fattylumpkin
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I'd have thrown a blue fit at that Ticker! :O
Thankfully we used OH's farm vehicle truck so petrol costs wasn't an issue was a wasted journey though, poor OH had to deal with a miserable me all the way home.Should have sent him a bill for your time and fuel Ticker :-D
I'd have thrown a blue fit at that Ticker! :O
To be scrupulously fair, many horses which are routinely ridden by only one person can react very badly when a new rider gets on..........
To be scrupulously fair, many horses which are routinely ridden by only one person can react very badly when a new rider gets on..........
Agreed - but these horses should not be described as being totally safe for anyone, surely?
When my friend bought her TB, the seller, who had bred her, was honest. "She's bucked off everyone who's came to see her. If you can stay on, we'll knock something off the price" She did stay on, and she did buy the horse. She never bucked again.To be scrupulously fair, many horses which are routinely ridden by only one person can react very badly when a new rider gets on..........
When my friend bought her TB, the seller, who had bred her, was honest. "She's bucked off everyone who's came to see her. If you can stay on, we'll knock something off the price" She did stay on, and she did buy the horse. She never bucked again.
way to goWhen my friend bought her TB, the seller, who had bred her, was honest. "She's bucked off everyone who's came to see her. If you can stay on, we'll knock something off the price" She did stay on, and she did buy the horse. She never bucked again.
a girl from her old yard moved to my yard and told me that she was really bad to clip that she used to have to stand there with her arms wrapped around my mares legs whilst they clipped her!
When my friend bought her TB, the seller, who had bred her, was honest. "She's bucked off everyone who's came to see her. If you can stay on, we'll knock something off the price" She did stay on, and she did buy the horse. She never bucked again.
went to see a lovely Fjord gelding, turned up at house at time expected only to find owners still in the front room in their pyjamas, they answered the door and said 'Oh, hang on, just head around the back we'll meet you there.'
Then.....said Fjord, who was advertised as 14.2 but was more like 13h) came hobbling lame in from the field, when we questioned the lameness they said 'he's never been lame before, he must have stepped on a stone' Yeah right!
Seller still offered for us to ride the poor lame horse and sent his wife for the tack. Wife then came back and said 'sorry but the tack has gone mouldy' WTF!
Needless to say we didnt purchase the horse (sad thought as he was lovely)
3 hour drive to view a cracking schoolmistress ISH, had spoke to them over the phone the day before we set off to confirm details and off we went
arrived at dealers , presented with a 16yr old TB gelding, told him there must be a mistake and got told
" Oh we sold her last week, this ones cheaper though " ... erm no thank you ! disgruntled OH drove us both the 3 hour trip home again. I could have murdered the dealer.
I was looking for a sane allrounder/RC type and the dealer said they were a dressage yard so didn't do much jumping, but the horse would jump a cross-pole, was very calm, safe, non-spooky etc. As I drove into the yard the horse was spooking at something in the next field, spooked at the watertrough as they took him into the arena, spooked at just about everything around the arena. The dealer asked the rider if she could take the horse up into canter and the rider said "weeellll, I can try....." He lurched into the most unbalanced canter I've ever seen and promptly fell into trot again. They put some poles on the ground as a preparation for jumping and it was clear he'd never seen a pole in his life. He spooked at the wings as he went between them and the dealer said "I won't ask him to jump if you don't mind, but you can see how fast he's learning"! I declined to ride that one.
Another time a seller of a "diamond", safe horse rode the horse down the field and he reared - twice! She assured me the horse had never done that before and all the horses were unsettled because a foal had been born in the field the night before. The horse then did a very dirty stop at a jump which the owner assured me they used to jump regularly. Didn't ride that one either.
Loved reading the postings on this thread. Thanks everyone for your contirbutions anf keep them coming please.
Cowpony:- I was half paying attention when I started reading your thread and when I saw "allrounder/RC" for some reason I registered RC- Roman Catholic. The images that sprang to mind were pretty peculiar!
As for the excuse, "it's never happened before", that has happened to me. Someone came to try our honest to goodness gelding who would rather jump the wings than refuse and couldn't get him near a jump. Despite her protestations of having ridden for a top showjumping family, she patently could not ride. Told her she wasn't what we were looking for!