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I'm wanting to trace a horse that was sold to someone in Scotland earlier this year. Can you please tell me which are the most popular horsey Facebook groups for Scotland? I'm sure someone must know him and Facebook seems like the way to go.

I'm so annoyed with myself as I meant to get their contact details and didn't and I cannot for the life of me remember where abouts in Scotland they lived.
 
Well, I'm a member of:

Horse stuff for sale and chat Falkirk
Mad about horses Fife
Equibay fife
Horsebay
Horsey Stuff Stirlingshre and Lothians
Horsythings for sale and wanted Kinrosshire
I have no clue if they are popular!
 
blackbess said:
You could try "Horsey Stuff For Sale In Scotland". They have over 10,700 likes, it might be a good place to start? Good luck!
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Most of the people I know left that group - it really peed everyone off up here as was a very mainly Central Belt group. Fair enough place to start, but I'd try and find a decent Borders, Central Belt, Fife/Angus/Perthsire and an Aberdeen and north group - they are better represented.

And just realised my first post looked really snarky. Apologies - I went to uni in southern England and got so sick of people asking in all serious if I had met their friend who went to Scotland once.
 
No worries I know it's massive I just have no idea where abouts they are so want to post on all the different areas popular groups. I think they must be at least central as they travelled 5 hours to get to us in York, but I may be wrong my sense of distance is not great, nor is my knowledge of Scotland!
 
keepitugly said:
No worries I know it's massive I just have no idea where abouts they are so want to post on all the different areas popular groups. I think they must be at least central as they travelled 5 hours to get to us in York, but I may be wrong my sense of distance is not great, nor is my knowledge of Scotland!
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It's about 2 hrs from Glasgow to the borders, so only about 4 hours to York, maybe a little further north like Perth/Kinross/Fife/Angus... could also be worth posting to Scottish BS/BHS pages, will only reach members but will be widespread.
 
khalswitz said:
I went to uni in southern England and got so sick of people asking in all serious if I had met their friend who went to Scotland once.
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Haha any time I go to England I get people asking me this question, and they are DEADLY SERIOUS!! Or people saying something stupid like "Oh, so you live near Glasgow? My mate goes to uni in Aberdeen, you've probably met!"
 
p87 said:
Haha any time I go to England I get people asking me this question, and they are DEADLY SERIOUS!! Or people saying something stupid like "Oh, so you live near Glasgow? My mate goes to uni in Aberdeen, you've probably met!"
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It's so frustrating. And I was at Cambridge - you'd think they would know better. Americans I can understand being confused the size of Scotland, but we're part of the same country as England (for the time being anyway)...

I remember my friends trying to organise a get together in the holidays, and they decided that Nottingham was the most central. I took great pleasure in telling them that actually Newcastle was halfway between me and London (I'm Aberdeen), so we should really all meet at our friend's house there. I had to prove it with Google maps before they believed me, and I was vetoed anyway! I think people forget how big Scotland is!
 
Jnhuk said:
Four hours to York and you are most likely looking at Borders/Lothian area
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Really? I'm six hours to York from Aberdeen, and central belt is 2 1/2 hours from me... so five hours from York is going to be further north than the central belt (and even Lothian is south central belt!) Borders is only 2-2.5 hours from York!
 
I have a friend who lives in Wick and she takes 10 hours to get to me by train!

I've joined a fair few Facebook groups now, this has been really helpful thank you.

Lets hope someone knows of him.
 
keepitugly said:
I have a friend who lives in Wick and she takes 10 hours to get to me by train!

I've joined a fair few Facebook groups now, this has been really helpful thank you.

Lets hope someone knows of him.
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Once you get north of Inverness time literally TRIPLES to get anywhere. It's 2-2.5 hours to Inverness from Aberdeen, but it can be FOUR to the Black Isle despite not being that much further north... and heading up to Thurso it's like six hours, as trains end and you start relying on buses and very windy roads... plus the windy is so strong you end up driving backwards :D

I can fly to London from Aberdeen four times in the time it takes me to drive to Thurso.

Hopefully you can track him down! If he ends up in Aberdeenshire then let me know and I can try and help you track him down :D
 
khalswitz said:
Really? I'm six hours to York from Aberdeen, and central belt is 2 1/2 hours from me... so five hours from York is going to be further north than the central belt (and even Lothian is south central belt!) Borders is only 2-2.5 hours from York!
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Last time I drove it in a car, thought is was about that so just checked with AA route planner and although technically I am in borders area, AA says it would take me 4hours 4 mins to York.

Going west/east in Borders takes longer than you think. Also Borders is a fairly large area. I am classed as Borders although very near Midlothian
 
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Jnhuk said:
Last time I drove it in a car, thought is was about that so just checked with AA route planner and although technically I am in borders area, AA says it would take me 4hours 4 mins to York.

Going west/east in Borders takes longer than you think. Also Borders is a fairly large area. I am classed as Borders although very near Midlothian
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East-to-west thing is totally true in the Borders, I agree. But I know I've driven from just north of Glasgow (where I used to live) to York in about 3.5 hours, traffic was light admittedly. That was straight down the M74 to the M6 to the A1 nice and simple. And I regularly drive from Aberdeen to Glasgow for work, and it's only 2 - 2.5 hours depending on traffic. So I reckon it depends - you can probably spend as long getting to Stranraer as you can to Glasgow from York, so time doesnt necessarily mean anything.
 
Could you describe him on here? Just on the very-unlikely-off-chance that someone may have seen or heard about him?


Yes, I know Scotland is huge, but surely everything is worth a try once??
 
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