Has anyone ever sold a horse and regretted it?

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Just wondered how many of you have sold a horse because you thought you weren't suited and regretted it?

Been having those kind of thoughts about Monty for a while now
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We seem to get so far then hit a brick wall but I guess thats horses for you
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Yes. And I am still gutted about it now.

I sold Troy who was a most beautiful beautiful darling - I could do anything with him, hack alone, load, take him anywhere. He was awesome at dressage and utterly gorgeous.

Unfortunately he got scared jumping any higher than 3' so I & my stupid ambition sold him on.
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He is in a lovely home though & I get letters and photos all the time from them.
Ironically the horse I bought after him was very talented but a total b!tch and a nightmare to do anything with. Karma.
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I would have Troy back like a shot now.
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Yes, I sold a pony to friends of a friend at much less than I was asking on the condition I should get first refusal should they decide to sell her.

They didn't and ended up selling her to the most god awful excuse of a riding school and in upsets me every time I see her in their fields/rides out
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Same people wanted to buy another of my horses. I'd rather shoot one then sell to them!!
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I used to have the most gorgous fell pony but when i got my mare, and then my two babies it was just all too much and i decided to sell him. I wish i hadnt now he was the sweetest little thing...i should have just put him out on loan as i doubt i would have had any problems...i miss him some days he was so kind and simple to ride unlike a rising 5yo and rising 6yo
 
Yes I sold my mare and have regretted it ever since. I can't find anyone who knows of her and I miss her so much it hurts. I don't love any of my current horses the same as I loved her and I wish I could go back in time and change the part of my life where I sold her.
 
Totally

I had a fabulous little Hanoverian gelding I bought from Germany as a 3yo. Sold him as I only keep mares, and he went to a perfect home. But I will never not regret it as he was super talented, kind, willing, just plain bloody perfect
 
No. I've only sold two horses but they weren't right for me so I sold them on. They both went to lovely homes and I don't regret it at all. The first horse I sold I had persevered with for three years. I liked him but I'd stopped having fun with him because he frightened me a few times. The second horse I sold was a big softie and he didn't do anything wrong at all but we just didn't click. I only had him a year before I sold him.

Horses are too expensive and life's too short to be investing all your time and money into a horse you don't get on with! Especially if you can give it the chance of going to a home where it will be better appreciated.

I now just have my little coloured horse who I'm breaking in at the moment. I can't ever imagine selling her as I've had her since she was only 7 months old and she's part of the family!
 
Yes, I sold my horse Taz in order to buy something to get my confidence back jumping. Taz was my baby, we just adored each other and he was such a sweetheart. I thought selling him was the right thing to do [and in many ways it was] because he wasn't going to do what I wanted jumping wise, and I wanted a horse I could just take out and have fun on, which I got.

Anyway, Taz who was perfectly sound and happy when I had him ended up going downhill very rapidly in his new home, was diagnosed with kissing spines and PTS only a few months after I sold him. I can't help feeling that selling him onto somebody new who was heavier than me and didn't know him as well probably aggravated the problem, and so with hindsight I would have kept him and tried to loan or ride something that I could jump. It makes me sad to this day, because I really loved him, he was a very special horse.
 
Yes, I sold my mare Suzie when I was splitting from my ex, was homeless and just didn't think I could hang onto her. I needn't have sold her (with hindsight) and I regret it every single day.
 
I share my current one, and am in the process selling my half to my sharers so they'll own him completely, and i'm getting a new one- and even though i know it's best for everyone involved, it is going to be horrible
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My regret goes back years. 18 years ago I sold my horse of a lifetime because new hubby didn't like horses.

With hindsight should never have married and kept the horse instead. Marriage ended 10 years later.

My horse had the most wonderful friendly nature and would do anything for me. We did dressage, hunted pony clubbed and she had the most fantastic jump.

The biggest regret of my horsey life. I'd never do that again
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I have my two up for sale at the moment due to my OH and I splitting up. The yearling I can cope with selling as I don't have such a good bond with her. My 4 yr old is my baby and I'm devastated at the prospect of her being sold. I'm also quite horrified at the prospect of sending our loan sec b back to her owner as I know she's just gonna be flung out in the field and abandoned again
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*sigh* I'm too soft for my own good.......
 
Like Kal40 my regret goes back alot of years, 22yrs to be exact
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Had this gorgeous pallomino gelding called Rondeview, fantastic jumper and all around live wire. Being only 12 at the time I was totally over horsed as he needed at least 20mins riding a day to remain sain and what with school and non-horsey parents this was impossible
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He was a total grumpy so and so - real face puller but I loved him and cried like a baby when he went
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Have tried in the past to find him (would be 30 now) as I feel as though I let him down, but to no avail
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Once, no and once temporarily regretted it. I do not wish to find out ever again.

I have no idea how I sold the first, although I knew where she was and that she was happy to the end of her days.

The second sale was traumatic but right for us both - or so I thought til the horse was sold on
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I now have two ponies which need to go out on loan and I am dreading even taking that step so much that I haven't done anything about it yet!
 
