dancingkris
Well-Known Member
I will try and keep this short – but just needed to vent as I am so angry!!
I have 2 horses – one a retired older boy and a youngster. I had just started on the youngsters education when I found out I was pregnant so decided to get a sharer for him. The guy I have is fab and a qualified instructor so I have fallen on my feet with him. The yard we are on is lovely, however has no ménage or access to hacking so my sharer was not really getting very far with my horse and we decided that it was for the best that he found somewhere for him with better facilities. We found a nice little yard local to both of us (advertised on here funnily enough!!) that could also accommodate the old boy so we didn’t have to split them up and everything seemed perfect. It would be the YM’s horses and ours only.
We visited the new yard again on Monday evening to sort everything out and agreed again which stables we’d be having (internal ones with a storage area at the front of the stable) and the new YM – lets call her R - agreed that she’d use my sharer for lessons and even asked if he’d school her horse for her. She gave us the gate codes and we agreed to start moving some stuff in over the next few days. The cost for the 2 stables was £50 per week as we’re on DIY. We left there really happy and looking forward to the move and all seemed great with them. I would also say this point she was aware as we had mentioned that the youngster did very occasionally windsuck but only when he was excited and but he didn’t chew wood etc . She seemed fine about it and said her old horse used to eat his stable and their little ‘quirks’ were what made them all different.
On Tuesday night R texted me asking for my email address to send the contract to and seemed pleased that we’d sorted out transport for the boys for Saturday morning.
Yesterday evening around 7pm I was at the current yard packing up my stuff in preparation for starting to move over today. I then received a phone call from R’s partner, G, who admits he’s not really horsey, stating that they had had a think about things and decided that my 2 horses would be going in the 2 stables which were outdoor (which we’d never seen) as opposed to the indoor ones we’d agreed on. I decided to go down to see him/the stables rather than discussing on the phone, and met him there with my sharer. When we got there the padlock had been changed from the code lock to an ordinary padlock which I though a bit odd given that we’d agreed to move stuff over this week. The stables in question were very small and low – certainly not as big as the ones we’d agreed on and the price was £45 per week for the 2 stables. I said I would prefer to stick to the original plan however if that was OK with them. G said he’d talk to R (who wasn’t at the yard at the time) and call me. He rang 30 mins later and stated it was those stables or nothing. I had a chat with my sharer and we agreed that we’d take them, but felt the stables were worth £40 per week and on the proviso that we had an internal stable to store our stuff. Again he said he’d speak to R and let me know. I asked if R could call me directly to discuss rather than going through him as a ‘middle man’. I also stressed what an awkward position we now found ourselves in and that for the goalposts to be moved at such a late stage was a bit worrying and not a good start to our relationship. I had given notice at my current yard, and my stables were let so I hoped we could come to some arrangement with them. I then received a text at 9pm just saying ‘sorry for any inconvenience but we’ve decided to leave it’ – so therefore as of Saturday my boys are homeless!!
We tried to call them both but neither of them would answer the phone, however my sharer did text R and she replied to say it was G (the unhorsey one!) who made the final decision and it was down to the fact that my young boy occasionally windsucked and he didn’t want their horses to ‘catch’ this.
We are now in the horrible position of having to find 2 stables at very short notice and I am already stressed to the hilt and with pregnancy hormones etc this is the last thing I need!! I understand that people change their mind about things but I think the way that they have done this is very underhand and unprofessional. At the end of the day we had a verbal contract which in my book counts for a lot. The fact that R couldn’t even speak to me herself and got her partner to do her dirty work speaks volumes.
We are going to look at a yard this evening which hopefully will fit the bill but is considerably more expensive and further away and I am just devastated that this has happened when we thought we’d found the perfect place.
I’m not sure as to whether I’m asking for advice – or just a sympathetic ear really – and I’m sorry that I haven’t been able to keep this short either!! Nor do I have any goodies on offer – only flippin Gaviscon liquid!!
