If someone rode your horse without....

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By Full Livery, do you mean real Full Livery? As in your horse is exercised for you as part of the service?

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Good point tia!!!Wasnt thinking of that!!
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However full livery round here is what i used to class as part livery,they class ridden as hunter livery??I know bizarre really,must be getting old,lol!!
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Tell them calmly but firmly that taking without consent is a crime, be it a car or a horse, and if they do it again, you will call the police.
 
I would be VERY upset! But I KNOW it has happened to mine! He went to riding school for a lesson with old old sharer - we went to watch them nest week and overheard the KIDS saying how they had ridden him last week!! This was as he was taking a full on prat fest in the school - I dread to think what would have been in store for me had he done that with a child on his back!

Also know new sharer has let her mate on him - she was told NOT to let ANYONE ride him without checking with me 1st - which she didn't, but at least this was an adult and a more than capable one!
 
I took my tack home and someone still rode my pony. I was furious and wrote a letter to the yard owner stating that if it happened again I would call the police for theft, also that my insurance would not have covered the person riding or the pony and the tack used did not fit. My YO was not aware it had happened until that point and I am told several harsh words were metered out to the person concerned. It has never happened again. The daft thing is had they asked to borrow him I would happily have allowed them to and would have brought the tack up for them. I think this probably happens more than people realise.
 
Just to clarify to your post, and that by madmav. Riding your horse without permission is not a criminal offence of theft - how can it be, there is no intent to permanently deprive you of the item (the horse in this case)? You can only take a conveyance without consent as an alternative to theft.

Now if somebody took your horse on an endurance ride and returned it, you might potentially have a technical offence of theft of horse shoe metal........
 
I'm not sure anyone at my yard would be stupid enough to get on Osc. They wouldn't dare anyway but also he is on YO's block which is practically in her garden and no one is allowed round there. At this very moment someone is riding him for me but that was arranged and I inform YO about any changes to his normal routine.
People have however done it to my pony before, at the time I was young and a huge girl was on her booting her in the ribs when she was forwards going anyway. I was mortified when I got there and saw and just went into meltdown. I didn't trust myself to be polite enough so called dad and he came down and sorted it out. He wasn't polite, but equally he was older than the people using her!
Ever since then everything that happens with either of them goes through YO, that way it can't happen.
But to answer OP, I'd be fuming and said person would be told in no uncertain terms exactly what I thought of them.
 
I understand, ok I wrote that badly. My point to the YO was that if it happened again and I came to the yard to find my horse without knowing where he was or any knowledge that someone had taken him out, I would have called the police to report my horse missing from the field.
 
This has happened to me, twice. First time with Blue i turned up unexpectedly and found him being used in a lesson.
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I was NOT happy and it never happened again.

Second time, got the found one of the liveries using Holly when they have 2 perfectly capable horses of their own. Again not impressed.
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i'd probably flip out !! or say "oh thats why he/she hasnt been right for aweek what did you do to him/her?!" !!!!

and i'd make a SWIFT complaint to the YM or YO whoever is in charge of your livery yard. they shouldnt be letting any tom dick or harry ride horses on the yard and they should also have a word with the person concerned!!

what a cow!

you shouldnt have to take your tack home etc that is ridiculous !! what a liberty. you could chain your saddle to your saddle rack as some people do for safety from thieves.
 
I'd be absolutely furious! It has happened to me twice, first time one of the kids that thought it would be fun to ride my slightly difficult mare was injured, the second time the girls mum who was too heavy took her out hacking, raced her around a field, and brought her back with a back injury. I only found out when I went to get on the next day and she reared and the woman piped up 'she's so naughty, she was bucking and so strong when I took her out for a gallop yesterday!' I went LIVID!
 
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By Full Livery, do you mean real Full Livery? As in your horse is exercised for you as part of the service?

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Yes, 3 times a week, I ride weekends.
 
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I have to say, I'm the same BB. There are a few people who board their horses here and they sometimes take out some of my horses if they want to ride together with other members of their family. They know which ones they are allowed to ride and they wouldn't ever take any of my personal horses, however I am the yard owner here so wouldn't expect them to.

The reason I ask if her horse is on proper Full Livery is that if I had a horse on full livery then of course I would be used to other people riding it without my express consent as the riding would be part of the service.

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The full livery agreement that I'm on says that only the YO's groom would ride the horse - not any liveries, unless they had my permission.
 
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If they're on full livery - are they not ridden? Have you said who you want riding the horse? Id speak to the YO about it.

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Yes, an it's absolutely only the groom!!
 
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