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we have been looking for nearly 11 months for a horse for my daughter. we have had fingers burnt twice before and once being earlier this year but thankfully this time got money back. i am now quite cautious . was reading horse deals last night and saw nice horse advertised ( owner at university so has not enough time to bring out full potential) i then turned over the page and there was the same rider in same clothes but says (for sale because of non horsey injury) why do people do this. i am beginning to lose all hope of ever finding a nice horse.
 
Maybe it's both reasons and they forgot or didn't think about the fact that they'd said different things on each? Doesn't necessarily mean the horse is no good...

(Yes I have SUCKER written on my forehead
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Grrrrrr dont get me started on this one.........It took me ages to find a horse when I was looking, we travelled miles after asking all the right questions but still ended up being misled!!!! I am now selling my boy as I am pregnant and have a condition called SPD and cant cope with looking after him and have written a totally honest ad but cant for the life of me sell him. WHY?
 
Humph - the best one I had was having rung up about a horse advertised as "recently won XC at such and such event" I was told that they'd entered him under his stable name and a local rider had ridden it for them and that I could check the placing on the centre's website. I didn't need to because they'd just given me my own horse's stable name with my daughter as the local rider!
 
we have been up and down the country after spending ages on the phone asking everything. i have seen one that you could not even tack up so did not even get to try. one that reared like it should of been in a circus and my daughter just slid down its back.i saw one lovely one but it had the biggest lump on its withers right where your saddle would fit like a second head growing, and the hottest swollen glands i have ever seen. i don't mind some issues as long as i know before and can make a choice to then travel to see it, but they wait till you get there and you find out.
 
Speaking of dodgy sales, I know someone who is selling a horse who can't eat hay/straw - has to be fed on chaff (we're talking serious consequences if it eats hay), hasn't mentioned it in the ad - oh and it keeps chucking people off, the last one ended up in air ambulance - for the bargain price of £3500!!!!
 
since i have been coming on here though i have found it so helpful. if you are not sure there is always someone who can put you straight.
 
Dont actually no what your looking for but if you are after a 16.2hh really safe pre novice eventer, perfect hack easy ride, fab hunter, 9yo then PM me i have had this horse from 3 and is 100% genuine sale.
 
Strikes me that we need to set up a thread with what we are each looking for (sellers and buyers) and then people can match horses and riders. So many people on here know each others horses that independent assessments could be made of horse (and rider!). rouble is it's against forum advertising rules I guess.

I got my new mare through someone on here asking why an advert wasn't doing well. She's just what we wanted and came with comments from other people on here who knew her/knew of her. Sadly she's out for months following a field injury two weeks after we bought her and I'm currently hoping to buy a horse off another forum member, again that will have been mainly through word of mouth. In fact I'm hoping to get a pm today from another forum member who's ridden it, giving their impression, before I travel the five hours or so to see it.
 
am looking for 15.3h-16.1h , between 6-9yo. jumping up to 1.10m, able to do an unaff dressage test, perfect to hack, mare or gelding. must be able to travel in trailer. i think a nice genuine horse that most people would like.
 
i think that is a good idea. i know its advertising but it would save a fortune in time of work and petrol. when we had ponies they were bought from us through word of mouth, or someone seeing them at shows. i just find it harder to find a nice horse,
 
Is daisy's horse no good - or is it just that bit too big?

My big problem is that I'm not looking for superb performance, just a really "nice" horse my daughter feels comfortable on and of course, having shelled out for one just three weeks ago, I'm really short of cash now.
 
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was reading horse deals last night and saw nice horse advertised ( owner at university so has not enough time to bring out full potential) i then turned over the page and there was the same rider in same clothes but says (for sale because of non horsey injury) why do people do this.

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Maybe they were both at the same professional yard to be sold due to the above reasons
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I feel so incredibly lucky, I saw George advertised on Horsemart and discovered he was only 10 miles away, saw him and fell hook line and sinker. The owner was really lovely and supportive and let me try him out 4 times. In that time I discovered she was a qualified instructor, so when she delivered George (free of charge) I asked if she would be my instructor and she said yes. She has been brilliant with me, not too mention moving George for me, helping me out last week when G went a bit potty with the move - and of course George has turned out to be a star!! Thank goodness I found an honest and kind seller.

If it's any consolation before I bought George I did fall off one of the horses I tried and broke my nose and finger!
 
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No offence, but isn't it a bit late in the year for 'selling-due-to-uni'? Term started weeks ago! Have they only just noticed that they are at university?
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Not really, am seriously considering selling my mare, I thought I would have time but the amount of work I have to do plus being a full time carer and trying to keep house tidy I'm slowly going nuts
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though would be willing to put my mare on loan .. if anyone wants her
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No offence, but isn't it a bit late in the year for 'selling-due-to-uni'? Term started weeks ago! Have they only just noticed that they are at university?
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Well also, selling a horse can take some time. I know Spiral tried to sell her lovely girl at the beginning of the summer before she went to uni, and was still worrying that she'd not get her sold in time for term starting.

I think loads of people think they'll keep them and get one more summer of fun out of them. Then when they put them up for sale in Sept the market is flooded with quite of lot of the same kind of horses for this exact reason...

Then there is the scenario of course where once they get to uni they realise they've not the time. I have a vet student friend who tried to keep her horse to start with, but time commitments meant she soon decided to sell.

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i bought my horse from a forum member who did a how much post..i wasnt even looking really and wasnt going to buy this side of winter but saw the post and just HAD to see this horse.i also had the opportunity of speaking to people who knew the horse.
 
Oooh, I might be interested in the horses that have come up in the south west siennamum. New on here but havinga nightmare time trying to find a nice hacking hoss....is it really so difficult?!PM me if there's anything £2500 or less.
 
I simply don't understand why people do this - not only is there the chance of your potential buyer just getting in the car and driving away again, wasting your day AND theirs, but if they do buy the horse I would be on a knife edge waiting for the call demanding a refund, alternating with beating myself up with imagined horrific incidents.

I guess this is why i have always bought horses with a checkable past from local people - no nasty surprises!
 
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