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There are places where it doesn’t cost $250/month to feed are care for the mare. You think those folks in Ontario with 50 acres and 20 band mare herds are paying $250/month for each mare and vet fees of $500/mare? Look in places where costs are way way lower or where the scale makes things much cheaper. Those costs you mention would be the costs in my area… but who says you have to shop in that type of area? here’s an example…
An operation like that is not investing $10,000 into each and every mare before the foal hits the ground. And they have some excellent bloodlines. They are clearly taking advantage of economies of scale and inexpensive land/feed/vet costs where they’re located. And they’re TRYING to jumper/dressage type horses so a hunter type might be one they’d be more willing to quickly and painlessly sell. A place like that is a good place to look for a bargain.
They have unbroke horses starting under $10,000…
http://www.ewsz.com/EWSZ/prices.asp
OP didn’t say she had to have a 2/3 year old or backed.
Someone who has a few hobby mares/foals and is boarding them in an expensive area is the wrong place for the OP to look. Someone breeding to hot hot and expensive stallions is the wrong place to look. There are no shortage of nice young horses in her budget if she knows how to turn over stones.[/QUOTE]
Yes, like I said I am NOT looking for something broke, and at this point a weanling would be perfect. I gave those list of stallions as a reference to what I liked, but I also said I was open to ANY stallion, not just those. So if you think I should look at other babies I will, although, I have found a few babies by those stallions that have fitted by budget, just have not been in my area.
