10/11/2025
I get asked a lot these days about the price of horses, and whether I think it is going to stay up. My answer is always a hopeful; "Well, I sure hope so! It's about damned time."
The guys (and gals) out there making good horses need to be getting paid for their work. They need recognition in a form that pays the bills and puts food on the table.
Ya'll have heard the saying...
"Show me the money!"
That is where I am at now, at this stage of my career. I want...no, I demand...monetary recognition for my long days, first rides, wet saddle blankets, critters roped, gentle ground manners taught. I need fair compensation for farrier work, dental work, supplements, salt and minerals, deworming...staying up late and getting up early, all while putting the effort into developing the equine partner I dreamt about when I first spotted that young horse for sale as a weanling or yearling. I gave hard earned money to own him, I put real effort into developing him, now I deserve a pat on the back with a plump wallet.
We all do. Us honest horse traders.
There are more of us out there than you think, swimming in the pool among the parasites. It's just sometimes hard to tell the difference. Believe me when I say I get it. I buy horses too, not just sell, so I know all the ins and outs of this business. I've heard the bu****it.
This business attracts the underachievers, it always has, but now with the twenty thousand dollar price tags on decent horses being bandied about, these underachievers are truly rooting around in the bottom of the barrel. Something for nothing has always been their thing and will continue to be so.
It's tough to separate the wheat from the chaff, but if you are buying just keep your eyes open, pretty soon the work being put in will start doing the separating for you. I know for a fact that there are a lot of handy horsemen out there putting in solid days on future sale horses.
Have a good day folks. 😊
