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| I know several people who buy pricey horses and do well, they have big incomes and are hard workers if I was able I would spend it. I buy according to what I can afford to lose at the time I've spent $1000. Up to $25000. I've bought $800. Saddles up to $4000. I'm very focused I have no other hobbies no vacations wear my clothes until they are thread bare I have a decent job $30.00 an hour I started out with nothing and I still pull my 1999 four star trailer ride outside all winter that's how I do it. |
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Location: California | tin can - 2017-09-08 3:20 AM I know several people who buy pricey horses and do well, they have big incomes and are hard workers if I was able I would spend it. I buy according to what I can afford to lose at the time I've spent $1000. Up to $25000. I've bought $800. Saddles up to $4000. I'm very focused I have no other hobbies no vacations wear my clothes until they are thread bare I have a decent job $30.00 an hour I started out with nothing and I still pull my 1999 four star trailer ride outside all winter that's how I do it.
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Location: OH | *almost there* - 2017-09-08 8:53 AM tin can - 2017-09-08 3:20 AM I know several people who buy pricey horses and do well, they have big incomes and are hard workers if I was able I would spend it. I buy according to what I can afford to lose at the time I've spent $1000. Up to $25000. I've bought $800. Saddles up to $4000. I'm very focused I have no other hobbies no vacations wear my clothes until they are thread bare I have a decent job $30.00 an hour I started out with nothing and I still pull my 1999 four star trailer ride outside all winter that's how I do it. Love this, good for you
KEEP the 99 4 Star----it is better than most new ones on the market. LOL |
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Location: Oklahoma | 1DSoon - 2017-09-05 7:41 PM They bought Scamper for $38 and an Asado Taco
to be fair, the taco came with nopales but it was still a taco
Ah yes, but Scamper had never seen a barrel then. He was being ridden by a feed lot cowboy and I believe was pretty much an outlaw then. |
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| Guess this really doesn't apply to me since the most I've paid for a prospect is $8000, but I have money to race because I did my research, bought the truck I needed from the get go back in 2003, and have taken care of it. Rather than fall for all the pretty new toys, I have kept my rig that is paid for. Not having a truck or trailer payment puts a lot of cash in your pocket.  |
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Location: 'Hawk Country | You really need to consider how much it takes/costs to get a horse winning in the 1D. It costs a lot to build one. Gas and entry fees add up quickly. Do you want to spend your money $150 at a time ($100 for fuel/ $50 entry fee) and work your way up in the divisions, or run in the 1D from the beginning?
I know there are those horses out there that run in the 1D from the start, but to get them consistent and focused on their job, they need to be hauled and entered.
I have an 8 yo mare, bred out the rear, sound and built right. She is running bottom 1D, top 2D behind my gelding I won and placed at pro rodeos on this summer. Ran her at a rodeo and the lights and crowd didn't faze her. She will be easy to season. She is just being seasoned, by no means topped out. I won't take less than $25,000 for her. I know people who think she is over priced.
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Location: TEXAS | This thread really struck a nerve with me...lost a friend over it. I have an 8 yr old bully bullion bred gelding that spent a month with lindsey mcleod running solid 2d with her at the time, has ran less than .5 off some super nice horses, won me top 3d money at a big race right after I got him and still learning to ride him. He also runs poles. I will take $10,000 for him but a friend wanted him for his jr high daughter and wanted me to take $5,000 for him  We've had our words a parted ways!!! |
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| slacy09 - 2017-09-12 3:05 PM
This thread really struck a nerve with me...lost a friend over it. I have an 8 yr old bully bullion bred gelding that spent a month with lindsey mcleod running solid 2d with her at the time, has ran less than .5 off some super nice horses, won me top 3d money at a big race right after I got him and still learning to ride him. He also runs poles. I will take $10,000 for him but a friend wanted him for his jr high daughter and wanted me to take $5,000 for him We've had our words a parted ways!!!
Wow, that is crazy! And also why I don't buy horses from friends. I would never ask a friend to sell me their horse for less than what they have priced them at. I don't even haggle with my friends. If I am not willing to pay the price they want, I don't buy. I don't want to hurt their feelings because I am a cheapo. That is MY problem, lol. |
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| slacy09 - 2017-09-12 3:05 PM This thread really struck a nerve with me...lost a friend over it. I have an 8 yr old bully bullion bred gelding that spent a month with lindsey mcleod running solid 2d with her at the time, has ran less than .5 off some super nice horses, won me top 3d money at a big race right after I got him and still learning to ride him. He also runs poles. I will take $10,000 for him but a friend wanted him for his jr high daughter and wanted me to take $5,000 for him We've had our words a parted ways!!!
