Finding 'the one'

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Hi,

I've been looking for a horse to buy (my first!) and have been to see a few but not sure what it is that's missing. :confused:

On paper, they are what I am looking for but so far, I haven't been tempted to go back and view again (but don't know why).

Do you just know when you find 'the one'?

Is it worth going back a second time if I'm not sure after the first?
 
There was quite a big post on this very subject last week, I will see if I can find it. BTW we have been looking for a while after loosing a very very special horse and are finding it quite hard. In the past most of our horses we have known were right before even sitting on them. This time round have seen two possibles, had one second ride that failed to impress, one that she wanted to second ride but sold the day after she saw it so didnt get a chance. On Sat saw one who was was very scrummy and had the wow factor to look at but was quite clearly in pain (had wolf teeth out a few weeks ago) so couldnt really asses.

Good luck - keep trying
 
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Had you seen many others before?

I'm hoping that I when I find the right one, I will know so I guess I will just have to keep looking!
 
i thought this post was going to be about blokes but it's the real partners in our lives :D :o the main things are important of course but i think it's the "little" things that decide for you - when we went to see Blue i can just remember this girl jumping all over him, sliding off his bum and going underneath him etc and he was standing there totally chilled and munching his hay - we knew we just had to have him!!
 
Magicmillbrook said:
Here it is

http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=516854
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I loved this thread. The second I saw my WB trot into the school I knew I was going to be taking her home (after a 5 stage vetting!). I'd seen a few before that ticked all the boxes but just weren't for me. Ironically she wasn't even the horse I was originally going to look at, but she was there on breaking livery and was the right size so her owners said I could try her just to see, even though she was much greener than I said I wanted. Two years on and she's the second great love of my life :D (the first one was a horse too ;) )

My TB arrived at my trainer's for schooling and I decided she was "my horse" from the first time I set eyes on her. Four months later she came home to live with my WB and I can't believe how lucky I was to find them both :)
 
kateo said:
Had you seen many others before?

I'm hoping that I when I find the right one, I will know so I guess I will just have to keep looking!
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She was the first horse i went to see I am lucky enough to ride lots of horses and see many of my friends horses all the time and thye didn't have the same appeal she had to me. She actually belonged to a friend but I had to have her and I wasn't actually looking for another horse at the time.:rolleyes:
 
Right or wrong, I fell in love with Kali when I saw his photo/ad in H&H . . . his was the first ad I responded to and his owner told me that he was sold subject to vetting. We went and tried about 8 or 9 other horses and, for one reason or another, none of them were "right" . . . either they were "broken" or they were boring, or they were too poor (one was a hatrack), or too big/green . . . and then I saw Kal advertised again. When we pulled into the yard and I saw that polarbear face (dark, dark eyes against a sweet white face) I just loved him . . . and when I saw Em gallop and jump him I knew we'd be buying him if he passed a 5-stage vetting (which he did).

He isn't exactly as described . . . he's rather more quirky than I would have liked and did need some serious flatwork schooling . . . but he's near enough and is definitely very, very sweet and real tryer once you get him on side. Despite our ups and downs, I wouldn't swap him for something utterly sane and sensible . . . his antics keep me amused (well, when I'm not shaking dirt out of my ears, LOL).

I can't tell you exactly what it was about him that I responded to . . . I certainly met (and rode) much better behaved horses, but none of them touched me like he did.

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When I was looking for my horse I looked at around 30, saw Jerrys ad in H&H and it didn't really jump out at me bit thought I'd call anyway - went to see him and knew straight away he was just perfect :) rode him, wanted him, vetted in the week and home by the next weekend and competing the weekend after lol we are on the same wavelength - knew it straight away. However I did try one lovely youngster 3 or 4 times, had a couple of lessons etc and the owner really wanted me to have her (was 6k though :O!) but I was only 13 at the time and the whole prospect of it was quite daunting - looking back I really wish I had taken the chance as she would have been horse of a lifetime (Welton Apollo lines ready to go BE at 6yo) but so is life I guess, follow your head and your heart!
 
You'll know when you've found the one. I liked the look of my boy then when I rode him we clicked knew straight away he was the one :) be patient he/she will turn up don't settle for second best the longer it takes the more appreciative you will be. It took 3 months to find my boy which I thought was pretty quick though I was looking at horses every weekend does get frustrating the longer it takes but it'll be worth it :) good luck hope you find him/her soon x
 
I knew b was the one immediatly when she was 2 and I 1st saw her looking at me over the gate 9 years ago. I recently worked on a yard and knew instantly that a horse there was 'mine' but he was unlikely to ever be sold. His owner recently contacted me to offer him to me. I am soo excited. When u know u just know.
 
You will know when its the one!!!!!

When i tried my boy the first 5 mins were an absolute disaster (due to my nerves as id waited 16yrs to own my own horse and finally trying one made me very nervous). But after that we were hacking and jumping a course of jumps in the school!

I knew he was the one when i didnt want to dismount and nearly had an accident on the way home in my car from the viewing due to me daydreaming (lol blonde moment!)

U will definatly know, dont force it tho because you'll end up with the wrong horse!
 
I waited a long time to find 'the one' - I'd seriously bonded with a horse years ago that I rode for someone else so knew what it might feel like...when I eventually met my boy, it really was love at first sight, despite the fact he wasn't really actually for sale..his owner came back to me 18mths later once he'd decided to sell as he knew how much I loved him. :D:D:D

My other boy I had heard a lot about prior to setting eyes on him - none of it good!!!! I had a nosey at him coming off the trailer and had a sneaking suspicion we could get on...despite his major bad press..I resisted having him for a good couple of months as I knew he would be a big project...but resigned myself to the inevitable...and now wouldn't part with him for the world, despite his work-in-progress 'quirks'!!!!

Our daughter's loan pony (soon to buy) had been looked after by us for a while as a terrible bolshy colt...he was sold on by his actual owner and when I was subsequently looking for a LR pony for my little girl, I came across a pony that was suspiciously like him for sale - couldn't really believe it could be him, looking like such a model citizen. Went to view and it really was him! So he came back to us..most odd. He's a superstar and a keeper.

I like the phrase 'What's meant for you won't pass you by' and this has certainly been the case with my horses!
 
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