Child/Adult jumper price range

[foursocks]

I don’t know, though- I rode my old TB (who ended up doing eventing as his last career), like a WB and he loved it. My trainer at the time (he passed away a few years ago) had all of his horses, TBs or WBs or something else, trained that way.

Since I started training with eventers I’ve been taught how to use my seat as an aid because dressage requires it. My current trainer’s horse that I mention above needs and wants his rider to sit to the jumps, exactly the way my WBs do. He’s trained to it, and that is where she gets his balance correct. Her younger horse is a 1/2 and 1/2 WB x TB purpose bred event horse and is hot as heck, and she sits on him, too. UL XC courses are getting more and more technical, and horses that have adjustability trained into them on the flat and over fences are the ones that win.

[Rumorhasit93]

Everyone who wants the best of both worlds (TB cattiness and WB hardiness) can just buy a SF I’ve 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.

[BITSA]

@Mayhemrider369

What is the current price range for a competitive child/adult jumper. Specifically if its max is 1.15.

Anywhere from 75k plus unless you are willing to go younger or older or quirky, difficult

[Zanny]

We are also not able to afford the best TB’s 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.

[Farosh]

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 can’t do lol I keep trying to find something wrong with him but I really can’t. 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. I’ve had other TBs that jump that height well but they were still like 30-40k.

[findeight]

Sounds like you found a highly motivated seller who HAD to sell. Lucky you.

[Farosh]

Yes very lucky me. I’m not a religious person but he’s 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 can’t anymore. And her parents can’t/won’t buy her a horse. So it makes me super happy to see her go show and just be able to do her children’s jumpers and just focus on trying to be the class winner, like she should be doing. But yeah I didn’t have more money than that to spend at the time so we are both incredibly lucky.

But I don’t tell my other clients how much he cost because they would expect me to find that for them too and I really don’t think I could. It was just a lightning strikes situation.