Beautiful bargain horse...?

I have had the most fantastic horses from dealers, to even the keel I have also had horses from dealers so disturbed, so utterly terrored and screwed up that they were just bonkers- look at speedy- walking bloody disaster, one of the biggest mistakes yet, but my god was he a good jumper.
 
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Just goes to show good horses can come into dealers hands...however dubious their spelling!

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We had a fabulous gelding few months back, black. Full papered 16.2hh dutch. Girl paid £8000 for it, superbly schooled, jumped the moon but she bought him on the fact he was pretty! He started kickin out and refusing to go anywhere. We suggested getting his back done. She said no, hes just bad mannered. We offered £500 on the fact she said he was naughty. He had an equissage on 5 times which un knotted all hus muscles and he was back to a well schooled jumping horse in a week!
 
I guess in a lot of cases its not so much the dealer - after all who would go out to look for crap horses to sell - in that vein maybe its just some dealers are a little looser with their descriptions of the horses they have!
What one dealer may call a project horse - being open and honest might get a grand less but their rep remains intact whereas the bad dealers says its bombproof and great with kids, and off it goes down the road like a loonatic...dealer plus 1000 minus 1000 rep points...
 
QR. I don't think all dealers are bad. Most people know what happened when i went to look at a "safe as houses" pony from a dealer.
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. Looking back, I didnt ask the right questions... but I learnt from that.

At the end of the day dealers are in the buisness to make money. they get offered a cheap horse or a part x and take it on hoping they can make a profit from it. Sometimes it's a losing battle. If they have a horse in that's taking up valuable space and money they have to get rid of it. I think most dealers will not lie to you, just be economical with the truth and not tell you what you don't ask.
I'd avoid a dealer who offered finance in their adverts though!!
 
you want to watch Ramiro Z lines, they are a bit 'quirky' to say the least.

My Archie's Grandsire is Ramiro Z, and hes got his attitude for sure.

My friend also recently brought a Ramiro Z mare which she eventually had to give up with and send back.

Im not saying they are all like that, just my experience of them and other peoples that i know of.
 
If we have ever been ripped off on a horse it has always been from a Private home - don't trust PC mums. We bought a few Horses of Frankly International and they have all been nice.
 
I don't normally defend bad spelling/grammar, but if I had gone on my first instinct to NOT to go and see a horse after speaking to someone who sounded vague, a bit less than refined and, as it turned out, couldn't spell, I wouldn't have Fin! She was a very decent, straight person and I am very happy with my lad. Am usually a complete snob! Am also more than delighted with a pony we bought very cheaply from a 'hyphenated' dealer from Leics who sells (mostly) 'unbelievable' ponies! One never can tell, darling.
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I bought my gelding from a dealer for £200 in March 05, he was sold as a 7yr old eventer, was a crazed 9 yr old with a rearing and bolting problem, got 3 different people out to try and sort him but they couldnt, so I did things my own way and now were improving.

Why did I buy him? His paces and the look in his eye. Only go to a dealer if your lucky, I say.
 
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