............and how did you come by your current horse/s?

gala said:
Exmoor pony...went to the Exmoor pony sales with Ravenwood. Had no money or trailer, just having a day out. Canny Exmoor farmers make you go through the beer tent to get to the ringside, plying you with mind altering substance ( cider) as you pass through. Reached ringside with crossed eyes, wobbly knees and bidders number in hand..how did that get there? Watched in a sort of detached horrified way as my hand went up to bid for a foal (oh look someone is bidding...aaarrrgh it's me). Hammer goes down, bang, lot 41 sold to the lady with the crossed eyes.
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LOL! This made me giggle :D
 
I started helping out for my mom's friend. After i'd been there a while, she offered me Tont to loan as a project to break to ride. It didn't work out, although I was desperately in love with him. She offered to swap Tont for one of her others, Tim, who was a ready made ride and drive. It was the worst mistake of my life to take him on, because I then fell in love with him too. Then Sue said she was going to sell one of them and it was my choice who went. It was the most difficult decision but I chose Tont as I had the strongest bond with him.

I miss Tim every day but for christmas I was given legal ownership of Tont and we have come so far. I can now do anything with him and he is my little riding pony, and he means the world to me :)

Sorry for the mammoth post, Nicole :D
 
Joe was advertised in the local feed shop free to good home, we went to see him and his owner was going on about how dangerous he was and she was going to put him down, i feel in love with him and i could see he was very insecure. it took us 9 hours to load him but i have never looked back, he is such a superstar and has given me so much confidence.
 
i bought my first proper big horse straight from ireland, flew over to try him, rode him for about an hour, liked him didnt feel totally right but being 16 desperate for my first horse coming from ponies, i told mum he was perfect and she wasnt sure, but bought him anyway, i had him six weeks, we never got on at all, found out one of my friends was selling his horse, he loved manny (the horse i brought from ireland) and we just done a straight swap, and I got the best horse i could ever ask for, a 3yr old ID dapple grey, called taz :D and i will never ever look back, if only I had bought Taz when i had the chance the first time lol
 
Well Id put an ad.horse wanted for permanant loan/view to buy .A lady contacted me,come got me (I dont drive).The horse she wanted me to loan/buy was supposidly a cob x but it had spinderly legs and I wasnt comfatble sitting on her (nervous) then I saw this gorgeous coloured cob in the field.She said he wasnt for sale,so her partner got the horse up from the field,it was love at sight,I wanted him and by the end of the day,a deal was done.They delivered him few weeks later and I bought him outright. I also got a little section A pony which I did loan. Still have both and will do forever!!!!!
 
I had a beautiful mare on trial for 6 weeks and she was the perfect horse for me except every time you touched the rain, it would bolt up right rear, I didn't mind and learnt to sit the rears but my gran made me give her up.
I was 13 at the time and wanted the 'perfect' horse! But she found me a scrawny, very hairy traditional cob that was broken to harness and freshly backed! I hated him to start with, couldn't hack him out, couldn't jump couldn't do anything with him, until one day something just clicked and now I wouldn't change him for the world! He is my 'perfect' horse!!
 
Well, i'd given up looking to be honest....
Freebie paper came through the door...
Had a look out of curiosity! He was for sale, bought him xD
Sort of fate really :)
Had him nearly 7 years now!
 
Joe - My aunties two horses both had to be put down within seven months of each other so my parents decided to get my something of my own on loan. They warned me I wasnt getting the first thing I seen, but a month later I went to see Joe, a chestnut wee school master, and then had him at home! Had him for a good three/four years until I got too big and had to pass him on :(

Troy - After doing my HNC at college and then suffering a bad accident, I decided to get myself a safe, heavy, not-too-high up, wellschool-ed boy. I spent months looking, and then my dad showed me a 16hh ex-racehorse TB 4y/o bay gelding :) and it was love! He can be, a little sod, but I love him :) & the fact that in the time I've had him he's gone from 16hh to 16.3hh :|
 
Totally unexpected!
My previous horse retired and I had a 5 yr break from horses, then decided to have lessons again with friend at local riding school, we both became totally obsessed again and she decided to buy a horse.
The first place we went to look was a wb dealer and when we came to the first stable door he said how about this one she said no too small. I couldn't believe it so said I would try him & that was it for me had too have him. And borrowed the money off my mum for him as boyfriend was not happy.
 
we had a brilliant horse 4 my son found throu friends then my son also got another horse as he worked in a jumping yard he wasnt allowed the time 2 work with the 1st horse so very begrudingly we sold him then that person didnt get on with him sold him 2 a gd dealer who then passed him on2 another 1 further up country weve been told we desperatly want some info on this horse if anybody knows of him or were abouts we would love 2 no about him and have 1st reserve on him hes a 15 3 irish draft x a dun colour white sock he was called guinness he has a freeze mark under the saddle and a big white blaze we are desperate any info plz email hope sum1 out there can help many thanks michelle
 
My mare was kept on livery at the yard I worked at, and I often looked after her and generally thought she was lovely. She bucked her owner off out hacking, who then broke her ankle, and wanted Bonnie gone! I probably paid too much for her, just because I didn't want her ending up somewhere bad through no fault of her own. (Turns out, her saddle was a horrendous fit, no wonder she bucked!)
 
Had been looking for a share horse in the area for ages, it had to be close because my parents didn't want to drive me far and we couldn't afford the livery to have one on loan. I was actually beginning to despair because there just seemed to be nothing, and everyone I called never rung back. My friend who I used to ride with had gotten her own horse (and I was hopelessly jealous, not that i'm proud of it, because i'd worked at yards for years trying to prove myself and she had done nothing), but then one day she texted me saying she thought she might have found me a pony share. I went to see him that weekend and i've never looked back.
 
