A big thank you to all who responded to my tack room break in

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As title, a very big thank you to everyone who has replied to my thread - too many to reply to individually! We have a couple of leads to follow but we have seen a saddle with Sprenger stirrups,
looking very much like ours, online which we are following up. Equine police officers spent afternoon at the yard. Really, really cheesed off with one livery who I nearly had an argument with tonight (she even rang my husband) stating we should forget the loss of our tack (she lost nothing) in case the thieves came back and killed the horses and my liveries would leave because they were worried the horses would be killed!!! Arghhhh! X
 
I hope the leads turns out to be what your hoping for!

As for your livery, I'd tell them to either quit the drama or go be a drama on someone else's yard!
 
I would strongly recommend that any new tack etc. is tack marked and that everything else is marked with Smartwater. www.smartwater.com. This will ensure that it can be easily identified if stolen. In some cases thieves are known to return a couple of month later as they know that the tack will have been replaced by new tack.
 
Ah. A friend of mine never left her tack at a yard she was at for a short time, until one day when she was in a rush and thought 'oh, sod it' and left it there, the first and only time. Both her saddles and bridles were pinched that very night, hers and one other livery, the others' were untouched - makes youu wonder!
 
Marmalade76, that really is Sod's law! Had so many offers of loan saddles and tack from friends......we have lost SO MUCH! We could lay our hands on anything - we had just about everything but now we have ****** all! Surprisingly, thieves didn't take our clippers nor large bundle of assorted bits tied together with baling twine hanging from a hook in the tack room!!!
 
Thieving dirty rotten b********s.
I hope that saddle IS indeed yours and you get it back. And its really a shame we don't follow the Saudi way of things....and chop the hands off the thieving scumbags!
 
That's the worst thing about break ins I think, not the big items you remember to report, but all the useful spares and nic nacs you've accumulated over the years. On your last post I said we didn't keep tack the stables anymore, but that hasn't stopped us having 4 generators, jump wings, rugs and more surprisingly the batteries and diesel from the sodding horse box!
 
keeperscottage said:
Marmalade76, that really is Sod's law! Had so many offers of loan saddles and tack from friends......we have lost SO MUCH! We could lay our hands on anything - we had just about everything but now we have ****** all! Surprisingly, thieves didn't take our clippers nor large bundle of assorted bits tied together with baling twine hanging from a hook in the tack room!!!
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I came to the conclusion that they weren't horsey people, just scumbag thieves who had been told to get saddles, bridles and rugs. They left my clippers too and XC boots that cost a fortune, but took a broken old pony saddle and some really crap bridles. Thankfully ours never came back (thieves).

Nowadays I scurry things away (used to have a perfect tackroom with all rugs on shelves etc) and just leave a few crap ripped old rugs out and broken tack, so that if they ever steal again they won't make any money from us and will hopefully deem us as paupers and not worth robbing from.

I've also just painted "stolen if not at...(my postcode)" on my rugs that the horses are wearing.
 
To your livery, I would have said "that sounds like suspicious talk to me!".

Hmmm...she had nothing taken and is discouraging police investigation. Finger print her!
 
keeperscottage said:
As title, a very big thank you to everyone who has replied to my thread - too many to reply to individually! We have a couple of leads to follow but we have seen a saddle with Sprenger stirrups,
looking very much like ours, online which we are following up. Equine police officers spent afternoon at the yard. Really, really cheesed off with one livery who I nearly had an argument with tonight (she even rang my husband) stating we should forget the loss of our tack (she lost nothing) in case the thieves came back and killed the horses and my liveries would leave because they were worried the horses would be killed!!! Arghhhh! X
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Sorry, didn't catch your earlier post but I hope you are able to make a claim for your tack.

A lot of insurance companies these days don't cover unless its in a brick built building with a mortice lock and alarm. I don't bother to insure mine now as we don't come under that criteria but we have two houses on site and enough guard dogs and otherwise to kill an army so I guess we are more than safe!

Another little somethign the insurance companies don't point out until you claim.
 
OrangePepper said:
I would strongly recommend that any new tack etc. is tack marked and that everything else is marked with Smartwater. www.smartwater.com. This will ensure that it can be easily identified if stolen. In some cases thieves are known to return a couple of month later as they know that the tack will have been replaced by new tack.
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I'd strongly recommend tack is not kept at the yard.

Hope the leads turn out ok OP.
 
We had a break in a year or so ago, they took absolutely everything except the horses (thank god!). We did get paid put for some of the tack, but the most annoying thing is that they took the 25 yrs worth of accumulated "crap" like bits, bridle spares, rugs, saddle pads, stirrups, etc
You don't realise you need it until it is gone!
Hope you get at least some of your stuff back :) x
 
essex_rider said:
We had a break in a year or so ago, they took absolutely everything except the horses (thank god!). We did get paid put for some of the tack, but the most annoying thing is that they took the 25 yrs worth of accumulated "crap" like bits, bridle spares, rugs, saddle pads, stirrups, etc
You don't realise you need it until it is gone!
Hope you get at least some of your stuff back :) x
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Yes, and it was only when it was stolen that I realised that I didn't know what size bit the ponies took, or what size stirrups/leathers had been on which saddles etc.
 
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