tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post9146236831768122816..comments2024-01-06T02:00:05.220-07:00Comments on SprinklerBandits: So Much More Than MoneySprinklerBandithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02948487857418394022noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-48029421917914556842014-06-27T10:19:07.300-06:002014-06-27T10:19:07.300-06:00Horse name: Jasper
Age when acquired: 6
Experience...Horse name: Jasper<br />Age when acquired: 6<br />Experience/Training at time: Wild Mustang. Could halter him if you approaced very carefully.<br />Purchase price: $0<br />Price if I were to ever sell him: $1 billion dollars .. muuuhahaha!TerriDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15584897489413472275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-55761958422066727022014-06-26T23:31:26.362-06:002014-06-26T23:31:26.362-06:00Horse name: Venus Dancer (Beauty)
Age When Acquire...Horse name: Venus Dancer (Beauty)<br />Age When Acquired: 5<br />Experience/Training at the Time: I believe by the time I bought her, I'd put 6 months of very slow training into her, and she could confidently walk under saddle. When I met her, she barely knew how to be led. <br />Purchase Price: $1500 (overpriced for a green, barely started, unregistered Morgan, but I would have paid anything for this horse!)Katie and Beautyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03097694584597935582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-45114454995013477482014-06-26T14:07:52.920-06:002014-06-26T14:07:52.920-06:00Horse Name: Wilbur
Age When Acquired: 5
Experience...Horse Name: Wilbur<br />Age When Acquired: 5<br />Experience/Training at the Time: 90 days H/J training- had been chilling in a field because he was too slow for the owners to use as a barrel racer<br />Purchase Price: $10,000 (admittedly overpaid- but it was true love)<br /><br />Horse Name: Ellie<br />Age When Acquired: 7<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Endurance riding- she had quite the 2013 record)- 90 days H/J training (sound familiar?)<br />Purchase Price: $12,000 (I stole her)Wilbur, Ellie, and Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08620148609694352994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-21364991723510717162014-06-26T12:55:02.977-06:002014-06-26T12:55:02.977-06:00Horse Name: Hadassah
Age When Acquired: hmm, 0?
...Horse Name: Hadassah<br />Age When Acquired: hmm, 0? <br />Experience/Training at the Time: Experience limited to successfully exiting her dam's uterus and nursing within the hour. She had a lot going for her though: her sire was out of Fagers Star out of Dr. Fager (Horse of the Year, Champion Handicap Horse, Champion Turf Horse, and Champion Sprinter). Her dam was out of Moon Deck, out of Top Moon. <br />Purchase Price: $550 breeding fee. SarahWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16182449850066338574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-81890027215036898822014-06-26T08:08:34.462-06:002014-06-26T08:08:34.462-06:00Horse name:Steady Smiler
Age when acquired: 10
Exp...Horse name:Steady Smiler<br />Age when acquired: 10<br />Experience/training at the time: kick ass race horse. 75 starts $322,000 winnings. No training outside if that. Purchased him 2 months from his last race.<br />Purchase price: $800Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13472219069662152722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-32070968191385904272014-06-25T21:29:10.748-06:002014-06-25T21:29:10.748-06:00Horse Name: Sam (Samoa Star)
Age When Acquired: 13...Horse Name: Sam (Samoa Star)<br />Age When Acquired: 13<br />Experience/Training at the Time: years of dressage, XC owned by a trainer, 2 years hunters with AA plus child (lease) w/ pro rides.<br />Purchase Price: $9,0002LeftSockshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11414707358481052987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-9590743857762274622014-06-25T20:18:11.497-06:002014-06-25T20:18:11.497-06:00Horse name: Fawkes (Admiral Dumyat)
Age when acqui...Horse name: Fawkes (Admiral Dumyat)<br />Age when acquired: 7, but almost 8<br />Experience/Training: retired racehorse living the sweet life in a field<br />Purchase Price: $800 donation to a TB rescue (how awesome was his owner?).....and $1800 cross country shipping!MostlyHarmlesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11865756625483953737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-67512831802425638642014-06-25T17:48:00.593-06:002014-06-25T17:48:00.593-06:00This is fascinating!
