Being in the right place but at the wrong time

[Birker2020]

Sometimes I think life is a series of twists and turns with a number of events that could be considered as fate. I was talking about this to a livery on our yard last night.

I went to visit a friend who used to be on our yard but moved last year. When I visited last July it wasn't long after I'd had Bailey pts so I was really interested in looking for another horse but on a subsequent visit noticed a stunning looking WB gelding in one of the stables, he was just 'my type' and I enquired to my friend about his owner. It transpired that she'd not long had him, he was only young but had done a little bit of jumping, hacking, etc but he was most loved and certainly wasn't for sale.

I then went on to buy my current horse, Lari, who as you may know has multiple issues and following 12 months of trying everything will never be ridden again and whom I looking at hopefully placing at the BB next year.

I still go on Horsequest to keep track of prices more than anything. So imagine my surprise when I saw that lovely WB for sale. Talk about being right place but wrong time! I'm not in the market to buy another at the moment but can't believe it, 12 months too late.

Do things like this every happen to you. Do you believe in fate or lack of?

 

[Ratface]

"What's for you, won't go by you." A saying of my old granny, which, over the years, I've found to be correct.
Good luck in finding your next best equine friend.

 

[mini-eventer]

He is for sale for a reason... he was most loved... it could be circumstances, but equally he might not be as lovely as he appeared.

Similar thing happened to me, someone local bought him and I kept a close eye. Retired less than 3 years later with navicular despite been sent to Rockley etc.

Now I don't think damn I missed out, I think lucky escape!

 

[Jess1994PM]

weirdly enough things like this happen to me quite abit - so back in april i was adamant about going back travelling and i applied for a visa for australia (my last one in 2018 came through within 24 hours) - my visa never got approved and was finalised for some reason - so i was super gutted at the time but about 3 weeks ago i came across my perfect filly and ive missed having my own horse as ive loaned for a few years and i decided to buy her with the money i had saved for travelling as ive always wanted a youngster since i started riding. Anyway a few days ago i get an email from the australian bureau to say there had been a mistake with my application and it is approved.

I have got so attached to my filly and i now couldnt imagine selling her on even after a few weeks.

 

[Highmileagecob]

Any chance of loan with a view to buy, or are you not in the right place right now?

 

[Birker2020]

Any chance of loan with a view to buy, or are you not in the right place right now?

Hi HMC. No afraid not, I need to keep Lari until I can get a place at the BB and can't afford two on livery.

I could call it a day with Lari and buy the other if he was suitable but Lari definitely deserves a chance of a new life, he's such a lovely boy, I can't do that to him.

 

[Birker2020]

He is for sale for a reason... he was most loved... it could be circumstances, but equally he might not be as lovely as he appeared.

Similar thing happened to me, someone local bought him and I kept a close eye. Retired less than 3 years later with navicular despite been sent to Rockley etc.

Now I don't think damn I missed out, I think lucky escape!

Yes you're probably right!

You did have a lucky escape.

 

[scats]

I tend to try and think everything happens for a reason, but it can be a hard pill to swallow sometimes.
Not quite the same but a few years ago I viewed a gelding twice at a dealers. He was a 5 year old and I did like him a lot, but he was funny to mount. You felt like he might panic and go up, though he never did. I actually viewed him twice, I liked him that much. Once you were on he was fine, but I’d had a dodgy to mount one who turned out to have kissing spines so I sadly walked away.
A couple of years later he popped up on FB, having been sold to a teenage girl and he had turned into a super smart SJer. I come across him every now and then online and he’s still doing well. I guess he’s my one that got away.

 

[throwawayaccount]

absolutely, everytime i've come to buy a new horse (haha, that sounds like i'm always buying horses!! i got my mare in 2020, and my gelding this year). after i'd bought both of them, my old pony came back up for sale.. each time! when i then couldn't afford to buy her back.

frustrating :/

 

[vhf]

I was offered my 'horse of a lifetime' back (no charge) when he was ready to stop high level competing - the week after I'd been told I was shortly being made redundant. Two weeks earlier I'd have snapped their hand off. Having never reconciled to selling him in the first place (it had been right home, wrong time!), it was hard.

 

[smolmaus]

It was about 10 years ago that my RI was selling a pony I was very much in love with, he was too much for a riding school, but I was in no place to have him, nowhere near. I was recovering from a skull fracture (not horse related) when he arrived, he was a fairly recent rescue still getting back on his feet and I had constructed a lovely little fairy tale about us just being meant for eachother. Not to be.

I still think about him and when I heard someone schooling in the arena next to me a few weeks ago call their little grey connie Midnight I got that kick-in-the-guts feeling. It could have been him, older and wiser and not the wriggly scatter brained little baby I rode, but I never got a chance to ask. I hope it was, it was a happy looking little pony.

 

[Green Bean]

It is my motto - everything happens for a reason!! I am one of those annoying advocates of this. I have been in too many situations, where if what I had planned had gone ahead, I would have been directly affected (for the worse), in all parts of my life. You don't understand it at the time, even getting frustrated and angry, but there it is.
That lovely WB would be yours if it was meant to be.
I bought my horse where for the first visit, I decided she wasn't for me. Went back to see her for a second time as I had a niggling voice in the back of my head and came home with her. Six months ago we parted company whilst out on a guided hack, mid gallop, knocked unconscious so had to have a CT scan at A&E. This scan picked up an anomaly which turned out to be a tumour I was unaware of as I had no symptoms. Had an operation to remove it and it appears to have been caught 'in time'. Without that niggle, who knows?

 

[Birker2020]

Well that horse that I spoke about in my OP was originally marked on the advert on the website as 'for sale' and then that changed to 'sold subject to vetting' and now it appears as 'sold' so he obviously passed his vetting. Good luck to the new owner, think she got a nice horse there.