Yeoman1
New User
A little while ago, my mother posted on here about a horse that she had purchased from the yard she stabled another horse at. She paid for the horse, had it chipped, got the passport etc, but when she decided to leave the yard owner (and seller of the second horse) said that she couldn't take the horse with her, that she could only have the horse she'd originally brought to the yard.
It all got very nasty, the Police had to be involved etc. Her tack was vandalised, they left the original horse in a dire state (didn't feed it while they were holding it 'hostage' etc) and were generally very threatening. Eventually, they gave my mother her original horse, most of what was left of her tack and the money back for the horse they'd 'sold.'
The Police have told me that this family have done the same thing several times to people in recent years; they tried to extort more money out of my mother but apparently have done the same in the past. These people are actively selling horses from their Warwickshire yard and are also posing as a 'DEFRA Registered' horse transport business. DEFRA have never heard of them.
My reason for posting is that I don't want anyone to go through the heartache and anguish that I saw my mother go through because of these people. I know these people are advertising regularly in Horse and Hound so there is a danger it could happen again.
If anyone wants any details about this, please PM me and I will give you their details. I am quite happy to arrange to talk directly to anyone who is concerned they might be about to inadvertently deal with these people. You don't have to take my word for it; I will happily give you the contact details of several others who've had dealings with this family but I'd just rather nobody else suffered like my mother and her horse has.
On the face of it they are very respectable, nice people. However, their catalogue of dealings with the police is immense; they have a history of being intimidating and threatening and on the wrong side of the law.
It all got very nasty, the Police had to be involved etc. Her tack was vandalised, they left the original horse in a dire state (didn't feed it while they were holding it 'hostage' etc) and were generally very threatening. Eventually, they gave my mother her original horse, most of what was left of her tack and the money back for the horse they'd 'sold.'
The Police have told me that this family have done the same thing several times to people in recent years; they tried to extort more money out of my mother but apparently have done the same in the past. These people are actively selling horses from their Warwickshire yard and are also posing as a 'DEFRA Registered' horse transport business. DEFRA have never heard of them.
My reason for posting is that I don't want anyone to go through the heartache and anguish that I saw my mother go through because of these people. I know these people are advertising regularly in Horse and Hound so there is a danger it could happen again.
If anyone wants any details about this, please PM me and I will give you their details. I am quite happy to arrange to talk directly to anyone who is concerned they might be about to inadvertently deal with these people. You don't have to take my word for it; I will happily give you the contact details of several others who've had dealings with this family but I'd just rather nobody else suffered like my mother and her horse has.
On the face of it they are very respectable, nice people. However, their catalogue of dealings with the police is immense; they have a history of being intimidating and threatening and on the wrong side of the law.
