Experiences of viewing horses

[malibu211211]

Was just reading the Euphenisms of for sale ads for horses post in Soap box and just wondered if anyone had any odd/funny experiences when viewing potential horses?

Mine was more when I went to pick Monty up

Got there with friend and her trailer, handed over cash

and got Monty all ready to load. Had several attempts of loading him and he still wouldn't go in. So owner decided she'd have a go when he still refused to go she told us
'You'll have to excuse us for a moment as we need to have a little 1-2-1 chat and I do apoligise in advance if I have to use any bad language'
She started out by telling him where he was going and why (as though she was Dr Dolittle

) which eventually turned into her swearing and going at him

Monty still insisted on standing there with an even more stubborn look on his face

My friend then told her to hand him back, stop being so ridiculous (she doesn't mix words

) and then physically put both front feet on ramp, shook a bucket with some nuts in and off he went

My friend still brings up 'Monty's mad old owner' in conversation

 

[SOB]

LOL

When I picked up my lad his owner told me she had been teaching him rhyming slag and a cockney accent so he would be able to understand me.......I am from buckinghamshire! lol

 

[NeilM]

When we go our NF gelding in November, he was delivered by a friend and his owner. They got stuck in traffic on the M4 so by the time they arrived it was dark (and cold).

The owner was in a total flap and nearly fell over getting him out of the trailer, she flapped and dithered about the place, so H just started to take himself toward our field.

I went and introduced myself to him gently, expecting him to be a bit wound up and sweaty, not a bit of it, he was absolutely fine. It turned out that HE was the calm one. He's been that way ever since

 

[cellie]

Hope she doesnt read these forums LOL

 

[Sprout]

How much time have you got?!

There was the LR/FR 11.2hh which the owner rode, and when I asked to see it ridden by her children she said "Im not puting MY children on HIM!"

The supersafe family pony that exploded before I had even altered my stirrups - nice backwards flying dismount that would have won me an olympic medal.

The one where the owner turned up 1 1/2 hours late, said she couldnt be bothered to put a saddle on it, so rode it bareback and got bucked off within seconds.

The "treasured family pony now sadly outgrown", but they couldnt quite remember its name, and the fact that it was hopping lame seemed to have escaped their notice - that was a worth while 2 1/2 hour trip.

The one that was so headshy that she never even managed to get it tacked up and out of the stable.

Never a dull moment looking for the "perfect horse"!

 

[dawnpetenathshir]

I went to see one that was supposedly quiet enough for riding for the disabled. It had been kicked in the face so one side was mishapen and it was lame. I rode it up the lane but it was nervous. The owner said he just had a strange way of walking, so my friend rode him and trotted him up and she also said he was lame. Owner got snotty so we left.

 

[frb]

Was fibbed to quite badly regarding my horse, and by a 'friend'! not the 10 y o quiet horse i was sold. Much older and much fizzier, but i was naive first time buyer. I love my horse to pieces and he has taught me a lot. He also kicked the living daylights out of trailer the night i collected him, was stuck for four hours and had to be rescued by friends with lorry...Am very wary of who I trust these days...
Be careful all those looking as there are many lovely honest people but some not so honest with no guilt!

 

[jesterfaerie]

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The owner said he just had a strange way of walking, so my friend rode him and trotted him up and she also said he was lame.

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Poor pony, however the way you worded it kinda made it funny sorry.

 

[YorksG]

Where to start

The "16hh" cob, big enough for my then partner 6'2" and my sister, who was barely big enough for me at 5'6", but "they had had the farrier on it"! We found a beauty five miles from home 16:3 Shire/Clydesdale who had done it all and seen it all.

The quiet 16hh TB mare, who had so many lumps out we couldn't count them, she had been kicked by his other horses, but she only went out on her own? We didn't see him get on as he took round a corner, as the test pilot I decided against trying this one and told him we thought it was too forward going for us

The first horse we ever went to try, 15hh grey gelding, much nearer 16hh and the blokes 15 year old son had taken up football, I assume because the mad creature had taken off with him too many times, I didn't get on that one either, maily because it started spinning when I put my foot in the stirrup, and it refused to leave the yard for my sister.

The bombprood animal who took off down the road with the girl who showed it to us!

We have always managed to find the horse we wanted, but by you do have to look at a lot!

 

[Keltic]

I went to see a "beautiful homebred gelding" lovely nature and very quite etc etc.. hmmm should have realised when he ripped my waistcoat things were not that straight forward, talk about spoilt!! he had no manners at all when i rode him he had an amazing trot i thought wow!! and then landed on the sch head first!!

couldnt quite work out how i got there so hopped back on, thought well ready for you now, oops on my head again!!..... only then did they tell me he had to be luged 20mins before ridden and regularly bolted.... gee thanks but no thanks

 

[blossom01]

I went to see a mare, i went to pick its foot up and could, thought I'm not gonna let a stroppy mare get the better of me. after 5 mins pulling/ pushing and puffing owner said she could be stubbon and took over. well 10 mins later she finally picked its foot up and then it tried to lie down! ......i wondered why it wasn't shod, as i got into my car to drive away!

 

[PennyJ]

There was the NF Pony we drove to Somerset to see who had huge splints the size of golf balls in the middle of each cannonbone. My fault sort of, I should have asked specifically about clean legs, but they were so big, you'd have thought they might have mentioned it (certainly wasn't reflected in the price).

Another one, we knew he was green before we went to look, but he bucked off his owner, who promptly apologised for wasting our time which is fair enough I suppose. At least we hadn't driven hours to see him.

My biggest bugbear of all is the huge amount of people who are way off with the height they claim the animal is. One pony allegedly 14hh must have been 12.3 at a push. I started to take the measuring stick along with me I was getting so annoyed by this.

 

[Cahill]

we went to see a horse(with a nervous owner).
after she had spent far too long telling us how good it was in traffic,i asked her if it had jumped.
her reply.....``what,at the busses?``

lol