Quarrystone Stables near Kingsbridge in Devon

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After my post, I have received lots of pm's about Quarrystones and it sounds dreadful!! Someone said that they are now trading as 'P & B Stud' in the same area so watch out!!!
 

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There are a lot of rumours about this place - all bad. However, if you know what you are looking at I also know of a couple of people who have had cracking types from there and apparently he will take the horse back if you are not happy, though no doubt it will be on an exchange basis. Basically go there with your eyes wide open and get it vetted.
 

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I got mine 5 stage vetted but when he was fat enough to come back into work (he was malnourished) he was mechanically lame... I don't know if they'd gone so far as to bute him for the vetting, but you never know...
 

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They should take bloods at 5 stage vetting though so if there is any suspicion they can be tested for things like bute/steriods etc. I know as I had to have some checked recently and it cost me £200
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by the way, I love the look of Oscar - I once tried to buy a Knabstrup horse (unfortunately failed the vet) but he had a lovely look about him.
 

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"They should take bloods at 5 stage vetting though so if there is any suspicion they can be tested for things like bute/steriods etc. I know as I had to have some checked recently and it cost me £200"

We did have bloods taken, but he was in such a state that we couldn't ride him for two months (even the saddler refused to fit him) and his lameness only because apparent once under saddle, and by this time the tests had been disposed of
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Yep, Ozzie is the horse i got from this guy. Apparently (according to a lad who showed us around, I think worked there) he was driven in from europe for cheap, using the eurotunnel.. Who knows.
 

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P & B Stud sell or attempt to sell, a load of crap regularly on the SW Sales circuit..they are regularly seen at Sedgemoor, which was Taunton, Exeter, Reading...

they have a "Tardis" of a wagon which holds around 15 horses!!

they trawl the same animals from sale to sale for about a month..then they dissapear!!!.......few are sold...but many are "imports"..well WB's, WB x's Ex Racers...

TBH they actually look rough, so why anyone would buy what they bring along is beyond me..

i remember about 18 months ago, they had 3 Appy's and 2 Haflingers that went round and round for months...all 5 were dreadful, not a decent leg between them and very unlevel...

then they too dissapeared
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I saw that lorry! Like I said, they buy them cheap at european markets, according to loads of different people
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Yes, they took my app to Reading market just before I went to see him (this was about march time last year - they didn't tell me they were hoping for his meat price, but I'm not as stupid as I look) and he wasn't sold. I wonder if he was the one you saw? There was another, a mare I think, a sort of peachy colour with white spots..

I should show you a photo of his legs.. They look like something out of a vet journal! He's got a big knee, a capped hock, wind galls, and about 5 assorted splints and spavins, not to mention terrible mud fever. He's actually sound on his legs, which is suprising, but has a damaged hip. He's sound enough for hacking, and has actually improved a lot. We've started jumping little x-poles! (it was ok-ed by vet, back lady and instructor)
 

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I have got 2 horses that i bought from them.Both were exactly as described.One of them i have had for 11 years and she is the best horse i have ever had.My horse of alife time!!!
 

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Wonder if these so called imports from "europen markets" are actually just from the knackerman?

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I would think almost certainly.
 

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Have been there and it just made me want to die.Most of the mares run with their gypsy cob stallion and come out of there in foal. The horses they ship in off the continent are all just thrown in one big barn together. The unlucky ones who are sold to them from local owners looking to get rid are just chucked out in their top fields. They will run you up there, or you can walk, and you just take your pick from a whole host of problem horses.
There is the occasional good 'un... but you need to know what you;re looking for and be DEAD certain. I had a 'friend' who used to buy from them to sell on. She begged me to sit on two of them. One was a bolshy haflinger gelding with a nice line in power bucking and jumping over car bonnets. The other was a tbx mare with the worst confirmation I have ever seen, who was the most dangerous horse on a road I have ever met . I watched her nearly kill her rider on the main road.

Bad, bad people.
 

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Wonder if these so called imports from "europen markets" are actually just from the knackerman?

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most definitely from the dutch and belgian meat markets..
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I couldn't get Jaylen's link to work so here it is again. I think it important that people who have had problems do read the article AND TAKE THE ACTION RECOMMENDED IN IT.



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this person... http://www.horsemart.co.uk/AdvertRef/HM8...HorseDetail.asp

is also connected to them. she uses various names, her ads can normally be sussed out by the capsl. in any doubt shes a coloured girl with a partner called gavin, steer very clear.

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god, who'd want to buy that???
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sorry.................. but someone's got their 'Rose Tinted Glasses' on!!!!!!!!!!!!

i just think poor horse and what SH!Ts, for selling in that condition -well that's my opinion
 
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