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | slacy09 - 2017-09-12 3:05 PM This thread really struck a nerve with me...lost a friend over it. I have an 8 yr old bully bullion bred gelding that spent a month with lindsey mcleod running solid 2d with her at the time, has ran less than .5 off some super nice horses, won me top 3d money at a big race right after I got him and still learning to ride him. He also runs poles. I will take $10,000 for him but a friend wanted him for his jr high daughter and wanted me to take $5,000 for him We've had our words a parted ways!!!
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| I had a friend who sold there horse for eighty..... when she figured what she paid for it at a sale,trainer,entry's to futuritys, shoes, vet, she had seventy five in it. It's an expensive game these days. I miss when you could buy a twenty five hundred dollar two year old train it show it and make a little money. |
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| By the time you pay a stud fee, vet bills, feed for 5 years until old enough to compete, get them broke, spend your time or pay a trainer, you have at least $10,000. Easily. If you have a top 1D horse that is easy enough for a kid to ride and gentle, you can pretty well name your price. |
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Location: North MS | In Mississippi- a local 1D horse. 2D/3D at big shows. A true 1D Big Show horse $40-80K.
Now I've got one of the most solid 4D mares ever. Literally everytime I ran her she would get a check. If I asked $5000 for her people would probably laugh. The market is horrible here. |
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Location: Michigan | tin can - 2017-09-12 5:57 PM
I miss when you could buy a twenty five hundred dollar two year old train it show it and make a little money.
They are still out there I think too many just get hung up on a number, if it costs more it must be better.
My daughters main horse has been a solid 2D horse for several years and also runs low 21 second pole times. Paid less than 2K as a 6 year old.
New mare we got a couple years ago is running middle of 1D but still needs a bit of seasoning to become more consistant and fine tune a couple things. Paid 2500 as a 6 year old.
Good horses can certainly be found for under 10k.
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Location: TEXAS | rcoe - 2017-09-13 10:19 AM tin can - 2017-09-12 5:57 PM I miss when you could buy a twenty five hundred dollar two year old train it show it and make a little money. They are still out there I think too many just get hung up on a number, if it costs more it must be better. My daughters main horse has been a solid 2D horse for several years and also runs low 21 second pole times. Paid less than 2K as a 6 year old. New mare we got a couple years ago is running middle of 1D but still needs a bit of seasoning to become more consistant and fine tune a couple things. Paid 2500 as a 6 year old. Good horses can certainly be found for under 10k.
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| slacy09 - 2017-09-13 12:25 PM
rcoe - 2017-09-13 10:19 AM tin can - 2017-09-12 5:57 PM I miss when you could buy a twenty five hundred dollar two year old train it show it and make a little money. They are still out there I think too many just get hung up on a number, if it costs more it must be better. My daughters main horse has been a solid 2D horse for several years and also runs low 21 second pole times. Paid less than 2K as a 6 year old. New mare we got a couple years ago is running middle of 1D but still needs a bit of seasoning to become more consistant and fine tune a couple things. Paid 2500 as a 6 year old. Good horses can certainly be found for under 10k.
Oh jeez ... not that comment again 
I do agree that they are out there. I hit the goldmine through a connection with nicely bred, super correct 2-4 year olds. Not much advertising and very reasonably priced. |
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Location: TEXAS | stayceem - 2017-09-13 12:32 PM slacy09 - 2017-09-13 12:25 PM rcoe - 2017-09-13 10:19 AM tin can - 2017-09-12 5:57 PM I miss when you could buy a twenty five hundred dollar two year old train it show it and make a little money. They are still out there I think too many just get hung up on a number, if it costs more it must be better. My daughters main horse has been a solid 2D horse for several years and also runs low 21 second pole times. Paid less than 2K as a 6 year old. New mare we got a couple years ago is running middle of 1D but still needs a bit of seasoning to become more consistant and fine tune a couple things. Paid 2500 as a 6 year old. Good horses can certainly be found for under 10k. Oh jeez ... not that comment again I do agree that they are out there. I hit the goldmine through a connection with nicely bred, super correct 2-4 year olds. Not much advertising and very reasonably priced.
Oh geez...maybe OP hadn't thought about that. She needs to look at it from all angles! |
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Location: Michigan | slacy09 - 2017-09-13 12:25 PM
Location is a big factor, 1D is different in different states
I do not travel out of state much but a few of the top horses in the state do and I see how they run at some of the bigger shows. They are still at or near the top.
The biggest difference I see as here there might only be 10-15 horses in the 1D, but in other states there will be many more. |
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Location: East Texas | You can get a jam up older horse for that or a good younger one that needs to be seasoned |
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| *almost there* - 2017-09-07 1:33 PM 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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