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Location: South Georgia | *almost there* - 2017-09-06 12:55 AM serious question, how do people get money to buy 10-15-80,000 dollar horses?
most barrel racers I know aren't rich.
Houses are not important to some, if you know what I mean. | |
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| horsegirl - 2017-09-06 1:46 PM
*almost there* - 2017-09-06 12:55 AM serious question, how do people get money to buy 10-15-80,000 dollar horses?
most barrel racers I know aren't rich.
Houses are not important to some, if you know what I mean.
I ask myself this every day....
or the $5,000 saddles.... I get 5k isn't a huge amount of money but those with the 5k saddles, 12 PHT blankets, wraps, etc. I just don't get it  | |
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| *almost there* - 2017-09-06 11:24 AM
classicpotatochip - 2017-09-06 6:59 AM
star1218 - 2017-09-06 8:49 AM
*almost there* - 2017-09-05 11:55 PM serious question, how do people get money to buy 10-15-80,000 dollar horses?
most barrel racers I know aren't rich.
I wonder this every day.
I get my money from my 80 hour week in the oilfield...you get what you put in, where you put it in at.
But I could say someone working your hours with your income it would make sense to buy finished winning product due to work hours
I bought one finished horse one time, we didn't click in the long run. BUT I have had the fun to purchase some very nice prospects!! | |
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Location: WI | stayceem - 2017-09-06 2:14 PM horsegirl - 2017-09-06 1:46 PM *almost there* - 2017-09-06 12:55 AM serious question, how do people get money to buy 10-15-80,000 dollar horses?
most barrel racers I know aren't rich. Houses are not important to some, if you know what I mean. I ask myself this every day.... or the $5,000 saddles.... I get 5k isn't a huge amount of money but those with the 5k saddles, 12 PHT blankets, wraps, etc. I just don't get it
I bought my house when the market was in the tank and now have some serious equity. I dream of selling that and buying something nice (new house and horse lol). Some people get nice bonuses from work. Tax returns. Where there is a will, there is a way!
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Location: California | rodeomom3 - 2017-09-06 10:15 AM
classicpotatochip - 2017-09-06 8:59 AM star1218 - 2017-09-06 8:49 AM *almost there* - 2017-09-05 11:55 PM serious question, how do people get money to buy 10-15-80,000 dollar horses?
most barrel racers I know aren't rich. I wonder this every day. I get my money from my 80 hour week in the oilfield...you get what you put in, where you put it in at.
What career field is he in ? (If you don't mine me behind so bold in asking) | |
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| and it isn't really my business how people afford what they do, I mostly wonder because I know what I make and what I go without / don't have to pay for (kids)
And I still wouldn't be comfortable spending what some do. So I wonder what I am doing wrong! LOL
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| Mighty Broke - 2017-09-06 7:09 AM
*almost there* - 2017-09-06 12:55 AM serious question, how do people get money to buy 10-15-80,000 dollar horses?
most barrel racers I know aren't rich.
DADDY may be though !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was dumb and took a loan from my bank.... twice... they aren't even barrel horses, they are roping horses lol! | |
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| *almost there* - 2017-09-06 4:47 PM rodeomom3 - 2017-09-06 10:15 AM classicpotatochip - 2017-09-06 8:59 AM star1218 - 2017-09-06 8:49 AM *almost there* - 2017-09-05 11:55 PM serious question, how do people get money to buy 10-15-80,000 dollar horses?
most barrel racers I know aren't rich. I wonder this every day. I get my money from my 80 hour week in the oilfield...you get what you put in, where you put it in at. What career field is he in ? (If you don't mine me behind so bold in asking )
He works for a multi family apartment builder. He runs the US and Mexico construction division. He started out as an on site project manager 30 years ago. | |
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Location: Dubach, LA | stayceem - 2017-09-06 2:14 PM
horsegirl - 2017-09-06 1:46 PM
*almost there* - 2017-09-06 12:55 AM serious question, how do people get money to buy 10-15-80,000 dollar horses?
most barrel racers I know aren't rich.
Houses are not important to some, if you know what I mean.
I ask myself this every day....
or the $5,000 saddles.... I get 5k isn't a huge amount of money but those with the 5k saddles, 12 PHT blankets, wraps, etc. I just don't get it
Most barrel racers I know are rich. Not me. | |
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Location: California | rodeomom3 - 2017-09-06 5:41 PM *almost there* - 2017-09-06 4:47 PM rodeomom3 - 2017-09-06 10:15 AM classicpotatochip - 2017-09-06 8:59 AM star1218 - 2017-09-06 8:49 AM *almost there* - 2017-09-05 11:55 PM serious question, how do people get money to buy 10-15-80,000 dollar horses?
