dominobrown
Well-Known Member
...Sell are horse once it has be diagnosed with a career ending etc condition.
I recently had it happen to me, foolishly thought they were nice people, send me a horse to sell which turned out they had claimed loss of use on, complete wreck basically and could no longer be anything other than a light hack,, didn't tell me this, had to pass the horse on to a friend of afriend and have £900 in unpaid livery due to their lies etc.
But scrolling through horse ads today there is a hell of a lot of people disclosing (at least they are honest), sslling horses that have been diagnosed with navicular, arthritis and other conditions that are only going to get worse, or the horse being not quite right, lame at tike of sale etc. Yes they are cheap horses, and any mare depsite these possibly genetic issues and no breeding are all advertised as broodmares too.
Anyways, the reason I am looking for project ponies as my lovely event horse is lame, and has been to the vets and has to have 6 months off (side bone with a tiny chip, sound on left rein, sound in straight line, ever so slighlty lame on right). Now I could pop up a flashy advert of him going round a huge Novice B.E track and sell him for £1500 as a schoolmaster who is "not quite right, but might come right".
How can people do this?! I couldn't sell that horse that uas given me so much for love nor money, and he is currently out with the youngsters showing them the ropes.
Most of these horses only end up in one place... would you do it?
I recently had it happen to me, foolishly thought they were nice people, send me a horse to sell which turned out they had claimed loss of use on, complete wreck basically and could no longer be anything other than a light hack,, didn't tell me this, had to pass the horse on to a friend of afriend and have £900 in unpaid livery due to their lies etc.
But scrolling through horse ads today there is a hell of a lot of people disclosing (at least they are honest), sslling horses that have been diagnosed with navicular, arthritis and other conditions that are only going to get worse, or the horse being not quite right, lame at tike of sale etc. Yes they are cheap horses, and any mare depsite these possibly genetic issues and no breeding are all advertised as broodmares too.
Anyways, the reason I am looking for project ponies as my lovely event horse is lame, and has been to the vets and has to have 6 months off (side bone with a tiny chip, sound on left rein, sound in straight line, ever so slighlty lame on right). Now I could pop up a flashy advert of him going round a huge Novice B.E track and sell him for £1500 as a schoolmaster who is "not quite right, but might come right".
How can people do this?! I couldn't sell that horse that uas given me so much for love nor money, and he is currently out with the youngsters showing them the ropes.
Most of these horses only end up in one place... would you do it?