Advertising horses

Okay (all theoretically of course) ...

If you had a horse in your care that you wanted to put on loan to a very specific home and advertised it on a 'horses for sale website'

You put up a picture and make it very clear that the horse competed at a major equestrian event the previous year

A user on an internet forum see's this advert and starts a thread to find out who the horse is

A few forum members start trying to find out who the horse is

(I didn't see the thread but am led to believe nothing defamatory was written about the horse or the person who was loaning it)

The thread then disappears

A new thread might possibly be started asking where the disappeared thread was. This new thread was pretty tame and had pretty much fizzled out ....

Loaner of horse then comes on and has a bit of a hissy fit saying that people had absolutely no right to research the horse, try and find out who the horse was and were completely irresponsible

A few people then pointed out that if the horses identity was so sacred then why on earth was it on the internet, with a picture and reference to it's previous competitive CV ....

That thread also disappears

(PS, said horse was still on said website last I looked)
 
He's still there. Not sure what the issue is and HHO'rs may be the key to providing him with a fab new home.
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Why advertise him online then and not go word of mouth?
 
kerilli, have pm'd you.


i find this all a bit wierd to be honest?

i saw the thread last night so there were only a couple of posts on it so came back tonight to find it had gone! can anyone enlighten me what happened?
 
When my lot advertised BB they listed his results (which were great and made him sound like some kind of superhorse). They'd have been stupid not to but equally stupid to have lied about them. With BE, it's all in the public domain which is why BE is such a great sport and their website is so excellent.
 
If you look at the horse that has had a name change its record only shows for 2007 it misses out 2006 when it was competing under a different guise. It clearly does work changing a name.

This is where I think BSJA is stronger than BE because BSJA has all my horses data about what he looks like and passport details so I could not just leave it for a year re-register him as something else and get good results thus adding value.
 
Even I, as a complete numpty, would do this. A horse is an expesive purchase, surely finding out as much about it as you can pre-purchase is the sensible thing to do. So many competitions put their results online these days, that a bit of investigating a bit of asking around can usually tell you everything you need to know.

Kerilli's comments about her horses' results making them look iffy is a really good example. If I was going to buy one of her horses (as if...) , I would defo look up the comp record - and then I'd make a point of asking her about it when I went to see the horse.
 
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