ENTIRE TACK ROOM EMPTIED IN CHESHIRE

[RedVendetta]

In broad daylight on Saturday 7th June, an entire tack room was emptied at a livery yard in Woodford near Cheshire.
Please be vigilent and LOCK your tack rooms, about 15 saddles were stolen, none of them will be able to claim on insurance as the tack room was left unlocked. Obviously no one thought that anyone would have the audacity to steal during the day... but they did!
These thieves must have been watching the coming and going on the yard in order to get away with this, so look out for suspicious characters, or even better, take tack home!

 

[Maesfen]

Well it's Beeston on Wednesday, might be worth a look there and on ebay soon. Was any of it marked do you know as I might be going, I need more headcollars?

 

[RedVendetta]

We think it was stolen for Beeston.
Dont think any of it was marked and none of it was mine so not sure. I will get some descriptions, thanks

 

[Toast]

Our tack was stolen not long ago. saddles and bridles of over sixty horses. All of it gone

It was in those big storage containers that were locked massive locks and they still managed to break into them with crow bars!
So i reckon it'd be safer to take tack home if it was possible!!!
x

 

[emma69]

Postcoding your tack is a deterrant, if you mark it under the saddle flap no one will ever see it when you are riding etc, but it makes it very very hard to re-sell, and is easily spotted at sales.

 

[mattilda]

We had our tack room stripped some time ago (years) and it was one of several in the area. The police told us the theives take it down south to sell on then nick tack in the south and bring it up. Our tack room is now like Fort Knox and we have CCTV. I was only grateful they didn't touch my horses.

 

[henryhorn]

It won't surface in the sale though, have as many people as you can find wander casually round the boxes, that'll be where it changes hands. The best time is early or very late, deals are done either as a bargain first thing, or in desperation before they go home...

 

[RedVendetta]

I just hope they dont come back for any horses. Selfishly enough I think my horse is safe as he's stabled right at the back of the yard and I dont think they will dare go there.

 

[hairycob]

Just remember that tack & rugs are much, much, much more likely to be stolen than horses. I know loads of people that have had tack nicked. I know of several yards that have been broken into several times. I do not know of single person whose horse has been stolen or even aperson who know someone whose horse has been stolen. When you get new stuff take it home as they may well come back in a few weeks to get the replacements. Stolen horses have to be looked after & are harder to move on - tack can just be put in storage & sold on easily.
The tip we were given at a recent horsewatch meeting was mark everything even buckets. If someone is taking a reccie & they see the cheap stuff is marked they are less likely to bother as they will assume the expensive stuff is marked. Thieves do not want to pick up marked stuff as it links them to the crime. Unmarked stuff is virtually impossible to link back. Even if it's recovered if you can't prove it's yours it will get destroyed.
I have always marked my rugs with black permanent marker but we were told make the markings instantly visible - better that your stuff is never nicked than nicked & recovered. Hence I spent Sunday morning with a can of flourescent yellow spray paint & a homemade stencil marking rugs. (Tip: wear rubber gloves I spent Sunday afternoon scrubbing it off my nails!)