Today:
Lunge line (pink): £10
Foo food: £30.20
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Isn’t that what you might eat*?
*Asking in an East End accent.
I’d just budget £100 a day for running costs as a minimum. Then add the extras.
You could have a nice Porsche for that kind of money. 
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The only porker I’m likely to be able to justify at this point is a fucking diesel Cayenne. A really, really cheap one, 20th hand. With a tow bar.
We pay £75 per month dog insurance, I hate to think how much it costs for a horse.
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£45pm for medical cover up to £5k per illness/injury and public liability upto £2m. They already have rider insurance @£3pm each.
Once they have all the kit, we’re only paying for the insurance, inoculations, farrier and maybe some odd bits of stuff. The girls are going to cover livery, food, and any other foo bits that they want.
It’ll work out pretty close to what we have already been paying out for them to loan.
That’s surprising, mind you I doubt £5K would go far with a horse.
I’m going to say anything much more than that and the Findus factory beckons. We’ll stick a few grand in an isa as a contingency for anything that the insurance won’t stretch to, but bearing in mind that a broken leg is pretty much a death sentence…
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It’d buy a rifle & a small amount of ammo
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To give an unusual positive comment on this - it must be lovely knowing that your girl’s will be getting so much fresh air and not glued to their screens for the time they are with the horse.
I also thought that, to my admittedly untrained eye, it looks a terrific horse.
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Justifying permanent costs by reference to trial costs is a pro move by the FoLs.
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3 points on your horse licence
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And for God’s sake DO NOT scrimp on a helmet. When Mrs M had her fall a few years ago it saved her big time. When I saw the helmet after I’m glad we didn’t go cheap
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They’ve both been riding since they were toddlers Dave, and we’ve always got them good lids and body armour, because they both like jumping and Lauren especially is a speed freak who likes cross country stuff.
@pbg Many years ago my best mate had a Simpson Bandit airbrushed up to look like The Predator, a bit like this:
Compared to my Troy Corser replica AGV the interior padding was, erm, rudimentary. But then they’re a drag car helmet really, it was pretty dodgy to wear them on a bike.
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they look good though
They absolutely do.
I would think Lynn spends £4K max a year, plus any small extras along the way. Biggest problem is being tied and finding someone to sort him if we want to go away.
Its the unexpected costs that quickly add up.