Somebody please buy this guy.

[Merrymoles]

I do like the look of him! Unfortunately, I have vet bills to pay off before I can even start thinking about looking for another and even if money were no object, Dorset is a long way for me to go for a look.

 

[southerncomfort]

If I'm reading it right he was semi broken in a previous home and this owner has done everything bar sit on him.

I'm a terrible cynic I know but I'm seeing 2 people tried to back him and failed.

A good buy for someone experienced in backing horses other people have failed with for sure but he wouldn't be for me (he is gorgeous though!).

 

[ycbm]

That's a definite possibility but at his height it should be reasonably possible to reduce the risk considerably by tacking him up and leaning over him on a viewing.
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[Jellymoon]

It’s fairly obvious there are some significant issues there, but if someone out there has the time, skills, patience, money and space, then snap him up! Not least to save him from the meat man.

 

[dorsetladette]

We've got quite a reasonably priced breaking and sales livery place locally. Owner is probably not paying far off the same livery price for assisted DIY (plus feed, hay and bedding) where he is currently. If I were her I'd have him over there and marketed as a freshly backed 4yr old in the new year. I think he would go quite quickly marketed properly and with a bit more education.
But yes I think possibly there could be an issue with a failed backing/breaking attempt or 2.

Oh if only I had the cash - I have room and Ideally wanted a 3yr old when looking at Robin.

 

[FestiveFuzz]

I saw his ad the other day (possibly linked to in my thread, I can’t remember) and thought he looked a nice type but no way am I up to the job of bringing something on that potentially has failed backing twice and no doubt comes with the associated baggage of that. Could be a bargain for someone ballsier than me though!

 

[FlyingCircus]

Found the breeder- suspect partly broken means sat on and walked/trotted around based on pictures, rather than the no-holes-training kind of style

 

[onemoretime]

I'm already starting Joe, I don't have the energy at 64!
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I know the feeling at 67!

 

[tda]

Would be nice if someone bought him, did some groundwork to get his manners right and then turn him away for a while.
These horses are so slow to mature, ridden away at 3yr old?

 

[criso]

And maybe the current owner thought he was further along when they bought and doesn't have the skills to continue.

 

[Jeni the dragon]

Anyone got a link to the Hackney people are ? at ? My Google skills are terrible today!
I think Joe is going to be a really useful type! Too big for what I'm looking for!

 

[stangs]

Anyone got a link to the Hackney people are ? at ?

https://www.dragondriving.co.uk/horseforsale-179686.html

 

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Rereading today (more sober than yesterday!!)if I had the cash, the time, and could convince them to go down to 1.5k, I'd take a punt on him, turn him away until at least late summer 2022, lightly back and ride in walk all winter then bring on in 2023.

As it is I can't obviously but I really hope someone here does.

 

[ester]

https://www.dragondriving.co.uk/horseforsale-179686.html

would recognise that fence anywhere

 

[chaps89]

would recognise that fence anywhere

And not for good reasons I presume?

 

[onlytheponely]

This is the chached view of that page, Annie is nothing to do with the other horse, just at the top of the page.

https://webcache.googleusercontent....forsale-176295.html+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=fr

 

[Peregrine Falcon]

So he started off at £4k then

 

[QuantockHills]

oooh, i'm very tempted... and only in Somerset.... my friend is looking and this could be perfect.....!!

 

[FlyingCircus]

So he started off at £4k then

Oh! That is a bit worrying...does seem like might be failed vetting!?

 

[Tiddlypom]

I'm getting muddled as to which comments and which links go with which horse.

Is the bay horse in the OP, though undoubtedly a nice stamp, a failed breaker that has also failed a vetting?

 

[teapot]

This is the chached view of that page, Annie is nothing to do with the other horse, just at the top of the page.

https://webcache.googleusercontent....forsale-176295.html+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=fr

Hmmm still not what my google brings up, but stand corrected.

 

[dorsetladette]

https://www.dragondriving.co.uk/horseforsale-179686.html

Then you scroll down tot he next advert and the 3year old ride and drive filly 'has done all the london drives' and is 'bombproof' - makes me sad and angry in equal measures.

 

[Hepsibah]

He was up on one of the FB groups for sale and marked as sold two weeks ago.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/581902152478394/user/100037982689868/

 

[ester]

And not for good reasons I presume?

Jay Archer's place

 

[ycbm]

Jay Archer's place

Prolific dealer on DD, isn't he?
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[ycbm]

He was up on one of the FB groups for sale and marked as sold two weeks ago.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/581902152478394/user/100037982689868/

Can't see where he was marked as sold? If so, then definitely a suspect vet failure. She does look like a small time dealer though. It wouldn't worry me, I got Joe and Ludo off others and you get Sale of Goods Act protection.

 

[chaps89]

Jay Archer's place

Don’t know the name but google suggests he’s connected to the infamous M Stables in Essex?

 

[milliepops]

Can't see where he was marked as sold? If so, then definitely a suspect vet failure. She does look like a small time dealer though. It wouldn't worry me, I got Joe and Ludo off others and you get Sale of Goods Act protection.

Says sold in the comments on the FB post and supposedly collected a fortnight ago :/

 

[ester]

Don’t know the name but google suggests he’s connected to the infamous M Stables in Essex?

yup, they have separate yards now.

 

[photo_jo]

You'd be a little bit suspicious that her long reining photos are from the spring-the trees are coming into leaf in the pics

 

[rabatsa]

Thanks ester you have saved me some angst about a long distance hackney purchase.