What do you do for fun?
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This guy here is my retirement. He is a two year reining prospect. He's the most expensive thing I own.
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Just be happy you dont have a wife who is addicted to Dressage. We have a Warm Blood Oldenburg/Hannovarian gelding. 17.2 hands. Big [use a better word] with hooves like dinner plates.
Premium at the International Sporthorse Registry w/ 8.5 score.
He gets new shoes every 6 weeks at $275.00 a pop. Can you imagine how many shoes you would own if you spent that kind of money on them?
Dressage is a disease, let me itemize a few paltry items for you all:
Saddle: $2,500 (two) plus repadding every year @ $200.00
Riding boots: $845.00- she has three pairs
Board: $375.00/month
Training: $525.00/month
Bridle: $500.00- $400.00/per. she has I dont know just how many, but alot
Dental: $275.00 every 6 months
Did I mention all the other junk like saddle blankets, blankets, sheets etc.
All in all the worth of a horse?
It's weight in meat and whatever else you can get for it.
IF it does'nt founder, get lame, colic or turn nasty on ya.
Need I go on?
Better get back to work, I just keep telling myself it is cheaper than kids and leave it at that.
frans
This guy here is my retirement. He is a two year reining prospect. He's the most expensive thing I own.
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Just be happy you dont have a wife who is addicted to Dressage. We have a Warm Blood Oldenburg/Hannovarian gelding. 17.2 hands. Big [use a better word] with hooves like dinner plates.
Premium at the International Sporthorse Registry w/ 8.5 score.
He gets new shoes every 6 weeks at $275.00 a pop. Can you imagine how many shoes you would own if you spent that kind of money on them?
Dressage is a disease, let me itemize a few paltry items for you all:
Saddle: $2,500 (two) plus repadding every year @ $200.00
Riding boots: $845.00- she has three pairs
Board: $375.00/month
Training: $525.00/month
Bridle: $500.00- $400.00/per. she has I dont know just how many, but alot
Dental: $275.00 every 6 months
Did I mention all the other junk like saddle blankets, blankets, sheets etc.
All in all the worth of a horse?
It's weight in meat and whatever else you can get for it.
IF it does'nt founder, get lame, colic or turn nasty on ya.
Need I go on?
Better get back to work, I just keep telling myself it is cheaper than kids and leave it at that.
frans
Frans, how would you rate the entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dressage ?
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- Avon, CT
Wife decided that Dressage wasn't costing enough, so she's now doing Eventing. Think Dressage + Show Jumping + Cross Country, each of which uses entirely different saddles and tack.
Frans also forgot to add the cost of the Truck and Horse trailer, show entry fees, gas/food/lodging while at the show. And if your spouse is taking lessons, you also get to split the trainers gas/food/lodging for the show with the other students.
Frans also forgot to add the cost of the Truck and Horse trailer, show entry fees, gas/food/lodging while at the show. And if your spouse is taking lessons, you also get to split the trainers gas/food/lodging for the show with the other students.
I hear what your saying. Some of those prices seem a bit high. We have a farm here to board our own horse and taking boarders in and do all our own training along with training outside horses so that cuts costs. Ebay is great place to buy really good name brand tack. I can get my dentist out for about $20 bucks but it helps to being friends with him and he likes to look at my girls big boobs its all good. The farrier is $125 every 5 weeks for shoes for just three of them.
Geldings and stallions alike get their sheaths cleaned. They get alot of dirt collected in there and it can get itchy and irretable makes them craky. It only gets done a few times a year around here. Once the stallion is breeding he will be cleaned more often.
I'm hoping to do well with the stud in the up coming shows when he is 3,4,5,6 and put him up for stud at around $1500 to start and as he starts getting some babies out there showing and winning it will go up. Hopefully breed about 50 mares or so a year. Breeding could go as high as 25,000 or 30,000 but average for a good stud in around $5000.
My fiance is responsible for all her own expenses when it comes to her horses and showing. Luckily she still goes to daddy for things like trucks and trailers. He enjoys watching and helping out. I dont offer much help with horses. I wont even break her filly. I've two of my own since she's asked for help with this one. You need to let them be independent.
Geldings and stallions alike get their sheaths cleaned. They get alot of dirt collected in there and it can get itchy and irretable makes them craky. It only gets done a few times a year around here. Once the stallion is breeding he will be cleaned more often.
I'm hoping to do well with the stud in the up coming shows when he is 3,4,5,6 and put him up for stud at around $1500 to start and as he starts getting some babies out there showing and winning it will go up. Hopefully breed about 50 mares or so a year. Breeding could go as high as 25,000 or 30,000 but average for a good stud in around $5000.
My fiance is responsible for all her own expenses when it comes to her horses and showing. Luckily she still goes to daddy for things like trucks and trailers. He enjoys watching and helping out. I dont offer much help with horses. I wont even break her filly. I've two of my own since she's asked for help with this one. You need to let them be independent.
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- healdsburg, CA
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Kids are cheaper then that Frans.
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Sure, if you dont send them to college and put them through the public school system, thus ensuring a lifetime of lower earnings and lower education...
Frans
Kids are cheaper then that Frans.
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Sure, if you dont send them to college and put them through the public school system, thus ensuring a lifetime of lower earnings and lower education...
Frans
- Location
- Retired in Minneapolis
It sound like horses are more expensive that sailboats.
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- Austin, TX
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Why would a horse's johnson need human intervention?
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These guys must keep thier ponies in stalls with wood shavings.
My folks have btween 10-15 horses depending on who is where and who gets sold. No human intervention needed.
Maybe it is a fetish? /forum/images/graemlins/aaa.gif
Why would a horse's johnson need human intervention?
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These guys must keep thier ponies in stalls with wood shavings.
My folks have btween 10-15 horses depending on who is where and who gets sold. No human intervention needed.
Maybe it is a fetish? /forum/images/graemlins/aaa.gif
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- healdsburg, CA
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- healdsburg, CA
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It sound like horses are more expensive that sailboats.
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sailboat?, what sailboat? I thought you were talking about that hole in the water over there that I was trying to fill with cash!
It sound like horses are more expensive that sailboats.
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sailboat?, what sailboat? I thought you were talking about that hole in the water over there that I was trying to fill with cash!
- Location
- turnersville nj
Thanks MB! No face. That one's done. The finish just dried. Maybe on a future carving like it i will.
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- Home of the New Jersey Devils
Nice John. So, when are you doing the full-sized bear eating a fish? /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Hey, good idea!