Yes i regret selling my youngster, he was going to a lovely home for life. But... turned out he has been to two dealers yards and sold at Henfield sales so far!!! I cant find him anywhere!! I even have adverts all over the internet looking for him, but he seems to have dissapeared
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Yup - similar story to another post - sold mare through friend of a friend to a forever home with first refusal should they sell - mare was sold 3 more times after this and still trying to track her down to find out whats happened to her would be 22 now and again better than a best friend - could turn her hoof to anything without complaint.
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No - the only time I ever sold one was when I went to uni. I had my second pony a fantastic 14.2 chestnut mare who was 16 at the time. She was such a fun pony - she always wanted to do everything and her motto was why walk when you can jog? . I had an agreement that if they wanted to sell I would have first refusal and luckily they kept to it. I bought her back for less than I sold her for and they even kept her for 9 months so I could have her! She was 19 by then but kept going til she was 29. At 23 she won the cup for the horse in the riding club with the most points and was still happily competing at everything - she won cups for jumping, dressage, x country, gymkhana games, handy pony family pony etc etc. She was amazing - only 14.2 and I am 5ft 10. I have kept all my horses til they died. My current one is a reincarnation of my 14.2 but 17h (and black but with chestnut mare attitude). She is now 18. However I am currently selling my daughters first pony (although haven't got my act together to advertise her yet) so I wonder if I'll regret that.
 
Yes, I bitterly regret selling my boy early March last year, OH gave me no choice. New owner promised me first refusal shoudle she (doubtfully) ever sell. I discovered he was for sale earlier this year. On discovering I knew she suddenly offered me 'first refusal'!! She is however asking a totally ridiculous price and I just can't - and won't - raise the money for him. So far, she has had little interest, so maybe she will drop to a sensible price. I live in hope.
 
Yep sold my boy last year he wasnt perfect and wasnt particularly suited to me but he was good at everything but had the worst feet Ive ever seen a horse have. Got another horse only shes a bit mad. Although he wasnt perfect and was prone to lameness I kind of wish I had him back. Silly I know.
 
When I left Cyprus I was unsure whether to sell my fabulous ex racer (horse in a million and that one horse you just click with) or bring him to Holland. Persuaded by a friend that to travel him for 10 days overland only to arrive in country where he would be 20 degrees colder and kept in the majority of the time was not right so I sold him with first refusal rights.

Found out last April that he had been sold on to a complete numpty as a first horse she had tied him to a steel door and he had taken fright pulled it off its hinges bolted with it and cut his legs to shreds....went to see him and offered to buy him back but she refused to sell. Have kept in touch by phone but have not been back to see him as it was distressing for him (and me) when I left he stood in his paddock and screamed his head off....I live in hope that one day she will decide to sell him and I will then buy him back and let him retire gracefully.
 
Yes two of mine,
Harley because when i bougt him he had been severly neglected and was a real stressy head case, i spent lots of time just gettin him to trust me and to chill out, never did a huge amount with him as he was to stressy to jump so i just had him as a happy hack thats was totally 100% bombproof on the roads, i sold him to buy buzz and a really lovely egyptian guy bought him to share with his daughter and he kept in monthly contact with me and ofetn asked me to go and ride him for them, he has since been sold on to someone that was not made aware of his history nd i have had no contact since,

And Tia She was my pony of a lifetime, taught me everything i know, i sold her when i turned 16 so I could but a horse to jump in seniors, she had a few nose bleeds before i sold her and as it was wround the time we clipped her we assuned she had inhaled hair nd that caused them, I later found out that she was passed to 4 homes in 6 months beause they couldn't handle her as she gone wild, the last home she was in had the vet out to her becuse they thught she was pregnant as she was a very good do-oer so was over weight, it turned out she was riddled with cancer, and had a tumor in her tummy the size of a football, and also a brain tumor so was put to sleep on the spot, I was heartbroken when i found out how much she had suffered in her last few months!!
 
Yes but happily bought her back a month ago - 7 years later.

I was given her as a yearling by a friend with a biggish stud as she had an eye infection which he couldn't clear. After some trouble, she was completely unhandled, and quite a lot of cursing the vet, managed to establish it was a blocked lacrimal duct and we sorted it. Friend wouldn't take her back - "You fixed her she's yours". But she was too small for daughter or self to ride - so we grew her on, had her broken and sold her. I hated to do so as she had become my little best mate - the one that got the extra pat, the hidden carrot, the hug when I needed cheering up.

Idiots bought her who though newly broken Section D's could be ridden by beginners. So she changed hands time and again. One day I saw her on the web advertised for loan - her then owner loved her but couldn't manage - so I took her on broodmare loan, indicating that if ever she wanted to sell I was keen to buy.

The credit crunch struck the owner, who genuinely did love her, so I got the cheque book out super quick. She is in the barn, fat, cheerful, cuddly and expecting her first foal. It may win the Royal Welsh or it may be a duffer - whatever it is I am more than rewarded to have my chum back yelling her head off as soon as I open the barn door each morning. I think she is saying "Good morning" but it may be "Oy more haylage, slave" but it makes me happy just to see her leaning over the door for a rub on the forehead.
 
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