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To save confusion the horse was called tictoc , it predates actual TikTok
Cheeky/ridiculous posts you see on Facebook.
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Ceifer
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I think for that price given the sarcoids, the green nature and disclosure of being a bit spicy is good.
However these days people (not singling out that dealer) are trying to sell horses/ponies for up to 10x that price minus the behavioural disclosure.
Tiddlypom
Carries on creakily
Yes, I remember. He was owned and bred by an HHOer. IIRC he got the horse back from KT, but the horse was never the same again.
ETA Old posts from 2016.
Yes ! looks like im stuck with him . Anybody need another lawn mower?he has never forgotten .
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Pinkvboots
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I think they knew he was good but if they put him up for alot of money he wouldn't pass a vetting, plus he looked like crap he was poor and had awful feet, I feel she was pretty honest about him but I think you need to be careful dealing with those sort of people.
The day we tried him it was in the middle of a thunder storm pony jumped everything didn't bat an eyelid.
piebaldproblems
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Lambcote Leroy, 15hh Riding Gelding for sale in Penrith | Dragon Driving
Lambcote Leroy, 15hh, thought to be ISH, 7 years old, really lovely boy inside and out. Has popped a small jump, excellent hack, good in traffic.
www.dragondriving.co.uk
I'm sure I recognise this horse from HHO?
Roxylola
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Catembi sold him as a companion, got a lot of hassle from someone who bought him further down the line for having said he was unsuitable for ridden life due to a pssm positive result. They had all sorts of plans for him apparently but I'd guess that's come to nothing judging by the price tag, not enough for something successfully grassroots eventing, however too much for a companion. Sad that he's been passed on and on when she thought she was doing right by him.
Regardless of the veracity of the pssm genetic testing I think most people test for a reason and there clearly is something troubling that lad
Regardless of the veracity of the pssm genetic testing I think most people test for a reason and there clearly is something troubling that lad
catembi
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OMG, not Leroy again! I sold him as a companion to a ‘lovely lady’ who said she wanted a youngster to grow old with. Forever home, knowledge owner. She promptly sold him on without telling me and I found out when the new owner contacted me. The PSSM had been disclosed. She then sold him on and I was contacted by the next owner who didn’t know he had PSSM and didn’t know anything about it. And now here we are. I am genuinely upset by him ending up on DD. For anyone interested, he is px/px. A very sweet horse, great on the ground. Jumps extremely well on the lunge. Bad wood chewer or I would buy him back. FFS. This has done the reverse of making my day 
I just feel so bad for him. He is such a sweetheart. I dropped him off and it was such a perfect home.
I just feel so bad for him. He is such a sweetheart. I dropped him off and it was such a perfect home.
catembi
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He isn’t ISH either. He was sold to me as full TB. He was sold to me on a replacement passport and was younger than stated as teeth can be aged accurately at rising 4. He was definitely not rising 5, as per passport. Goodness knows what passport he’s on now. I feel so bad for him.
Roxylola
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Sorry catembi, I deliberately didn't tag you so you might not see it
They've got round the tb thing by saying "believed to be ISH"
Hope he gets a soft landing somewhere
They've got round the tb thing by saying "believed to be ISH"
Hope he gets a soft landing somewhere
IrishMilo
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OMG, not Leroy again! I sold him as a companion to a ‘lovely lady’ who said she wanted a youngster to grow old with. Forever home, knowledge owner. She promptly sold him on without telling me and I found out when the new owner contacted me. The PSSM had been disclosed. She then sold him on and I was contacted by the next owner who didn’t know he had PSSM and didn’t know anything about it. And now here we are. I am genuinely upset by him ending up on DD. For anyone interested, he is px/px. A very sweet horse, great on the ground. Jumps extremely well on the lunge. Bad wood chewer or I would buy him back. FFS. This has done the reverse of making my day
So is this the fourth home since you sold him? I really feel for you, it must break your heart. Especially at that price - it's not exactly the amount of money you could just chuck down the drain to get him back safely with you.
IrishMilo
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Oh, look at this sweet old girl: https://www.dragondriving.co.uk/horseforsale-224569.html
catembi
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I paid £2,450 for him and sold to the ‘retirement home’ for £450… I would buy him back, apart from the mega mega wood chewing. He was destroying my whole yard.
Pinkvboots
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People are just such shits you can't trust anyone these days.
Have you ever asked her why she sold him?
BackintheSaddle1983
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Interesting one...
Due to my unexpected ill health… I have a section a colt foal available for LOAN. A fantastic companion. He’s 9 months old so been weaned a while.. he is NOT to be cut. He doesn’t need to be. He’s already baby sat an orphan foal. He’s absolutely fantastic in all ways.
Please message me
Due to my unexpected ill health… I have a section a colt foal available for LOAN. A fantastic companion. He’s 9 months old so been weaned a while.. he is NOT to be cut. He doesn’t need to be. He’s already baby sat an orphan foal. He’s absolutely fantastic in all ways.