Horse Name: Walker
Age When ...This is fascinating!<br /><br />Horse Name: Walker<br />Age When Acquired: 6 years<br />Experience/Training at the Time: professional trained Western Pleasure, had been showed/trained a little in Trail, Hunt Seat, and also did Halter/Showmanship<br />Purchase Price: $4500 (which may have included shipping from the other side of the continent...I actually honest to god can't remember)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07374719817318352794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-86768546068781069692014-06-25T16:23:15.563-06:002014-06-25T16:23:15.563-06:00Beefheart
4
Racing training only
We traded the ow...Beefheart <br />4<br />Racing training only<br />We traded the owners' training bill for him.<br /><br />Winndelynn<br />Bred her<br />My fiancé owned the mare and I had a free breeding to the stallion for training him.<br /><br />Windtalker<br />6 ( but I had ridden him from the fall of his three year old year until the spring of his five year old year).<br />1st level dressage<br />Private treaty (it's a long story)<br /><br />Essentially, they were all cheap. I think I love them even more because of that.Jodihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16560432669562291616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-91467709163300371492014-06-25T13:42:44.111-06:002014-06-25T13:42:44.111-06:00Horse Name: Miss Tea
Age When Acquired: 6 months
...Horse Name: Miss Tea<br /> Age When Acquired: 6 months<br /> Experience/Training at the Time: None<br /> Purchase Price: $300<br /><br />Now 8 years old and has been my great teacher in horses and life!<br /><br />Horse Name: Shiraz<br /> Age When Acquired: 6 months<br /> Experience/Training at the Time: none<br /> Purchase Price: $300<br /><br />Now 1 years old and loving watching her grow! She has "butterfly feet" and prances like a queen dressage diva already!LandofWOZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11518323270325094244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-42296565792444665112014-06-25T13:24:12.608-06:002014-06-25T13:24:12.608-06:00Horse Name: Parker
Age When Acquired: 4
Experience...Horse Name: Parker<br />Age When Acquired: 4<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Track broke/raced<br />Purchase Price: Free<br /><br />Horse Name: Penny<br />Age When Acquired: 7<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Training Level Eventing<br />Purchase Price: $1200<br /><br />Horse Name: William<br />Age When Acquired: 3 1/2<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Backed unsuccesfully<br />Purchase Price: Free<br /><br />Boss Mare Eventinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08039910692009593158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-80439364505803052842014-06-25T13:09:17.688-06:002014-06-25T13:09:17.688-06:00Horse Name: Armani
Age When Acquired: 3
Experience...Horse Name: Armani<br />Age When Acquired: 3<br />Experience/Training at the Time: 2 momths under saddle, minimal groundwork<br />Purchase Price: $9,500 and a bargain at that ;)<br /><br />Ruckusbutt Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-11632589530388422072014-06-25T13:02:12.345-06:002014-06-25T13:02:12.345-06:00Horse hoarder right here...
