely back to normal by summer.
I had my mare listed for quite a bit less than that a few months ago.  She is 8 this year, well broke, has a reining foundation, and has been hauled to and competed in horse shows since she was 3. She hauls and stalls great, is not bothered by the noise and activity when going places. She's been around the barrels now and then but not consistently. I decided to keep her though. Â
We have been looking at your add with the Mare for awhile now, just wish we were set up and ready for another one. |
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