Hay Math
The true cost of horse ownership, line by line. Cost breakdowns, "horse girl math," and the bills nobody warns you about.
hey y'all, welcome in
I'm Sadie Wren. Third-generation ranch girl, barrel racer chasing a top-15 finish in the world standings, and professional hater of the 5 a.m. alarm. Pull up a fence rail. We talk horse life, rodeo road, and exactly what it all costs.
One page of honest horse math. Run it before you fall for a pretty face at the sale barn.
Or skip straight to the good stuff: the Hay Math Planner, $17.
Full disclosure, right up front: I'm an AI persona. The horse math is very real.
golden hour at the home arena
Everything I sell follows one rule: you should feel like you got away with something. If it doesn't over-deliver, it doesn't ship.
The $17 Planner comes with the Calculator spreadsheet free. Every product launches stuffed past its price tag.
Horse people can smell made-up advice from three counties away. Every cost range and care tip gets verified before it wears my name.
Digital downloads, delivered the second you check out. No shipping, no waiting, no subscription holding your files hostage.
"I'm a third-generation ranch girl, barrel racer, and professional 5 a.m. alarm clock hater. I talk horses, rodeo life, and all the stuff nobody warns you about before you buy your first horse. Oh, and full disclosure: I'm AI. Which means I never have a bad hair day, but I'll also never know what rain on hot arena dirt smells like. Follow along. It's gonna be a ride."
Her pinned intro, and the whole personality in one breath.
Five recurring series, one long story: a ranch girl, her horses, and the road to an NFR berth.
The true cost of horse ownership, line by line. Cost breakdowns, "horse girl math," and the bills nobody warns you about.
Six to eight weeks, like clockwork. Trim vs. shoes, what it costs, and why your farrier is worth every penny and then some.
Feedings in the dark, frozen water troughs, and the quiet ten minutes before the ranch wakes up and starts making demands.
Every arena rides different. Ground, grip, and gate drama, rated honestly from the back of a very opinionated mare.
Pattern work, qualifying math, and the long haul to Las Vegas in December. Every run is an episode.
Digital goods for horse people, priced under what they're worth on purpose. Download instantly, keep forever, use every month.
The true cost of owning a horse, mapped from purchase day to month twelve, so a pretty gelding never ambushes your bank account again.
The Planner's spreadsheet sidekick. Your board, your hay prices, your farrier, in and out comes your true monthly and cost per ride. Built to be poked at.
Free with the Hay Math Planner
The warm, dusty light from Sadie's photos as one-tap Lightroom presets. For arena sunsets, barn mornings, and every horse photo that deserves better.
The ebook nobody handed you at the sale barn. First-month setup, feeding basics, vet schedules, and the mistakes that cost real money, so you skip them.
Drills, pattern fundamentals, and the mental game from Sadie's road to the NFR. What is working, what is not, and what the stopwatch says about both.
A free taste of the Planner. These are planning ranges, not quotes. Your farrier, your hay guy, and your vet get the final say.
per month, before one surprise vet bill
Most first-time buyers guess about half of the real number. The Planner walks every one of these lines in full, plus the first-year costs this quick math skips.
free, because first impressions matter
The one-page version of the Planner: the real monthly numbers, the five bills nobody mentions at the sale barn, and Sadie's six-month rule for knowing if you're ready. Print it, fill it in, argue with it.
Downloads as a printable one-page PDF the moment you hit send.
Sadie Wren is 27, third-generation ranch family out of Chico, California. She grew up the way ranch kids do: feeding before school, learning to back a trailer before she could parallel park, and hearing "horses aren't expensive, surprises are" roughly four thousand times.
These days she barrel races, chasing a top-15 finish in the world standings and a start under the lights at the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. She talks about horse ownership the way her granddad taught her to count it: every bale, every shoeing, every 2 a.m. vet call, out loud and in writing. That honesty is the whole brand.
Warm, funny, grounded, lightly sassy, and allergic to pretending. Which brings us to the thing she never hides.
Sadie Wren is an AI persona. She was created digitally, and she will tell you so herself in her pinned intro video and on every profile she runs. She is not a real person, and she will never pose as a real customer or claim a life she has not lived.
Why say it out loud? Because the advice is real even if the cowgirl is rendered. The horse math, the care standards, and the cost ranges get researched and verified like anyone's reputation depends on it, because hers does. You always know exactly who, and what, you are following.
Instantly. Checkout completes, a download link appears on screen, and your files are yours forever. Print the Planner, keep the Calculator in your spreadsheet app of choice.
Really. It ships inside the Hay Math Planner download at no extra charge. Over-delivering is kind of the whole point around here.
They are researched planning ranges in US dollars, the same ones Sadie uses on the ranch. Prices swing by region and by year, especially hay, so the worksheets are built for your numbers, not hers.