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AshleighEmma

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I am going to look at a 13.2 7 year old welshie X tomorrow morning as a bit of a project. He's part broken but would need restarting - which is the first alarm due to his age.
I have a minimal budget as my mares death money was eaten by vets bills - sigh.

Any advice with what to look out for? My main thing is temperament and movement I think? I'll pick his feet up and look for obvious problems/scars/lumps. I'll try lean on him and I said i'd like to lunge him as I wouldn't want to just jump straight on as that'll more than likely go badly which isn't a fair representation.

Any thing else I should look out for? any advise at all would be greatly appreciated
 
Probably not quite what you are after but I find it very useful....remember the ABC

Assume Nothing
Believe Nobody
Check everything

Good Luck
 
I always google the phone number and owners name... it is amazing some of the things which people post about their horses on fb and then forget to mention at a viewing...

I would ask to see him walk and trot up. As you said check his legs etc, see him on the lunge and if possible lean over. Passport, history, vices.
 
You need to make sure he is long enough to get between the two points you need, with a suitable girth to carry the volume you need carried. Yellow or green are the two most common colours, but you can also get blue in thicker types.

Sorry, saw your title and couldn't help it :D


Good luck with your search.




PS, if he has had full tack on, have him tacked up, preferably loose in a stable without being tied up, and watch his face and any movement he makes to avoid the saddle. This can tell you a lot in a project horse. I has one once who actually groaned when he saw the saddle. It went back in the tack room for a month while I got him strong enough to carry it!
 
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never ride a strange horse without seeing it ridden by someone else first, this is my non negotiable 100 per cent rule
 
To be honest I wouldn't be the one leaning on him and doing all those things. Ask his owners to show you where he's at and let them do all of that so you can stand back and view it all from a safe distance. If nothing else being further away means you can see whether the owner is tense and expecting to be punted 20ft at any given moment or if the horse is clearly not used to it and not happy with it either and (I think anyway) you are in the best spot to see things as they actually are and not from the sales pitch and spiel.
 
I once went to see a horse advertised for sale and from the ad you'd think he was a magical unicorn that poo'd little rays of sunshine and when we arrived and I saw her struggling to get him out of the stable and clearly nervous of his every move.

Second he was out of that door the sod was kicking and biting and giving it what for and she was terrified.
Thing is if she'd been honest and said "He's a right shitbag and murder to handle so just be aware he doesn't come ready to tack up and take out" I might have thought differently but blatant lies and utter crap = NOPE
 
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