I got the lovely Kao from some dealers in Kidderminster.
He was skinny, nervous (still is) and looked like a manic depressive.
He's now fat, clean, shaved and getting used to everything.

It's amazing how much a horse can change in 5weeks.
 
First pony had been looking nearly a year tried lots didnt like anything, found one and tried her on the easter sunday she came home 2 days after and never looked back. The perfect horse ridden, in-hand evil and has had so many health issues. But wouldnt change her for a minute.

Second one got this year and shes related to 1st didnt realise at the time, got her from person who owned other horse years ago. And she really is the nicest quitest youngster i could have asked for.

Third came 2 weeks after 2nd and shes a shetland x from horseworld.
 
My parents bought my current horse Seren from an auction in Wales for me back in 1992 when I was 11yrs old, she has been with me ever since, thankfully I have never outgrown her, she is my horse of a life time without doubt :D
 
well my mum only wanted me to get one on loan but then we looked at the ads in countrywide and my mum saw jack and said " oh isnt that pony beautiful" and i siad "YEP LETS BUY HIM " as a joke and she took the number rang up and we went to see him
after we went to see another horse that chucked me off and went straight back to jack's owners and said when can we come and pick him up :)
 
Mazzie - via word of mouth from an Argentine pro.

Genie - Saw the ad on horsemart. Was planning on selling Mazzie so thought I may as well start looking. E-mailed about her, arranged to go and see her, and fell in love. Agreed a price and arranged the vetting. The day before her vetting Mazzie was killed in a trailer accident, and I almost cancelled the vetting but was told by my instructor to go ahead. Genie passed and came home that day, the day after Mazzie went. She helped me move on and I couldn't wish for a better horse, she's been everything I could ever need or want.

Milly - Moved Genie to her owner's yard for 3 weeks when in-between yards. Ran her for her at a show, and let her owner know how much I loved her. Owner had to downsize, so I got Titch! :D
 
monkeybum13 said:
from this forum! :D
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Ditto :) First saw mine when a forum member bought her from the breeder (also on the forum), and thought how nice she was. Fast forward a year or so, and I had sold my coloured mare subject to vetting, viewed Floppy, loved her but then the coloured failed the vetting. More time passed, the coloured sold unexpectedly and I viewed a couple of others, nearly ended up buying a lovely Tb mare but all suddenly came together with Flops and she came home with me :D
She is definitely a keeper, and I am forever indebted to Weezy for selling her to me :)
 
Mony - belonged to a woman who thought having horses was as simple as leaving two yearlings out in all weathers with no shelter, no food or hay and oh yes...no one going up to check them. She had a parrot jaw and the vet thought we were mad when I paid £75 for her and said I would have her when the woman was visited by the RSPCA who told her a few home truths. I was told to have her pts as she wouldn't survive, 30 years on and she is now my middle daughters pony!

Willow was bought from a rescue centre as a companion for Mony for £100, he was wild and we managed to back him but he never really liked being ridden so we retired him early as a pet.

Star was given to me by one of our liveries when we had our own yard. She was ill and struggled to look after Star, could bring herself to sell her so gave her to me for my youngest daughter. I have owned Star for nearly 13 years now.

Kosha was sold to me for £50 by a friend because he was wild and she had no use for him. A week after I bought him I backed him and he was being ridden my my youngest!

Sovereign was my friends mare, I knew her years before my friend bought her and always wanted her. We knew she was at least 26 when I paid £50, best bargain ever, I got all her rugs (about 7 of them), amonths worth of feed, bridle, headcollars, grooming kit and buckets for that £50! My friend was just happy for me to have her! When we got my vet to do her teeth and give her a check over, turns out she was nearly 40 at least and I then found an owner from when Sov was 14 and turned out she was more like 36. My friend was in shock! We bought her in March last year.
 
Lilly - was bored driving round with my friend one Saturday and drove past a sign saying foals for sale. So thought, lets go and have a look out of interest. There were about 8 tiny fluffy foals in a metal pen, skinny, wormy and matted. When you went in the pen they all panicked and ran for their lives. I felt really sad and was immediately drawn to a tiny dark bay filly with a white stripe down her face. I offered him £150 and he accepted. That same day he dropped her off. I thought, what an earth have I done!! She was wild and a mess and only 5 months old!! A year on and she's shot up in height, light bay and rather plump! Absoloutely loving filly, and so laid back it's untrue! Could never sell her now!

Skye - I wanted to buy a riding horse, a Wamrblood, TBx or ISH, around 15.2hh that was broken and I was obsessed with getting a black. All seemed way out of my price range though. Went to see a few others at a dealer's yard but none to my taste and non were black! Then one day I looked on horsedeals and the first ad to come up was a 14.3hh rising 3 Black British Warmblood gelding for a reasonable price, he looked gorgeous. I rang the seller immediately and she had literally put the ad up 10 minutes earlier. She was a breeder of competition horses and he sounded perfect for me, however she was in Devon and I'm in Kent! I was just thinking realistically about viewing and buying a horse so far away and then ended up making a crazy decision of buying him without viewing!! When he arrived a few weeks later he was more stunning then I ever imagined!! And with a temperament to die for!! He has amazing movement and is currently being broken and taking it all so well. I made the best decision I ever could have. I have my dream horse in everyway!!
 
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