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Firstly, this is not my situation, but one I am rather worried about.

Lady at our yard has a horse with degenerative bone disease, maintained by yearly injections, and bute on a bad day. Suitable for light hacking, and very light school work.

Horse now for sale due to unforseen circumstances. Horse brought by people 300 miles away who saw him on internet without veiwing him.

People sound absolutely lovely. 14 acres where he can live out, with 2 other semi retired elderly horses, til the end of their days. Sounds ideal so horse was sold. Alarm bells start to ring when they don't want tack.

Horse in question is a huge very friendly very flashy looking friesian(sp?!). If on bute, looks perfectly fine and sound, and moves very nicely and beautifully schooled./ He is 16 but doesn't even vaguely look it.

Concerned that people could bute him up and sell him on for a big profit and for much younger, as he is going for pennies due to his condition.

Of course they could be lovely, genuine people who want to give a horse a lovely end to life, but he is so sweet and owner thinks the absolute world of him but just needs him gone, hence she may not have thought this through. If anything happened it would break her heart, but she can't seem to hear the alarm bells. Do you think it will all be ok? Sorry for the essay, have a bottle of Rose and some biscuits.
 
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At 2 in the afternoon?
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I dont see there is alot you can do really is there?
 
no not really. except convince the owner to go and vet the yard but its a long way to go. much longer way to go for the horse tho... if you see what i mean.

And errr rose is good at any time
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Which part of the country is he going to?
Maybe somebody on here might know of the yard, not that I'm suggesting you name it, but you could ask for PM's if people live in the appropriate area.
Maybe a long shot and as Boss said, can you really do anything about it?
 
She's surely going to view the yard and vet the people she is selling the horse to, isn't she?
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And if she can't go, for some frickin bizarre reason, then surely she would ask for references from vets, farriers etc.

Has the money changed hands yet and is the horse at the new owners yard now? From what you say, it has, therefore there really is nothing that can be done now, but I just cannot fathom these people who profess undying love for their animals and yet send them off to god knows where for a few multi-coloured notes.

I'm a producer and even I vet every single home my horses are sold to - every last one! And if I am not happy then the horse simply does not go there.
 
Apologies in advance for being blunt. I think your concerns are absolutely correct.

People don't travel 300 miles to pick up a horse they want to pet and cuddle till the end of its days particularly going into winter going into a recession.

The owner wants the horse gone, she will cry buckets and blab that she will be heartbroken if anything happens to her precious horse which just pointless noise and achieves nothing.

Sorry to sound like a right cow but this makes me cross.
 
If this horse means so much to her, why does she need it gone? It is something I will never understand, why do people insist on selling on horses which are suffering from long term degenerative illnesses.
 
This sounds like a very similar scenario to what happened to another forum user's horse, Bailey. He went off to a seemingly idyllic home, lots of acres and a couple of other horses.......

He was sold on virtually the next day, even though he had a crumbling fetlock.

I would say there is a 99.9% chance that these people will do the same and would strongly advise your friend not to go ahead with the sale (I hope she hasn't done so already!)
 
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