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Froddy

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Hi I've been lurking on the forum and the site for a while and enjoy reading it. I decided it was about time I joined after doing a search about the Crack on/Bombproof/Lazyplods websites. My VERY novicey OH fell in love with a couple of the horses on Crack on and although I thought the animals on sale looked Ok and the website seemed genuine enough I vaguely remembered reading a while back about them being associated with Bombproof and voila a search on here confirmed my suspicions
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Anyway needless to say I've had to put him off the horses in question and I'm very grateful for the info I found out about them (I was considering making a trip to view which would have involved a 270 mile round trip
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so am extremely glad that my time and expense has been spared)

I've been away from the horsey world for a while now and it looks like there's a few new things knocking about and I've enjoyed reading peoples opinions about things old and new
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Looking forward to getting to know you all
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hi and welcome,

do not even get me started on bombproof i was one of the first people to report them i could rant on for hours against them but i actually went and tried the horses they had total waste of time biggest frauds i have ever met.
 
Hi and thanks for the welcomes
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so quick too
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Yep James not very impressed with the CO/BP/LP lot from what I've read about them and am very thankful to find so much info about them.

We are sort of looking for a horse flowerlady though not too desperately at the moment, I'm taking our time about it
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so I can make sure we find the right one which will suit us both. The OH rode as a child but sadly is a TOTAL novice so I have to bear in mind his lack of knowledge and experience when looking. He keeps picking out 2/3 year olds saying ohh that looks nice lol
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I'm forever telling him that a youngster is totally impractical for what we need but when do men ever listen
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A nice cob will do us to start with I think so I can at least get him started on the basics before being too adventurous. I'm just grateful he's interested TBH a lot of men woudn't bother but he's very keen to learn (I wonder if that will last when he has to learn how to muck out
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As for other animals we've got a mad GSD called Tasha and a moggie who goes by the name of Ollie, pretty tame for me actually as I've been known to have quite a mangerie in the past. My family think I'm quite mad because I'm potty about my animals but someone has to be don't they
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Certainly know where your coming from with take your time. It took my OH 23 years to get into riding when we moved and bought somewhere I could keep horse at home. He started mucking out etc for me then went and booked riding lessons (private) as he didn't want to ride with all the kids lol
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Then decided he wanted his own so I told him to go and do his stage one at one of the colleges thought it would give him a better insight into looking after and riding horses that weren't riding school orientated. He did that and went on to do stage two. So went and looked at a few neds. One we looked at said novice ride Sport horse 8yrs old. He insisted on looking at it lady said she'd overhorsed herself in height it was 16hh and she was only 5ft. Watched it being ridden in an indoor school by head girl (owner couldn't get)' I said don't get on it' He said ' don't show me up infront of people just pass my hat what can it do in here' Well it bolted round head girl tried to stop it! He did well to stay on as long as he did he borded it 3 times to try and jump off but it reared again and he fell flat on his back and hit his head (knocked out) I caught the horse said how can you call that a novice ride she said 'it's not it does x/c eventing an 3 day eventing (the owner had lied) Anyway rest of the day at the hospital xrays badly bruised back (he couldn't hardly walk) they wanted to keep him for most of the day because he'd been knocked out. So don't beleive anything they tell you, they are selling it for a reason not normally a good one.

We did after 2 years find a 16h.h Irish Draught he's had him 4 1/2 years and has had a go at jumping, dressage, Le trek (came 2nd) and working hunter. lol I've been riding 42 years and he's done more than me in having a go at different things. But after all that due to that fall osteopath has told him not to ride only in walk lol
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as he still has problems with his back (has to wear a support) when riding.

God sorry didn't mean it to be that long. Just be careful when looking.
 
No problem FL it's good to hear about other peoples experiences and success stories. Well done to your OH for staying on as long but ouch for his injuries. I put my daughter up on my ex racehorse who then proceeded to bolt (daft I know but she was begging to ride him, I should have known better) She did an excellent dismount that Frankie Dettori would have been proud of at speed too and thankfully came out of it without a scratch, luckily it was in an indoor school so he couldn't go far but suffice to say we didn't try that one again.

You sound like me lol, I've told the OH he'll have to do his stage 1 and stage 2 but he wants me to teach him
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mmmmm that should prove interesting
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It's a long time since I qualified as an instructor and looking at the BHS site the exams have changed since I did them but it will be a learning curve for us both I suppose.

As regards being careful, I wholeheartedly agree having seen some major mistakes by some people, I've been lucky in the past because I've only taken on horses known locally or by friends or aquaintances that I've asked to come with me for a second opinion.

If it was just for me I'd be slightly more adventurous but I'll stick to finding a nice safe cob for now however long it takes
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