How honest are you when selling a horse?

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When asked if a horse bucked i said no, although 7 yrs before she had, once, does that make me a liar?

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I dont think that makes you a liar......

Its interesting you should say this though - as when I sold my gelding whom I had for 3 years i was asked - is he good to hack out alone and in company - I said yes! But didnt mention during the first few weeks I had him as a 4 year old he napped ...... I put this down to him trying me out and being a baby... however I worked with him and within a few weeks he was hacking out no problems and had done perfectly 3 x a week over the next 3 years.

Now when I sold him on to what I thought were an experienced adult, he began napping with them.... and the owner wasnt happy and tried legal proceedings against me!

Very scary! Hence now I dont sell horses..... i might forget to tell them that once they lost a shoe!

ETS That yes I am honest when selling a horse! But dont like selling due to a bad experience with a crazy buyer whom I thought was a genuine experienced rider and would get on really well with him!

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I think the best thing to do is to stress the positives about the horse that will appeal to the sort of rider that will either cope with its negative points

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Absolutely. Thumper has so much to recommend him, they far outweigh any negatives he may have - which are few and very far between.
 
As someone who was a buyer 2yrs ago. I was looking for an eventer, I had a good wad of money in my back pocket and i was looking for a young horse to go through the levels with.
I called up a man about a horse and he asked about my experience, which is over 10yrs of jumping and 2yrs eventing, i have constant dressage and sj lessons every week and he told me the horse was too good for me. I was gutted, it was a 4yr old unproven eventer and i was being turned down on what i sounded like, the least i think sellers can do is give a buyer a ride of the horse.
Because the next dealer i came to watched me ride obviously to make sure i could!!! Then he let me ride some others i was interested in, thats how i found my girl!!
Although I'm still gutted that i wasn't allowed to ride that other horse!!!
 
We have done that lots of times. We have a cob type for sale who is not a novice ride. We must of told 5-6 people that he didn't sound right for them as they needed a safe plod for a nervous or novice rider. Hopefully cobby will be vetted and go to his new home next week.
 
Every horse I have bought from a private sellar has been 100% honest with me, although I did meet a few dodgy characters while I was looking!
 
Yep I am 100% honest. Just wish the buyers are always as honest
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I have only sold the one in recent years and was very upfront about her - although I don't think there were that many negatives and she could safely have gone to any competent rider. Of course it was important to me to be sure that the buyer could cope and would be happy, but I am well aware that people and horses can grow into each other as long as they have the right personalities and match each other.

I know that I sold my horse to a good long term home and am still on hand to give advice as required.
 
It is her age probably putting people off. She is 18 (although acts 8 and never had 1 days illness, lameness in the last 5 years).
 
I don't think you can ever be too honest, if your honest, you can get any more honest (if that makes any sense).

Its important that the horse is matched up with the right person, not just their riding abilities but character wise too, this often over looked.

A 'wrong un' in good hands will always excel at a disipline far much better than a good un in good hands once you have found something that the horse is naturally good at and enjoys, so honesty does pay.

Sellers have a responsibility in my eyes, otherwise your playing with peoples lives and safety of them and the horse.
 
Thank you
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Had trouble re-sizing it though as it was too big before, not sure if photobucket plays up sometimes or just has a delayed reaction as I tried to re-size it at the weekend and pasted the code across etc and it was still too big, so made it smaller again and still viewed too big and had not altered at all, so gave up, then this morning when I logged in the picture had shrunk to a tiny postage stamp size!

Tried to do siggy for someone else and it keeps coming up tiny when using the same size photo re-sizing in paint on Windows as when I make mine or anyone elses, so The Farrier on HHO still has not got his siggy set up yet.

Anyway sorted it this morning with mine, very strange though, maybe it just me it plays tricks on.
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