Please message me
Fransurrey
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I'm so sorry. I went through similar many years ago, selling a project to a 'forever home' cheaply. The awful family not only sent him to a dealer within the week, they also tried to get their money back from me - friends spotted him on the dealer website whilst I was arranging to refund them and collect him, as they claimed he was a bolter (he was a few things, but have never done anything like bolting)! Because the dealer had paid a great deal more for him AND was far away, it would have cost 10x what I sold him for to get him back. They sold his tack off separately. Never sold a horse since (this was 2002). People are such shits.
Pinkvboots
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Ceifer
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Pinkvboots
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I mean his still a foal himself you wait till he realises what his nuts are forI was just about to post this one
Miss_Millie
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This is a very sad sale.
Alaska is 20 years of age, Connemara
15hh , mare.
Colour: dun .
is retired and is only a companion horse.
She loves other horses and people. Good with children, dogs, farm machinery etc.
Being sold due to not having enough space as we have other horses too.
This girl has a very special place in our heart as have been there and done it all with her so home is more important than price.
Good with farrier & teeth.
Always breaks my heart seeing old retired horses being passed on
Alaska is 20 years of age, Connemara
15hh , mare.
Colour: dun .
is retired and is only a companion horse.
She loves other horses and people. Good with children, dogs, farm machinery etc.
Being sold due to not having enough space as we have other horses too.
This girl has a very special place in our heart as have been there and done it all with her so home is more important than price.
Good with farrier & teeth.
Always breaks my heart seeing old retired horses being passed on
Ceifer
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I always want to reply to these people saying they clearly don’t have a special place in your heart if you’re selling them.This is a very sad sale.
Alaska is 20 years of age, Connemara
15hh , mare.
Colour: dun .
is retired and is only a companion horse.
She loves other horses and people. Good with children, dogs, farm machinery etc.
Being sold due to not having enough space as we have other horses too.
This girl has a very special place in our heart as have been there and done it all with her so home is more important than price.
Good with farrier & teeth.
Always breaks my heart seeing old retired horses being passed on
Makes my blood boil especially if the horse has done so much for them.
Pinkvboots
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I agree I couldn't part with either of mine they are 19 and 20 now.
catembi
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After I found out that he was sold on for the first time, I contacted her to ask, 'How's Leroy?' And she said, 'Oh, he's doing really well'. And I said, 'Oh, that's funny because X told me that you sold him to her.'
Anyway, her story was that he was 'too good' to be retired and he was 'bored' so she sold him on to do a job.
I would like him back except for the wood chewing. Aarrgghh. And I don't really want five horses... And that's a lot of money for a field ornament...
Pinkvboots
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What a liar I mean she was aware he was sold as a non ridden horse, it was obviously for the money.
Roxylola
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Someone I know commenting on a sales post for a mare that was on our yard earlier this year - saying how fabulous she is... Yeah that's the same mare that had your child in hospital 
To be fair the person selling has been fairly straight about the horse's quirks but our mutual friend has me absolutely gobsmacked
To be fair the person selling has been fairly straight about the horse's quirks but our mutual friend has me absolutely gobsmacked
asmp
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Just seen an ad on a local site for a young Shire. The ad makes him sound very nice until the last line mentions that he has slight shivers. I might be wrong but isn’t shivers a degenerative illness with no cure? 
BackintheSaddle1983
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I know the cost of keep horses has gone up a lot over the years but there is an add on my local FB page for a fat, 4 years old, green 13.2hh cob for part loan. Ad states they live on fresh air and from the pictures I know what yard they are on. It is a very cheap and basic grass livery charging £30 a week, soil/sand schooling area and on a busy main road with about 20 minute hacking to get to any off road. They are wanting £250 a month for 2 days a week (3 for the right person!). Just wow.
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Roxylola
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It must be silly season - someone offering part loan 3 days a week...
Pony doesn't like to be ridden every day she likes a break in between
So as you're charging for a part loan are you going to not ride so your pony gets the break she likes? Or are you expecting them to pay, do all jobs for 3 days and only ride for 1 or 2!?
Pony doesn't like to be ridden every day she likes a break in between
So as you're charging for a part loan are you going to not ride so your pony gets the break she likes? Or are you expecting them to pay, do all jobs for 3 days and only ride for 1 or 2!?
Snowfilly
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My local RS is £40 a group lesson, £45 for a hack of 1.5 hours and £60 for a private 40 minute. So it still works out cheaper than riding twice a week at a school, and you could potentially get a lot more riding in, even though the hacking doesn’t sound great and the cob sounds like a project.
SaddlePsych'D
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I think to make a fairer comparison you would need to add the going rate of a lesson on the share horse twice a week. At the RS you are paying for the instructor's time and expertise, as well as time spent on the horse.
Eta - I get it's not about the lesson thing and if it's purely about getting time on a horse then the share comes out cheaper. I just think there's a point in there about what it is you're paying for in each setup because it's not the same thing.
SaddlePsych'D
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Blake McCusker "Horsemanship" keeps showing up uninvited on my FB feed. Just GTFO.