most barrel racers I know aren't rich. I wonder this every day. I get my money from my 80 hour week in the oilfield...you get what you put in, where you put it in at. What career field is he in ? (If you don't mine me behind so bold in asking )
I appreciate you answering! That is wonderful he is able to provide so well for his family! | |
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Location: on the fine line between insanity and geniusness | This has been a shocking post to me. I didn't read the entire thing because the last page embarrassed me. WHO CARES where people get THEIR money to buy THEIR horses?! Some go to the bank and borrow it, some have wealthy parents, some have very good jobs, some (like me) buy cheap stuff and train them their self, heck some may sell drugs to pay for their habit... but at the end of the day- how is this YOUR business?!? THIS is the problem I have with a great number of barrel racers, not all, but a vast majority. So many people get caught up on what everyone else is doing. Worry about YOU and YOUR horse. Not anyone else. Who cares what they have, what works for them or how they got something. If you ride a $500 saddle and your horse is winning, does it really matter if the horse next to you is packing a $5000 saddle? NOOO. My point is, do you. Stay in your own lane. Figure out what works for you and do that and quit worrying so much about things that aren't your business to begin with. If people spent half as much time and energy worrying about their own dang lives as they did worrying about how someone else had something nicer than they did, maybe in that time they could have made their 3D horse a 2d horse!! Spend your energy on bettering yourself!! Don't spend it on other people! | |
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| Ashley Lynn - 2017-09-07 5:48 AM
This has been a shocking post to me. I didn't read the entire thing because the last page embarrassed me. WHO CARES where people get THEIR money to buy THEIR horses?! Some go to the bank and borrow it, some have wealthy parents, some have very good jobs, some (like me) buy cheap stuff and train them their self, heck some may sell drugs to pay for their habit... but at the end of the day- how is this YOUR business?!? THIS is the problem I have with a great number of barrel racers, not all, but a vast majority. So many people get caught up on what everyone else is doing. Worry about YOU and YOUR horse. Not anyone else. Who cares what they have, what works for them or how they got something. If you ride a $500 saddle and your horse is winning, does it really matter if the horse next to you is packing a $5000 saddle? NOOO. My point is, do you. Stay in your own lane. Figure out what works for you and do that and quit worrying so much about things that aren't your business to begin with. If people spent half as much time and energy worrying about their own dang lives as they did worrying about how someone else had something nicer than they did, maybe in that time they could have made their 3D horse a 2d horse!! Spend your energy on bettering yourself!! Don't spend it on other people!
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Ashley Lynn - 2017-09-07 5:48 AM This has been a shocking post to me. I didn't read the entire thing because the last page embarrassed me. WHO CARES where people get THEIR money to buy THEIR horses?! Some go to the bank and borrow it, some have wealthy parents, some have very good jobs, some (like me) buy cheap stuff and train them their self, heck some may sell drugs to pay for their habit... but at the end of the day- how is this YOUR business?!? THIS is the problem I have with a great number of barrel racers, not all, but a vast majority. So many people get caught up on what everyone else is doing. Worry about YOU and YOUR horse. Not anyone else. Who cares what they have, what works for them or how they got something. If you ride a $500 saddle and your horse is winning, does it really matter if the horse next to you is packing a $5000 saddle? NOOO. My point is, do you. Stay in your own lane. Figure out what works for you and do that and quit worrying so much about things that aren't your business to begin with. If people spent half as much time and energy worrying about their own dang lives as they did worrying about how someone else had something nicer than they did, maybe in that time they could have made their 3D horse a 2d horse!! Spend your energy on bettering yourself!! Don't spend it on other people!
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| For me I would say say a $10,000 horse would need to be young rideable age, completely sound mind and body and broke broke broke. Not necessarily trained in anything specific but solidly broke. And be a horse anyone could ride and enjoy being around. But this is all a matter of opinion. Some people will buy $10,000 in potential. Not me. Way too many variables.
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Location: Missouri | Most I ever spent was 6,500.00 on a 15yr old 1D locally. I put him on my credit card. Both my daughters had great success on him and he was retired at 24yrs old. His last trip to youth world was at 24. Personally I'd be scared to death to spend over 10K because what if they dropped dead, lol.
The last "finished" horse I bought I paid 3,500.00 and he was 16yrs old, 2D/3D locally and was an App to boot. He did well for me and was passed on to my step son and later my daughter.
I'm now running a 300.00 horse and a 400.00 horse. One is 2D/3D and the other has just been entered for the first time this summer and he's 4D, placed 2nd in the 3D once. One will never be 1D and the colt, well, if I can become a 1D rider, he's gonna be right there.
I'm currently wishing I could afford a used double J flex tree saddle, but I'm putting the money in the colt and myself right now. I'm just going to have to learn to keep my butt in the circle Y saddle. | |
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Location: California | Ashley Lynn - 2017-09-07 3:48 AM This has been a shocking post to me. I didn't read the entire thing because the last page embarrassed me. WHO CARES where people get THEIR money to buy THEIR horses?! Some go to the bank and borrow it, some have wealthy parents, some have very good jobs, some (like me) buy cheap stuff and train them their self, heck some may sell drugs to pay for their habit... but at the end of the day- how is this YOUR business?!? THIS is the problem I have with a great number of barrel racers, not all, but a vast majority. So many people get caught up on what everyone else is doing. Worry about YOU and YOUR horse. Not anyone else. Who cares what they have, what works for them or how they got something. If you ride a $500 saddle and your horse is winning, does it really matter if the horse next to you is packing a $5000 saddle? NOOO. My point is, do you. Stay in your own lane. Figure out what works for you and do that and quit worrying so much about things that aren't your business to begin with. If people spent half as much time and energy worrying about their own dang lives as they did worrying about how someone else had something nicer than they did, maybe in that time they could have made their 3D horse a 2d horse!! Spend your energy on bettering yourself!! Don't spend it on other people!
