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Location: Somewhere around here | Would you rather buy a yearling with pretty good bloodlines but no do anything with it for a few years or would you rather buy a 5-8 year old QH with ok bloodlines and that's broke but never seen the pattern. I feel like for the most part the pricing will be around the same (at least in my location) but I don't know with what option I should go with. |
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Location: Kansas | broke horse |
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 Don't Wanna Make This Awkward
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Location: Texas | I think this a personal decisions. Do you have something already running the pattern and rideable. If I did not, I would choose the 5-8 yo, If I did the yearling, but it would have to be bloodines I really like. |
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  Queen Boobie 2
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| Yearling. My reasoning is, I know more of the history and have a greater impact on how they are brought up. |
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Expert
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Location: Somewhere around here | Maybe I should've made this a poll instead haha. I do have a rideable horse right now on the pattern, running 3D times but I do not know if he has it to be a 1D/2D jackpots horse or rodeo horse. I figure if I buy a yearling with good barrel racing bloodlines it MIGHT raise my chances on rodeoing on them well later on in the future. I say MIGHT because I know that so many wrong/bad things could happen before we even get to working on barrels. It's a lot of time and investment on a yearling and I'm just cautious of things going south. |
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| Yearling |
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 Good Grief!
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | YEARLING.......
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Elite Veteran
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| I'd say yearling, since you have a horse already going. There's quite a lot you can do with a yearling as far as ground work and manners, hauling them to races to see the sites, ponying, etc. to make the time go by faster until they're mature enough to start under saddle. |
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Undercover Amish Mafia Member
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Location: Kansas | well since you already have a horse running, then I would just go with the yearling |
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The Advice Guru
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| Depends on conformation, stride, gender, and pedigree all combined.
If the yearling has a short stride, even if he/she is bred well, I would pass.
I would also factor in the cost of training the yearling. |
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Location: Texas | I personally LOVE training young ones. I think I get more frustrated with trying to untie knots that somebody else put there (in already trained horses). I can't afford to buy the kind of broke horse that makes me happy, but I have lots of time, so I prefer to train them myself. (I do have someone else break them, but I do the rest) it really depends on what makes you get out of bed in the morning. For me, it's a yearling. It might be an 8 yr. old for you. |
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 Playing the Waiting Game
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| I'm impatient and would go with the older horse.. |
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Location: Central Montana | Broke horse.......I work full plus and don't have the time it takes to dedicate to young ones anymore. The last couple I've had were sent out to trainers.........in the end buying one ready to go would have been a better decision $$ wise. |
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | I for the first time purchased a well broke, calm, solid horse with no training holes....it is absolutely WONDERFUL. So I'd be inclined to say the broke one...but on the same token I personally would like to learn about getting a young'un started so I'd consider a yearling just for the experience. |
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 Love Me Some Robert Redford
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Location: WV | Depends on what you want. If you already have one going you could go young and go that route. You could buy the older one and be get it going sooner. |
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Elite Veteran
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| Yearling. IF you have ability/resources to get him started right. |
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