I have 2 horses – one a retired older boy and a youngster. I had just started on the youngsters education when I found out I was pregnant so decided to get a sharer for him. The guy I have is fab and a qualified instructor so I have fallen on my feet with him. The yard we are on is lovely, however has no ménage or access to hacking so my sharer was not really getting very far with my horse and we decided that it was for the best that he found somewhere for him with better facilities. We found a nice little yard local to both of us (advertised on here funnily enough!!) that could also accommodate the old boy so we didn’t have to split them up and everything seemed perfect. It would be the YM’s horses and ours only.
We visited the new yard again on Monday evening to sort everything out and agreed again which stables we’d be having (internal ones with a storage area at the front of the stable) and the new YM – lets call her R - agreed that she’d use my sharer for lessons and even asked if he’d school her horse for her. She gave us the gate codes and we agreed to start moving some stuff in over the next few days. The cost for the 2 stables was £50 per week as we’re on DIY. We left there really happy and looking forward to the move and all seemed great with them. I would also say this point she was aware as we had mentioned that the youngster did very occasionally windsuck but only when he was excited and but he didn’t chew wood etc . She seemed fine about it and said her old horse used to eat his stable and their little ‘quirks’ were what made them all different.
On Tuesday night R texted me asking for my email address to send the contract to and seemed pleased that we’d sorted out transport for the boys for Saturday morning.
Yesterday evening around 7pm I was at the current yard packing up my stuff in preparation for starting to move over today. I then received a phone call from R’s partner, G, who admits he’s not really horsey, stating that they had had a think about things and decided that my 2 horses would be going in the 2 stables which were outdoor (which we’d never seen) as opposed to the indoor ones we’d agreed on. I decided to go down to see him/the stables rather than discussing on the phone, and met him there with my sharer. When we got there the padlock had been changed from the code lock to an ordinary padlock which I though a bit odd given that we’d agreed to move stuff over this week. The stables in question were very small and low – certainly not as big as the ones we’d agreed on and the price was £45 per week for the 2 stables. I said I would prefer to stick to the original plan however if that was OK with them. G said he’d talk to R (who wasn’t at the yard at the time) and call me. He rang 30 mins later and stated it was those stables or nothing. I had a chat with my sharer and we agreed that we’d take them, but felt the stables were worth £40 per week and on the proviso that we had an internal stable to store our stuff. Again he said he’d speak to R and let me know. I asked if R could call me directly to discuss rather than going through him as a ‘middle man’. I also stressed what an awkward position we now found ourselves in and that for the goalposts to be moved at such a late stage was a bit worrying and not a good start to our relationship. I had given notice at my current yard, and my stables were let so I hoped we could come to some arrangement with them. I then received a text at 9pm just saying ‘sorry for any inconvenience but we’ve decided to leave it’ – so therefore as of Saturday my boys are homeless!!
We tried to call them both but neither of them would answer the phone, however my sharer did text R and she replied to say it was G (the unhorsey one!) who made the final decision and it was down to the fact that my young boy occasionally windsucked and he didn’t want their horses to ‘catch’ this.
We are now in the horrible position of having to find 2 stables at very short notice and I am already stressed to the hilt and with pregnancy hormones etc this is the last thing I need!! I understand that people change their mind about things but I think the way that they have done this is very underhand and unprofessional. At the end of the day we had a verbal contract which in my book counts for a lot. The fact that R couldn’t even speak to me herself and got her partner to do her dirty work speaks volumes.
We are going to look at a yard this evening which hopefully will fit the bill but is considerably more expensive and further away and I am just devastated that this has happened when we thought we’d found the perfect place.
I’m not sure as to whether I’m asking for advice – or just a sympathetic ear really – and I’m sorry that I haven’t been able to keep this short either!! Nor do I have any goodies on offer – only flippin Gaviscon liquid!!
