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Not a biggie but I thought it was pretty painful to watch. Mare is for sale at £1500, 10 years old. I would have said she looked about 5! I commented that the video might not be showing it in the best light! I wanted to drag that girl off her.... I was told to bog off unless I'm an expert basically...

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It's not a disaster, I think with some work she could be really sweet. I just don't understand why you wouldn't put the work into her prior to sale?
 
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AW she's very sweet. Not £1500 sweet though. If I hadn't known how old she was I would have thought she was a youngster. She is excellent in traffic though.
 
Riders who keep kicking their horse constantly like the girl in the first part of the video really do my head in. Most horses will respond to a gentle squeeze if you teach them to do that, no need to be swinging your legs around just to keep it moving.
 
A sweet enough pony & seems very safe which some people would pay £1500 for.

I think with a different rider on her she could look much more improved.
 
Is that the dealer riding? cos I wouldn't let them loose with any of mine for a play let alone bringing on for sale :eek:
 
Seems an honest sort of horse. Looks like she probably never had any real schooling though, just hacked about by not very experienced people or maybe driven in the past. Okay for plodding along the roads on.
 
I'm not a fan of the wellies either looks unprofessional for a dealer and was always told a hazard. Riding those Belgium horses is quite painful to watch especially the canter :o
 
B brand cold blood is fairly awful viewing, I can't seem to post a link from my iPad. Haven't watched much else but so far Jenny and Flo look like they need a work up.

Cross.

From what I can work out, that rider is 'Kelly' herself. The website suggests that as a company they are very 'informal'.... Really? No **** Sherlock!
 
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ainouu said:
Riders who keep kicking their horse constantly like the girl in the first part of the video really do my head in. Most horses will respond to a gentle squeeze if you teach them to do that, no need to be swinging your legs around just to keep it moving.
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This magnified a hundredfold - I thought I'd give it up to the mini-roundabout but I can't watch any more. It's a fine example of the downside to the "anyone with the money can own a horse" arguement. If it was possible to inject some kind of automatic taser into people like this rider so that they received a tremendous belt if they went anywhere near a horse - I'll be voting for it!
 
I'm genuinely apalled that they are trying to sell horses with little or no basic controls as novice plods. Some of those horses are pretty saintly to put up with that sort of riding, but this isn't the answer. People buy horses from dealers like that in good faith, expecting it to be safe and controllable. No brakes and no steering is NOT my definition of safe.
 
Just looks like she gets them in, try to do as little as possible to them and sell them quick. By slapping "bombproof" and "novice ride" on them it will attract first time buyers, but as said earlier a lot of these lovely horses and they are lovely need proper schooling and a lot of work done with them before they could appeal to the market she is trying to hit... that's only my opinion though:o
 
undertheweather said:
I might be the only one, but I think she's riding like that on purpose.
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Good god why? I mean why would anyone choose to ride in such a horrible chair seat with their hands and legs wobbling about like jelly and totally unable to sit a canter :eek: She rides like that in all the videos, some of them are frankly terrifying to watch.
 
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