Have you ever bought a horse that people have told you not to?

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Due to age/experience/injury?

Did it turn out good/bad?

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Yep, Ali, my pony club pony was poo poo'd by the vet at vetting on unsuitability for a child and conformation - 17years later he is still with me, the love of my life and the best thing I have ever bought!!
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I bought Solly when everyone told me not to , due to them hating me (pretty much)

Has turned out good , her injury is nothing to do with before we bought her , So no regrets

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We bought a horse that had been badly knocked about. We were told that she should have been put to sleep, was completely crazy and that she had bred a very poor quality foal. We bought her because we felt sorry for her and I had fallen in love with her! She was the most beautiful creature and once she learnt we were going to be nice to her, she was trusting and honest and would take me out hacking for hours with perfect manners. She eventually turned out to be a good eventer! Its a good job I don't have more money, I'd be buying anything like her - a kind eye and the ability to melt my heart!
 
I havn't but a 'friend' of mine decided to get back into riding and we all said to her, don't buy an ex racer as it will be too much for her, but as she is a stubborn little sh*te she did. The horse was mad, totally took the piss of her, reared, bucked etc. It was a good hack though but she kept it tied down with crap all the time, weird elastic bungie that went from the bit to the girth. Anyway she eventually sold it after it spending 6 weeks in a dealers yard at huge cost to some one who wanted to event it. Buy hey there you go!!!
 
Yes! It was some years ago.He had COPD called RAO now I think.It was called broken wind then.I had to learn to manage it as not so much was known then. I worshipped the ground he walked on.
 
Yep - my big mare that I bought from horseimports (yes, THAT dealer). she was a total state. She weaved manically and was so difficult to handle, and I watched them push her over a fence so hard (she didn't want to) that she actually fell over. She was totally NOT what I was looking for but I couldn't leave her there. (despite every bone in my body yelling 'run'!)

BUT she was well bred & actually talented at dressage. I have had great years riding her and some yummy foals. although we have had some difficult times I would NEVER be without her.

Here she is with her second foal - Mouse!
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Yep! 2years ago we bought a ex racer for my 15yr old daughter, had him on 2 week trial in which time he had her 'off' on many occasions! We were also told by others to send him back, due to his reputation that we found out after we agreed to the trial, but, after my daughter had a huge 'fight' with him an won she decided to keep him. 2years on and plenty of hard work he has done brilliantly, trusts and loves my daughter to bits and has done really well locally in dressage. Yes he still has his 'odd' moments lol but we love him so much. My daughter says he is her 'special one' that she will keep forever!! :-))
 
My story is slighty different. I bought my current horse from a very good friend and we discussed me buying him at great lengh. My friend bought him to event and she is sooooooo much better rider than me and just couldn't get on with him, to the point where he was boarding on dangerous.

I decided to take him on, and it has not been easy but it turns out that we are a good match. Most of the time
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going off subject a bit but were you able to do anything about the weaving - like stop it. My mare weaves when she gets excited like being got ready for a show or if something is going on over the field. It drives me mad but I am not aware if there is any cure for it.

PS I think your mare is lovely and her foal - well done.
 
trot345 - not wanting to hijack the post too much, but No, I have never actually stopped her weaving. She does it when she is unhappy or stressed so I try and make sure she is neither of those things most of the time. So I manage it. she's on box rest atm so she weaves a bit when the others go out
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Yes I have my current horse was apparently a danger to man and beast, apparently had put 6 people in hospital, got booted out of a riding school for serious bad behaviour and was sold as broodmare only (being PTS was contemplated) because of the danger she posed. I didn't know any of this until i'd had her about 3 weeks, BUT since i've had her myself and my 12 year old son ride her, jump her, xc her and she has never once attempted to buck, rear, tank off, or behave naughty in any way whatsoever, I love her to pieces and think personally she has just never been in the right hands - she has a sensitive personality and needs to be treated with kindness - with me she gets nothing but kindness and in return she repays us with being the perfect neddie.
 
i bought something that i felt sorry for once...totally against my principles...

it was a crock of shite and went to Potters.
 
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i bought something that i felt sorry for once...totally against my principles...

it was a crock of shite and went to Potters.

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Ah yes, i remember that thread
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Just about to. Although you guys on here have told me to go for it friends at the stable where I was loaning until recently told me to keep away, only because of age and the fact that she had uvetitus (not sure if thats how you spell it) several years ago that has left her partially sighted in one eye. I am having her vet checked tomorrow. I have already told the vet I know about her eye so don't try and put me off with that one. I'm just praying that nothing else comes up in the check because I know that I will go ahead and buy, heart ruling head I'm afraid.
 
Yes. Jack. Both my ex and MariusMum said I was mad to buy him. He was a bag of bones, hadn't been near a farrier for about 3 months and there was something 'odd' about his withers. But I insisted he looked like a nice horse and bought him. Unloaded him at the yard and everyone looked and said "what the fcuk have you bought".

He has turned out to be the best buy of my life. He is a gentleman, is steady, careful, looks after me and has more gears when you let him go than I can count
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I love him soo much
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Yes my farrier told me not to buy one of mine because of the state of his feet.
Took a massive massive risk buying him but it just felt right and that I couldn't not buy him.
He has gone from pulling a shoe off the first day and being lame in the field and pulling them off all the time and being footsore/lame very quickly and not being able to take him on hard ground without shoes. He has now being barefoot for around 10 weeks and hacked out without being footsore *touch wood*.
 
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