Horse Name: Independe...Horse hoarder right here... <br />Horse Name: Independent George<br />Age When Acquired: 9<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Fancy schmancy, stakes winning racehorse, with more exciting life experiences than I'll ever have. He was then retired and put to pasture for a year before he came to live with me.<br />Purchase Price: Free<br /><br />Horse Name: Duke <br />Age When Acquired: 13 (hubby had him for 5 years before I met him, but Duke was 13 when we started dating)<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Trail horse with plenty of wet saddle blankets in his past.<br />Purchase Price: Free to me (hubby paid $850)<br /><br />Horse Name: Pistol<br />Age When Acquired: 18<br />Experience/Training at the Time: He was an impulse buy sold to us as a super broke trail horse. Turns out he had major emotional baggage to work through...fun times. <br />Purchase Price: $575<br /><br />Horse Name: Nugget (but is pending a name change)<br />Age When Acquired: 13<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Extensively trail ridden, had been in parades, worked cattle, worked at a kids camp, showed, been there done that.<br />Purchase Price: $1500<br /><br />Pony Name: Princess Rainbow Sparkles<br />Age When Acquired: 18<br />Experience/Training at the Time: grand kids pony<br />Purchase Price: FreeK.K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10360917262733032331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-77106371563176715332014-06-25T10:51:44.950-06:002014-06-25T10:51:44.950-06:00I have had several horses over the years and I'...I have had several horses over the years and I'm currently down to 3 so I will limit it to them.<br /><br />Horse Name: Lightly Frosted<br />Age When Acquired: Weanling/Yearling<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Not a damn thing. Green as grass and wilder than a March hare, but at the same time he was timid, shy and scared to death. Total hairball including mats and clumps. He has certainly grown up over the years and is my driving pony. He's stellar at it, though we still have our days...<br />Purchase Price: $400 <br /><br /><br />Horse Name: Mad About Me - aka Mommy Mare<br />Age When Acquired: 5 y/o<br />Experience/Training at the Time: OTTB with a year off due to knee injury. Recently brought her back under saddle and OMFG! She is so FUN to ride!<br />Purchase Price: $250, sight unseen, only 3 days before she went to the KB auction. Best horse purchase ever. <br /><br />Horse Name: Patience aka Aruba<br />Age When Acquired: 10y/o<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Broodmare who had been to a 3 day clinic as a 3y/o and first time under saddle was doing w/t/c<br />Purchase Price: Free<br /><br />Cut-N-Jumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10355349642284506192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-90326156181324237012014-06-25T10:25:35.540-06:002014-06-25T10:25:35.540-06:00Horse Name: Mightybobbymagee
Age When Acquired: 5,...Horse Name: Mightybobbymagee<br />Age When Acquired: 5, though I've pretty much "had" him since birth<br />Experience/Training at the Time: A year of racing, a year of let down that involved some hacking by a not-so-great rider, but mostly sitting around being lame. Literally unsound. I make good life choices.<br />Purchase Price: $600Carlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17308477892024999793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-24541157888613526922014-06-25T09:41:29.128-06:002014-06-25T09:41:29.128-06:00Horse Name: Wiz
Age When Acquired: 3 (3 months awa...Horse Name: Wiz<br />Age When Acquired: 3 (3 months away from being 4)<br />Experience/Training at the Time: I had been a working student and had taught him how to lunge and sat on him once or twice before sticking him out in a field for a year before I brought him home.<br />Purchase Price: $0.00Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08134312425893247056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-70622589485310244862014-06-25T08:52:12.252-06:002014-06-25T08:52:12.252-06:00Horse Name: Dakota
Age When Acquired: 6 months
Ex...Horse Name: Dakota <br />Age When Acquired: 6 months<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Halter broke<br />Purchase Price: $600<br /><br />Horse Name: Echo<br />Age When Acquired: 4<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Think she had gone through yearling training at a TB farm, but she was a pasture ornament since. <br />Purchase Price: $0Allison Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02942809380963457857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-56942318303393021402014-06-25T06:42:15.792-06:002014-06-25T06:42:15.792-06:00Horse Name: Lyssatra (Kika)
