Dodgy Advert

[ajn1610]

An acquaintance of mine is advertising a horse for sale - don't want to give more details for obvious reasons, and EVERYTHING in the advert bar the colour and sex is at best inaccurate at worst a down right lie. I'm not too sure who this person thinks they are kidding, or do they imagine everyone is as thick as they are and won't notice the horse they've come to try is a full hand smaller than advertised and doesn't have a single attribute mentioned.
Some people beggar belief. I went to help a friend view horse the other day to find no one at the yard. Phoned seller who had been called away and told us to help ourselves to her horse and tack and do what we wanted. Absolutely crazy, can you imagine the damage we could have done?
What on earth are these people on??? So got me thinking what was the most out there thing you've ever experienced whilst selling or viewing horses?

 

[Pearlsasinger]

Well the first horse sis and I ever tried - the rider wasn't available to show it to us. His father was there - son had taken up football. I'm not surprised if our parents had been daft enough to buy that, sis and I would now be on a ladies football forum, I'm sure! The horse we bought had just been hosed down to remove the January mud.
Then there was the rising 4 yr old whose owner had just unfortunately had an op and couldn't use her right arm - so couldn't lead her or tack up.
Later there was an absolute saga, we travelled the length of the M62 corridor, to see one which was far smaller than advertised "But the farrier was on it last week". That farrier must be a dwarf - he was certainly smaller than the 6'2" chap the horse was for.
There was the nervy TB, advertised as suitable for a novice who had "never been turned out" but had recent wounds "caused by the others". The best we could think of the say about that was 'too forward going for us'.
When we bought the cob, she was owned by people who kept a restaurant. We were taken through the kitchen to the stables. There was a huge joint of beef waiting to be carved, with a number of horse-wormers sitting on the same table. (It was few years ago).
More recently there was the Appaloosa which "would stand next to a mounting block" for me to get on and off, whilst recovering from a broken ankle, whose owner hopped round the field with one foot in the stirrup, whilst saying, "I won't let her face the gate in case she runs off".
The one we bought on that round, was a very unusual viewing. The owner went to fetch a step and came back in floods of tears. She had just received a phone call to say that her FIL had died. We arranged with her friend to go back the next week.
The last horse we bought, the owner quite openly told us that she didn't like her.....goodness knows why, the mare is a sweetie.

 

[ISHmad]

Shame on that person, most especially if that horse has vices which may end up badly hurting someone. Don't know what they are lying about so may be making wildly inaccurate assumptions there, apologies if that is the case.

One of the worst was a "bombproof" horse who nearly dumped her owner on the road spooking at a normal sized van. Then span at some rockery stones in someones garden. Given this horse was advertised as a saint and was for a novice rider for whom it would have been her first horse that wasn't good.

You hear so many horror stories. I find it quite nerve wracking buying a horse but thankfully have been very lucky.