Horse Buying. Funny/Interesting experiences?

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Has anyone had any funny/interesting experiences when buying/trying a horse?
I had been looking for ages, I was really set on what I wanted. I was looking for a 15.3hh cob, 7ish years old, something that would give me confidence and I would be able to have fun with. Guess what I came back with. A barely 15hh french bred uber fine with practically no bone ex race horse 4 year old thoroughbred mare. (She is 15.2 now).
Everyone kept commenting on what a nice cob I had bought
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I'm just in a bit of a random mood and was curious as to what other people's experiences are
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I wanted a 15hh cob type ablout 8 years old. Came home with spotty. Bought him at 7 months, hes now standing at 15.3, two this june. Hes Appolossa (Stallion) by T/B / Sect D (Mare). Love him to bits best impulse buy ever
 
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Spotty is georgeous! That is one amazing impulse buy!
As for the 4 wheel drive that turned into a horse, I would go for the horse every time
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went to see guy bout horse tonight, wanting a 14.2-15.2hh gelding, he pulled out a stallion told me it was perfect all i had to do was chop his wotsits off and i had exactly what i asked for!?
 
A bit extreme of him! Although I do love the stallion at my work, just a big silly to handle, but he doesn't pull me, just jogs and sings. He is 21 and was a dressage stallion. Maybe it would have been the perfect horse for you without its balls
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I was looking for a 14 2 ten year old very sensible sane first horse for mum and daughter .I had a short loan with complete loony 16h tb ex racer and bought him.No regrets apart from his continuous injuries and my daughter has a lovely loan welsh cob.Poor hubby is now paying out for 2 horses I promised him only one and huge vets bills on my three legged tb.Whoops
 
Many years ago went to see a 14.2 potential JA, travelled miles. Got there and they brought a 12.2 ish out and swore blind he was 14.2.
When looking for the horse I have now, I wanted something about 8 yrs old, athletic looking and had to be 100% in traffic and had to pass the vet as my previous horse was bought with Ringbone. I bought a leggy, just backed rising 4 yr old, failed the vet and hadnt seen any traffic!. 5 yrs on, not an athletic bone in his body but I love him and his shire x peachy bum to bits.
 
we went to a sales in November to buy some new yard boots,and waterproof coats, guess what didnt get the boots or coats,bought a fantastic pony,and a puppy,is there any one else as mad?
 
Went to look at a bay 15.3 and came home with a chestnut 16.2!! I didnt do Chestnuts!!!!! I only did bays!!!


Now i would do either!!!!
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Went miles and got lost to boot to look at a ID/TB. When i eventually arrived i was told it was not ID/TB
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It was Hann/TB. NEVER GO TO DEVON TO BUY A HORSE!!!!!!!!!(Unless the person selling has moved there from the Home Counties!!!)

Also went to see one with a view to showing LOL!!!! Never seen something with so many lumps and bumps! Shame as it actually was a nice horse and moved well! Just had a about 10 splints and a huge hock and was only just a year old!
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Not me, but I heard a great story on the radio of a bloke who had lost his job and sold his car, so went out on a Saturday morning to buy a cheap 2nd hand runaround and came back with a vulture.

I just can't imagine being married to the man, but he set up a small business with this vulture taking it into schools and stuff and giving lectures, talks and demonstrations..........I suppose at some point he bought a car to get him around to all these things though.......?!
 
I wantd a 16hh heavy weight, maxi cob type as dont do TBs at all, I like horses to have thicker legs than me! Came back with TB type 15.1h.

Went to sales for a 'look' bought 17.2 crazy beast.

Just bought ex racer when i had 'given up'. Still like cobs, might actully ge to own one at some point! My horses seam to find me.
 
We had the time when took horse to instructors for lesson, and came home with second horse in trailer , that he just happened to have for sale !!
Have always wanted gypsy type coloured cob, complete with flowing locks,sensible about 10yrs etc, but have never managed it. The last time I was looking ended up with 4 yr old, bay, slightly nuts warmblood ??? Still have him though and it was his 8th birthday yesterday. Am hoping this will be the year he grows up.
 
I had a funny experience but slightly different from those so far.

I was looking for a bigger horse to take my daughter up a level in her jumping. Rang one local to me but nationally advertised and asked what it had been doing. I was told that it hadn't done much recently as no home rider but they'd had a local rider riding it and that it's results were available on a couple of websites where it had done well and in fact it had won it's last time out XC. They gave me the name of the horse, saying it had been entered under it's stable name, and the name of the rider so that I could check it's results. Trouble was the name of the horse and rider were those of my daughter and her current horse! I was so gobsmacked I put the phone down.

I still wonder if there's someone out there who bought the horse and whether it's lived up to our horse's results.
 
When my first pony was pts I decided it was time to move up to horses so went looking for a sane, 15hh, riding club all-rounder. I somehow ended up at a local dealers & fell in love with a ribby, TB type, 15.2, mare (bay in my siggy) who he told me was rising 5. When I got her home she turned out to be more like rising 4 & probably only recently backed. She also developed a fairly mean rear & spin tactic when asked to do flatwork, although she'd jump anything & was a speed demon. She was most certainly not the confidence giver I was looking for but she taught me to sit to anything & I never would of sold her-although I threatened to at least once a week.

When I went looking for my new boy I was determined to come back with what I wanted & in the end I did but it's amazing how different the advert can be to the real horse!
 
I was trying a grey mare that didn't quite match the advert. Far from hiding anything, the seller (a dealer) kept saying things and I'd ask if she was sure ... Eventually we realised she'd sold the horse I'd gone to see the previous week, so when turned up to see the grey mare she showed me this one
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It was quite nice but I didn't buy it.
 
I went to see a 11hh welsh pony. We traipsed across muddy fields to a closed metal shipping container. The guy opened it up (pitch black inside) and actually carried out, in his arms, a 36 inch skewbald shetland, aged about 4. We couldn't leave it there, didn't care if it had never been backed, just threw the money at him and my mum and I carried him between us across the fields, put him in the back of the car (yes we had a big car with a dog guard) and took him home. Probably the best first pony I've ever come across. A stroke of luck really.
 
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