Views please! Would you buy back horse?

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Hi everyone,

Advice please. If you sell a horse, do you add any proviso's or guarantee to buy back if the horse does not gel with the new owner? What would you do if this happens 2 months after a sale and in the intervening period all seemed to be well?

Look forward to your replies.
 
Its 'users preferance' with that type of thing. But, through personal experience, there is nothing you can do to demand they sell it to you. Once it is theirs, nothing you put down on paper can actually be used to hold them against having to sell the horse back.

bexcy-bee x
 
2 months isn’t very long, have they contacted you? Once a horse is sold you relinquish all ownership, if you know things are not well maybe contact them and ask nicely if they ever decide to sell would they contact you first so you can have the opportunity to buy back
 
I have bought quite a few horses back. I've never had anyone look to sell the horse within that short a period of time though although of course if they weren't gelling then yes I'd buy it back. I bought 3 horses back last summer where all of them had been with these owners for over 2 years. One owner was emigrating, one owner was made redundant and the other needed to downsize her horses and was not selling the one she bought from me, but I sat biding my time and eventually when she couldn't sell any of her others she came to me and said that she would sell back as she had to drop her numbers.
 
It is part of the 'service' some dealers provide. You don't pay just for the horse but the option to return it (even if it wasn't at all miss-sold) too.

If you're a private individual I'd think it would depend why you where selling (e.g. 'can't afford to keep it any more' is different to 'bought it to bring on') and how much you care about the horse.

I do know of previous owners/breeders who would always want to be considered 'home of last resort' for their horses.

If you don't want this animal back you don't have to take it but you will have (some) more control over its welfare if you do.

If you really want to ensure its future you could try loaning it (somewhere you can keep an eye) next time.
 
I've just bought a horse (privately) and the old owner wanted it written into the contract that I'd offer her first refusal if I ever came to sell him.

How legally binding it would be I don't know but I was happy to agree to offer her first refusal.

I've not sold any of mine - I've put them out on loan as I'd hate to lose control of what happens to them in the future.

If I was ever to sell then I probably would offer to buy back if I had the means to do so.
 
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