Cheap Horses for Sale

Those looking for cheap horses for sale in today’s market have a veritable smorgasbord of choices, but should beware of buying from a trainer, even though some do have fairly amenable animals to offer the average buyer.  They are often just too good at being able to hide some incredibly sever faults in the equines they have for sale.

 I always recommend going straight to a breeder in your chosen breed, and as a therapeutic Farrier with many years experience in western Washington in extreme lameness, folks tend to listen to my opinion on a new horse.  This way, by buying a young horse with few or no problems, you have many options that you don’t have in a trainer’s stables.  Some foals are kept only to be inadequate to breed as they mature, or the filly was kept to breed to a said stallion only to have said stallion sold, and now she serves no function in the program through no fault of her own.  Many are foals who had a rough start in life.  After the breeder has worked incredibly hard to get them going well, they may be more interested in getting a chosen favorite a good home.  Breeders also want a better product for their buyer; trainers want your future business, so in the end it is the breeder who has your best interests in mind.  Many breeding facilities (such as mine) offer a guarantee on their animals, insuring their replacement should some awful genetic disease should befall your horse, or even simply you two don’t get along. 

In my program, I breed high quality palomino and buckskin Arabians, and because I never breed color to color, we end up with a 50% non colored product, foals we sell for significantly less than their colored counterparts do, and many are multiple champions themselves.  They are phenomenal animals that perform to every stature their siblings do.  I really don’t see too many people succeed with many “free” horses.  Many are free for reasons other than the ones listed in the newspaper, and a good portion of my $500.00 shoeings come from well meaning people who got in trouble just trying to do a good deed and adopting a mustang from the Bureau of Land Management, or from a local rescue.  I work with many rescues, and they are not always extremely intelligent about which horses have a working future and which one’s don’t.  Some are so broken they will never heal, and some have been driven to violence by similarly violent humans, so buyers beware. 

Remember that it costs just as much to feed a good horse as a poor quality one, and significantly less to shoe a quality animal than a terribly built one.