Age When Acquired: 2 &...Horse Name: Lyssatra (Kika)<br />Age When Acquired: 2 & 11months (technically 3)<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Didn't know how to be lead<br />Purchase Price: €3,300 from breeder including delivery<br /><br />Horse Name: Tantassig Nancy (Nancy)<br />Age When Acquired: 3<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Trained under saddle with some hacking experience & some arena work.<br />Purchase Price: €2,000 from breeder (my aunt)Aoifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06324156483692821044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-26047839884303438062014-06-25T01:02:17.256-06:002014-06-25T01:02:17.256-06:00This would come up when I own my two most expensiv...This would come up when I own my two most expensive horses!<br />Horse Name:Butch<br />Age When Acquired:12<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Fullwire hunter, SJ to 1.25m with a pro, wouldn't jump 90cm with old owner but he and I get on ok.<br />Purchase Price: NZ$7000 plus my boss forgave some of his training costs.<br /><br />Horse Name:Kate<br />Age When Acquired:10<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Full wire hunter, SJ 1.30m <br />Purchase Price: $9000 <br />Beckzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09114970876099684280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-5649924623067933172014-06-24T22:37:29.659-06:002014-06-24T22:37:29.659-06:00Horse Name: Koda (was called Shocker... sigh)
Age ...Horse Name: Koda (was called Shocker... sigh)<br />Age when Acquired: 7<br />Experience/Training at the Time: pleasure/recreational riding horse, wtc and some lateral work, not started over poles or fences. Being used as an advanced beginner lesson horse<br />Purchase Price: $2,000.00 <br />*Canadian price!*NSRiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07014811431121904525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-51172523974845539252014-06-24T21:31:09.744-06:002014-06-24T21:31:09.744-06:00Horse Name: Lady
Age When Acquired: 9
Experience...Horse Name: Lady<br />Age When Acquired: 9<br />Experience/Training at the Time: She was a thoroughly western trained horse with more than a few years of barrels/poles and endurance competitions behind her. And one foal. :)<br />Purchase Price: 500 even <br /><br />Kathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09663927549661433575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-85009000653119178212014-06-24T20:34:19.567-06:002014-06-24T20:34:19.567-06:00Ooh, fun.
Horse Name: Misty (shown as Mistaken) p...Ooh, fun.<br /><br />Horse Name: Misty (shown as Mistaken) previously known as Sissy and registered as Henny Penny<br />Age When Acquired: 6<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Ranch horse broke<br />Purchase Price: $2500<br /><br />Horse Name: Gold Jet Away (Jetta)<br />Age When Acquired: 2<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Halter broke only<br />Purchase Price: $750TBAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06791705770758173580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-16587235600393292322014-06-24T20:15:38.297-06:002014-06-24T20:15:38.297-06:00Horse Name: Prince of Thieves
Age When Acquired: ...Horse Name: Prince of Thieves<br />Age When Acquired: 16<br />Experience/Training: Supposedly at one point did A/O jumpers, no clue what he did before that. Was doing pony club and winning every 3'0"-3"3" jumper class around (I had NO clue of any of this when I bought him, haha).<br />Purchase Price: $4000 (included some tack)Jessicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09066327510880156537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-19003613597284452802014-06-24T16:56:13.054-06:002014-06-24T16:56:13.054-06:00Horse Name: Reveille
Age When Acquired: 2
Experi...Horse Name: Reveille<br />Age When Acquired: 2<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Halter broke, kind of saddle broke<br />Purchase Price: $900<br /><br />Horse Name: Apollo's Double<br />Age When Acquired: 8<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Race training, jumped around Novice once, dressage training, general retraining by redheadlins<br />Purchase Price: $3500 Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12717721719853988310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647406862592675556.post-75168043129362682782014-06-24T16:39:50.892-06:002014-06-24T16:39:50.892-06:00This is fun!! Great idea!
Horse Name: Chrome (b...This is fun!! Great idea!<br /><br />Horse Name: Chrome (breeder named him after a country song)<br />Age When Acquired: 5 months<br />Experience/Training at the Time: Halter/lead broke (but would barge into you so we had to work on whoa), picked up feet perfectly, could stand tied and could be touched all over. Didn't like fly spray, but would stand for it. Was a tad bit hard to catch and didn't know how to lower his head or back up really. Had never had a bath. Coming home with me was his first time ever on a trailer and he walked on with no hesitation. Oh and he was perfect for vaccines and deworming.<br />Purchase Price: $1200Achieve1dreamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15401246064499148344noreply@blogger.com