Beeston sales

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Anybody go? Used to be my "local", I'm going next week purely out of interest (don't think I can fit anything into the Mini). I have lots of memories of daft prices, TB colts for £30 and so on, and forcing myself not to bid for half the sob stories. A little chestnut mare wearing full harness, with a nasty barbed wire scar down one leg and the gentlest, saddest face sticks in my memory particularly. It will be extra hard this time as YO is a sucker for a rescue case.
Anyone bought anything from there?
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I used to go too. We loved it, well more the tack auction bit, I used to hate looking round the horses as it could be so sad.
We went once and a friend felt sorry for a black colt that was trampled on in the cattle trailer it had arrived in along with about 6 others. He was described as Hanovarian, yeah right! He cost her about £100 and probably another £500 in vets fees, gelding, he had ringworm, lice etc. She soon left the yard, we lost touch and I bumped into her a couple of years later feeding a horse in a local field. It was a stunning warmblood and it was that poor colt she'd rescued from Beeston.
Another lady bought a placid Welsh mare hopefully for her son with a foal at foot, mainly because she felt sorry for her.
The next day she couldnt get near her, she had been doped and was wild off the moors, her ear was clipped, she said something to do with certain herds???
Well less than a year later she had another foal, so she must have been caught just before she went to auction!
 
It's my 'local' too, but I don't get to go there very often nowadays.

Big changes for the better now, thank heavens.
There is still the odd horse there that tugs at your heart strings, but most are pretty well looked after, and cheapies like you used to see, are few and far between.

Have bought from there more than once, and never regretted it.
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Ooh, and last time I went, a few weeks ago, I bought three pairs of William Funnell jods for £35! Always good for the odd bargain!
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Think you do still get a few sad cases there (and not just horses lol) I know of a few of the regular dealers that go there, one woman I used to work for that had 40 horses took off her recently (but then I believe were returned), her place is like Belson for horses and she's usually looking for a cheap Thoroughbred, sometimes a cob or pony but don't think she's there that often anymore. I bought a coloured cob from there about 15 years ago, he was 25+ and on his last legs really (we felt sorry for him) but he had a good 6 months or so with us. Be wary, I do know like I say of some of the regulars there (I bought my TB in siggy off one of them) and I do know that they do dope and they also bute unsound things up. Bought the Highland in my siggy from a dealer too, interstingly she also has her ear clipped but isn't wild although hasn't done much other than be a brood mare by the way she rides! Have fun if you go, the tack auction is always worth a look.
 
I have bought 5 ponies/horses from there, had 4 realy good ones and 1 bad one (doped).
The 4 realy good ones included harvey my 12.2hh first pony who was an absoloute star, took us right the way through pony club, local shows, county shows, hunter trials, Mounted games, you name it he did it and looked spectacular doing it. I still have him and he is living out his old age in style! (26 now) he was the grand total of £250. Pride a 14hh SHP absolutely stunning to look at and knows his job in the show ring, he was 2 years older then advertised but that didnt bother us and he is an absolute saint to ride, put anything on him and he looks after them, again we still have him and at the age of 25 he is still winning at county shows!. Squeak was a 13.2 connemara cross, anouther saint of a pony, unfortunately i didnt have him long enough to do much with him as 9 months after i got him he coliced twisted his gut and didnt survive the trip to leahurst. and Ally my 16hh riding horse that we bought last august for half his value on the open market so far he has been almost everything the dealer said he was (not as well schooled but brilliant to hunt and safe as houses on the road).
 
Yep , used to go there when I was a kid and also Tarporley. Got lots of good tack and kit really cheap. The horse sales were often sad. I remember a really sweet horse who's elderly owner had gone into hospital and the poor horse found himself there. I was really pleased to see him go to a nice family, might have found us phoning round desperately for transport if he hadn't!

Childhood memories of horse sale were getting up before light racing down the M6 and having a T in a polystyrene cup and a bacon butty whilst we started looking round. I can understand fatarse2 being disappointed, things change and you expect to go back down memory lane - it can spoil it.
 
I used to go quite a lot, not been for a few months. Tend not to go to the horse pens very often, worried I might buy something, but have had some good tack bargains. A few years ago a friend bought a little bay 12.2 pony for around £150, backed it and her sister started competing it and then they sold it on. It ended up one of the top 128cm JAs in the country (I think she is still competing, not sure if I should name her).
 
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