It wasn't asked person specific with anyone in mind - it was a very general statement. Be embarrassed all you want, I feel absolutely no shame for it. It was a broad statement, said to a group of people that all "know" each other. Not sure why asking is so offensive. And I do mind my own business, but this however is a DISCUSSION board, where well, things get discussed.
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| Ashley Lynn - 2017-09-07 5:48 AM This has been a shocking post to me. I didn't read the entire thing because the last page embarrassed me. WHO CARES where people get THEIR money to buy THEIR horses?! Some go to the bank and borrow it, some have wealthy parents, some have very good jobs, some (like me) buy cheap stuff and train them their self, heck some may sell drugs to pay for their habit... but at the end of the day- how is this YOUR business?!? THIS is the problem I have with a great number of barrel racers, not all, but a vast majority. So many people get caught up on what everyone else is doing. Worry about YOU and YOUR horse. Not anyone else. Who cares what they have, what works for them or how they got something. If you ride a $500 saddle and your horse is winning, does it really matter if the horse next to you is packing a $5000 saddle? NOOO. My point is, do you. Stay in your own lane. Figure out what works for you and do that and quit worrying so much about things that aren't your business to begin with. If people spent half as much time and energy worrying about their own dang lives as they did worrying about how someone else had something nicer than they did, maybe in that time they could have made their 3D horse a 2d horse!! Spend your energy on bettering yourself!! Don't spend it on other people!
While I understand what you're saying, I can still wonder. BUT... Since it's nobody's business, that's probably why most of us DON'T KNOW how they pay for stuff! LOL
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| I rodeoed with some of those rich girls that didn't have to win to keep going. You know what? I would never had traded places with those couple girls. Their families didn't care about how they did or where they went. They just didn't want to have to deal with these girls. They bought them off. Their friends' families took them in. Some of them didn't even go home for the holidays. Why? There parents went skiing or overseas for a vacation and left them at home. Not all of the rich girls have families like that, but when I saw that as a teenager, I never cared to know who could afford what. It seemed like a bad trade off to me. | |
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Not Afraid to Work
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| Ashley Lynn - 2017-09-07 5:48 AM
This has been a shocking post to me. I didn't read the entire thing because the last page embarrassed me. WHO CARES where people get THEIR money to buy THEIR horses?! Some go to the bank and borrow it, some have wealthy parents, some have very good jobs, some (like me) buy cheap stuff and train them their self, heck some may sell drugs to pay for their habit... but at the end of the day- how is this YOUR business?!? THIS is the problem I have with a great number of barrel racers, not all, but a vast majority. So many people get caught up on what everyone else is doing. Worry about YOU and YOUR horse. Not anyone else. Who cares what they have, what works for them or how they got something. If you ride a $500 saddle and your horse is winning, does it really matter if the horse next to you is packing a $5000 saddle? NOOO. My point is, do you. Stay in your own lane. Figure out what works for you and do that and quit worrying so much about things that aren't your business to begin with. If people spent half as much time and energy worrying about their own dang lives as they did worrying about how someone else had something nicer than they did, maybe in that time they could have made their 3D horse a 2d horse!! Spend your energy on bettering yourself!! Don't spend it on other people!
jeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzz.... relax. I found the question made in a joking fashion. I don't care how people buy horses. Believe me, heard all the rumors and frankly I don't really care. Its more of a general question because I never have 50k just chillin in my bank account LOL.
Nothing about those posts seemed to be negative. People have great horses and some made them, some bought them. I don't care, I love my herd.
I just seriously ponder where my budgeting skills lack LOL | |
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Location: Arkansas | Ashley Lynn - 2017-09-07 5:48 AM
This has been a shocking post to me. I didn't read the entire thing because the last page embarrassed me. WHO CARES where people get THEIR money to buy THEIR horses?! Some go to the bank and borrow it, some have wealthy parents, some have very good jobs, some (like me) buy cheap stuff and train them their self, heck some may sell drugs to pay for their habit... but at the end of the day- how is this YOUR business?!? THIS is the problem I have with a great number of barrel racers, not all, but a vast majority. So many people get caught up on what everyone else is doing. Worry about YOU and YOUR horse. Not anyone else. Who cares what they have, what works for them or how they got something. If you ride a $500 saddle and your horse is winning, does it really matter if the horse next to you is packing a $5000 saddle? NOOO. My point is, do you. Stay in your own lane. Figure out what works for you and do that and quit worrying so much about things that aren't your business to begin with. If people spent half as much time and energy worrying about their own dang lives as they did worrying about how someone else had something nicer than they did, maybe in that time they could have made their 3D horse a 2d horse!! Spend your energy on bettering yourself!! Don't spend it on other people!
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