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metalmare

metalmare

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Are sometimes strange choices if you want to sell a horse...

Think I would have left the middle picture out - or is that just dishonest?
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http://www.horsemart.co.uk/AdvertRef/HM7...HorseDetail.asp
 
Defo, I quite often have a good laugh looking through the for sale ads in H&H, makes you wonder if the sellers have even looked at their pics sometimes
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I dont see anything wrong with the middle photo to be honest.
Not the ideal way of going, but the rider is far to big, unbalanced, and a cack handed sack of spuds, to be fair.
Surely when you look at horses you look at what they could be, rather than what they are? You can always get a beter picture of this with a bad rider on.
What does annoy me is the lack of a conformation shot - it amazes me the amount of people who think this doesnt matter when selling a horse.
 
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Being very light handed I would be paranoid about buying a horse that had been ridden by someone with rough hands.


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I dont understand the point. I also have very light hands, it takes me 3 days tops to settle a horse used to boggy ones.
Surely its far worse the other way round?
 
I've ridden horses whose mouths and way of going have been runied permanently and I would be looking for damaging riding in pictures. Probably someone experienced could sort these problems but as a fairly inexperienced amateur rider looking for a happy hack / all rounder I would be after a blank slate.
 
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I would have said it was underpriced slightly, but obviously it varies from region to region anyway.

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Yup, looked like a bargain to me.
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I'm told that horses at Beeston Sales are making RIDICULOUS amounts of money at the moment, and most of them are untried until you get them home...
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I used to go to the auction a lot but the one near me (Derby) is depressing. Some of the horses there just needed going to the knackers. Horses with COPD and cushings that novices were trying out and paying out money for without knowing...
 
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Surely when you look at horses you look at what they could be, rather than what they are?

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Thats the way I always look at horses, not many people do though.
 
The chestnut? What do you think to him? His neck looks very upright but I don't think that would matter for what I want to do.
 
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Have to say I TOTALLY disagree with the tot on the big horse piccies - what a ridiculous thing to do!

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That is often a ploy dealers use to sell a horse. Stick a toddler on it's back and everybody will think it's a really sweet gentle horse. Works too with some people.
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Off topic, but my friend used to work for a dealer when he was in his early teens, and the dealer would sell his horses pretending that they belonged to 'A'.
A was instructed to cry and cuddle the horse, so the buyers would think it was a much loved family pet.
And it worked!
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When I next buy I will have a lot on my hands so I'll be looking for a ready made horse with an undamaged mouth. Plus I'm not very experienced so i don't want to inherit problems. I've done that before - too much energy and emotion for me
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If I ever buy from a dealer I will do my homewrok and find out about their reputation I think! I'm sure most of them are lovely!
 
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Surely when you look at horses you look at what they could be, rather than what they are?

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Thats the way I always look at horses, not many people do though.

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Perhaps its just an indictaion of how skint we both are?
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