I would completely dispute the price of £16,000.00 for a coloured cob. These horses, considered by some (unfairly I may add)to be the mongrels of the equine world, can be picked up anywhere for £50.00 to £500.00. You would expect to pay £16,000.00 for a talented showjumper, eventer or dressage horse. This throws into doubt the rest of the comments made by this 'traveller', that he's a 'horse breeder', not something that can be managed well if you are on the move, where do you keep the mare when she's heavily in foal, how do you manage the stallion, where is the foal born - at the side of the road. As for a horse drowning if its ears go under the water - not true. Horses are actually fair swimmers if not interfered with by people.