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AthenesOwl

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No idea not been near the place in 15 years lol it's still a riding school tho tower farm in Edinburgh
I rode there for a few years, until about 4 or 5 years ago. I don’t think there were any opportunities to do vaulting, but while I was there they did take on a beautiful and enormous ex-vaulting horse for the school. I rode him once or twice, and he had a ridiculously comfortable trot.
 

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I rode there for a few years, until about 4 or 5 years ago. I don’t think there were any opportunities to do vaulting, but while I was there they did take on a beautiful and enormous ex-vaulting horse for the school. I rode him once or twice, and he had a ridiculously comfortable trot.
Aww was only ever staff and helpers really and sometimes when they had own a pony days etc not something they had as a regular lesson
 

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Youngish girl on Facebook selling horses. Lots of the recent pictures are of her in shorts riding about. I’ve only done this once as a stupid teenager and it bloomin hurt 😂.
I think I have seen the same ones and I'm like 'how?!' How and also why?

For some reason FB has decided I want to see Dun Dealers in my feed. I do not. (And have hidden the posts).
 

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Youngish girl on Facebook selling horses. Lots of the recent pictures are of her in shorts riding about. I’ve only done this once as a stupid teenager and it bloomin hurt 😂.

I did it once as a teenager. My mum told me it would hurt; I told her she was being old fashioned and boring, and it would be fine. She said ok.

She was right.

I don’t know how she didn’t spend the best week saying ‘I told you so.’
 

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I did it once as a teenager. My mum told me it would hurt; I told her she was being old fashioned and boring, and it would be fine. She said ok.

She was right.

I don’t know how she didn’t spend the best week saying ‘I told you so.’
We used to wear shorts and bikini tops with our trainers to hack out in the summer classy 🤣🤣

I used to be on a yard in Essex years ago and the teenage girls there hacked out wearing little handbags on there shoulders 🤣🤣
 

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Most likely, he was an incredibly smart looking horse and very amicable it sounds if he's 'happily' in full work with that condition - desperately sad.
I would take him for £1 just because it made me sad, but something tells me they wouldn't take it... Some novice somewhere is going to have a very abrupt introduction into what it is to be a horse owner/buy a horse.
 

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Ridiculous response to a sales ad someone clearly hasn’t read properly. For a horse that’s competed dressage successfully in the past and had spent a year or so being a broodmare…..is she broken?

🤔 no, we just take them straight into the test and hope for the best. Rodeo dressage- a whole new sport 🤣

Perhaps they meant it as in “is it injured?” - if it’s had a year off to have a foal?
 

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"For sale through no fault of his own, 5 star home is an absolute must for this lovely boy. Price reflects the fact that he would NOT PASS a 2 stage vetting. You are getting a £10K horse for £4K. So, not surprisingly the price is NOT negotiable."

So if he were sound he'd be worth a lot more? Fair enough, but if he's not sound he's not a £10k horse!
 

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Someone trying to sell a 3.5t horsebox for £1000 with this list of 'repair immediately' MOT advisories (and this list isn't including the 'repair soon' and 'advised to repair' sections!)
They claim they're injured and can't drive, but I'm calling lies. I think the mechanic offered them £450 scrap after this MOT failure and they're chancing their arm that some idiot will take it.
To even weld a repair on these things (I can weld myself) you need something to anchor the plate/new steel section to and it just sounds like this is dust pretty much throughout structurally.

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"For sale through no fault of his own, 5 star home is an absolute must for this lovely boy. Price reflects the fact that he would NOT PASS a 2 stage vetting. You are getting a £10K horse for £4K. So, not surprisingly the price is NOT negotiable."

So if he were sound he'd be worth a lot more? Fair enough, but if he's not sound he's not a £10k horse!
What are you supposed to do with a £10K horse that's broken I wonder? 😂. £4K is a lot of money for a field ornament, that may or may not require regular veterinary treatment/investigations 😳
 

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"Hey I'm desperate to find a new horse either on full loan or under 1k. I'm looking for a TB or ISH needs to be 16h or up.preferably a gelding but open to a mare. [...]also needs to be well behaved and nothing that bucks,bolts or rears. Needs to be and all rounder and hacks alone or with company. Thank you pls try and help me as I'm desperate for a new best friend."
 
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