EquestrianFairy
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Ok so there is Person A: This person is buying a new pony for her 12yo son, knows nothing about horses and we are mutual aquaintences known through a friend.
There is Person B: The Yard Owner who is a nice enough lady but a tad greedy, i get confused on exactly how much she knows about horses herself, but she has a full time groom and 3 children who have ridden all there lives and are very experienced. They have aLOT of horses, ALOT of money and generally are a nice lot, we've had one run in when a livery refused to pay his bill and she threatened to thow us all off but it was sorted- although i am on eggshells incase she does it again and goes through with it.
I show this lady my yard, she likes it and is thinking of buying a pony from a riding school- after a few weeks it seems said ponys price isnt reducing so after her son having a little ride on my horse i said id send her some Horsemart ads to give her an idea of what she should be buying.
She finds an ad and asks if id go with her, her son rides the pony and loves it, even i quite like it. Its a 14hh ex riding school pony and son gallops it over the mountains happily, also hacking up the road with it.
Person A then rings Person B and tells her about pony, Person B then suggests the pony is wayyy to big for her son and it will kill his confidence but she has the perfect pony shes looking to loan... a 12.2hh competion pony.
I tell person A that this is too small and i get the remark that she trusts Person B (after meeting her once!!) because person B has ponies at the local riding school (which i had already told her about!) So after feeling very upset over having my advice thrown in my face i deicde not to help again.
Over next week, son tries 12.2hh pony and (suprise suprise) its too small so Person A buys the original 14hh pony.
14hh pony arrives sunday and obv is finding life tough as shes trying to be accpeted into a very settled herd...
I suggested leaving her be for a week or so, just letting her son spend time with it, groom it etc then look into riding (or i will ride it) next week.
Person A ignores me and her son rides it tonight in the school, it rears (Im thinking more bunny hop than actual virtical rear) and tries to nap back to the field so i get a text from Person A on this issue and shes clearly stressed etc.
She had some stranger from the adjoining yard help her and her son tack up also.
There was also the issue with its tack not fitting as she;d bought new tack- i suggested she take the old tack (which fitted as i tacked it up when it was trialed) and use it as a guide- obv she must not of done this if its not fitting?
I dont know what to do, shes not listening to me yet shes asking my advice and im not the sort of person who will just say 'sorry i cant help you'
I have had a few instances, actually a sh1t load of instances where people have just taken advantage of me and its starting to get me down
There is Person B: The Yard Owner who is a nice enough lady but a tad greedy, i get confused on exactly how much she knows about horses herself, but she has a full time groom and 3 children who have ridden all there lives and are very experienced. They have aLOT of horses, ALOT of money and generally are a nice lot, we've had one run in when a livery refused to pay his bill and she threatened to thow us all off but it was sorted- although i am on eggshells incase she does it again and goes through with it.
I show this lady my yard, she likes it and is thinking of buying a pony from a riding school- after a few weeks it seems said ponys price isnt reducing so after her son having a little ride on my horse i said id send her some Horsemart ads to give her an idea of what she should be buying.
She finds an ad and asks if id go with her, her son rides the pony and loves it, even i quite like it. Its a 14hh ex riding school pony and son gallops it over the mountains happily, also hacking up the road with it.
Person A then rings Person B and tells her about pony, Person B then suggests the pony is wayyy to big for her son and it will kill his confidence but she has the perfect pony shes looking to loan... a 12.2hh competion pony.
I tell person A that this is too small and i get the remark that she trusts Person B (after meeting her once!!) because person B has ponies at the local riding school (which i had already told her about!) So after feeling very upset over having my advice thrown in my face i deicde not to help again.
Over next week, son tries 12.2hh pony and (suprise suprise) its too small so Person A buys the original 14hh pony.
14hh pony arrives sunday and obv is finding life tough as shes trying to be accpeted into a very settled herd...
I suggested leaving her be for a week or so, just letting her son spend time with it, groom it etc then look into riding (or i will ride it) next week.
Person A ignores me and her son rides it tonight in the school, it rears (Im thinking more bunny hop than actual virtical rear) and tries to nap back to the field so i get a text from Person A on this issue and shes clearly stressed etc.
She had some stranger from the adjoining yard help her and her son tack up also.
There was also the issue with its tack not fitting as she;d bought new tack- i suggested she take the old tack (which fitted as i tacked it up when it was trialed) and use it as a guide- obv she must not of done this if its not fitting?
I dont know what to do, shes not listening to me yet shes asking my advice and im not the sort of person who will just say 'sorry i cant help you'
I have had a few instances, actually a sh1t load of instances where people have just taken advantage of me and its starting to get me down