Everyone who wants the best of both worlds (TB cattiness and WB hardiness) can just buy a SF Iāve had the absolute joy of owning one for the last 7 years (and for the rest of her life). She is a joy - fast, adjustable to the base, forgiving, really a TB in a barely WB body.
Anywhere from 75k plus unless you are willing to go younger or older or quirky, difficult
We are also not able to afford the best TBās or look through all of them. The stud fees and yearling auction prices are too costly in the USA. In GB/FR/IRE/GER they have offspring in jumping. They do not go through WB stallion testing and record keeping. Many of the top riders have different horses for specific types of courses too.
Yes TBs are great money savers, recently bought a tried and true 1.15m Tb for 15k 11 years old, super sound, not a lump or bump anywhere on the horse, and can pop the kid over a 1.35 jump in a gymnastic and save any bad distance and 9/10 times keep the rail up. Best purchase of my life possibly. I have yet to see anything the horse canāt do lol I keep trying to find something wrong with him but I really canāt. Just found him scrolling on FB during lunch time, made an offer at 4pm, bought him site unseen and he arrived 2 days later lol. Iāve had other TBs that jump that height well but they were still like 30-40k.
Sounds like you found a highly motivated seller who HAD to sell. Lucky you.
Yes very lucky me. Iām not a religious person but heās been a real blessing. I bought him to lease to my student, she works SUPER hard and helps me with everything and all my warmbloods and other horses that could do that stuff are leased already or are older and canāt anymore. And her parents canāt/wonāt buy her a horse. So it makes me super happy to see her go show and just be able to do her childrenās jumpers and just focus on trying to be the class winner, like she should be doing. But yeah I didnāt have more money than that to spend at the time so we are both incredibly lucky.
But I donāt tell my other clients how much he cost because they would expect me to find that for them too and I really donāt think I could. It was just a lightning strikes situation.