jheis:

Buy yourself a wooden boat instead - it's cheaper in the long run.... James 

The "money hole in the water" theory!! At least boats don't have to have their sails trimmed every six weeks

Anarchist:

  I have 5 of them.

We're not talking about 5 HP chainsaws....

Another 6 weeks it will be Thorobred Heaven here in Saratoga Springs when the Flat track begins racing ..... Home of the Travers Stakes !!!!

 My brother and sister-in law have about 55 of them on their property several they own and several are boarders. Every day they get up about 8 out on the farm by 9 to feed Hay and grain to all 55. A few of them have to have special grain and a few of them have medicine they have to be given. They finish first feeding around 11:00 My Sister-in law then has to exercise the horses that are hers and not being used for riding lesons followed by said lessons. After that they will grab a quick supper and then head back out to feed for the evening finishing around 9:00. Then if there is time they work on the house work. Start all over again the next morning. I was there about 2 months ago and my Brother in law had to shoot one of them because it had gotten really sick and the vet had done everything for it and there was just no saving it. Then he had the fun of disposing of said horse. Let me tell you it costs more to get rid of a dead one than buying a live one. So MAKE SURE YOU WANT HORSES before you get into it. It's not something you play with, they are expensive and hard work and if you like them worth every bit of commitment. But you will discover muscles you didn't know existed because they will start to hurt like hell from all the work you have to put into it. Then there is the joy of throwing bales of hay. I volunteered for this one spring day last year and I had never worked like that before. It was satisfying in it's own right, but extremely tiring. So once again MAKE SURE YOU WANT THEM. If that all sounds like your life dream then go for it. 

It will help if you learn a lot of "horse songs" to sing along while you work through the day.

JJK

BigDaddy just said about everything I could have said but probably better.  Make sure you look into it before youjump in it is alot of responsability and work to have them and take care of them the way they should be taken care of.  yet you can have some land and throw some horses on it but that is not taking care of them.  There are Vet bills feed and hay which all of these are going up in price just like everything else.  We were paying $3.00 a bale for hay 5 years ago and now it is $7.50, we go thru about 200 bales a year for two horses.  you need a Trailer if your going to take them riding off of your property.

We just lost one of our horses and the vet bill trying to save him would almost buy a set of Palladiums.  Caroline had him for 14 years and he was her baby, so you can imagine what we have been thru in the past couple of weeks.

Please if you get some just make sure its what the whole family wants to do.  If all the work gets put on one peson and the rest of the family doesn't help out it will not be any fun.

Steve