What are my legal rights if I have been mis-sold a horse? *LONG STORY*

[cptrayes]

Amyrosee a lot of the people who have posted in response to your plight have completely forgotten that you are still a child. (Sorry, I know you don't see yourself as a child but legally that's the definition). I cannot believe how nasty some of them have been to you - yet I am known on this forum as a hard person!

Please keep faith with yourself. YOU have done NOTHING wrong. You listened to an adult, who unfortunately did not have the skill you paid her for. That's NOT YOUR FAULT!

This pony has got the measure of you, but it was in him to look for every advantage to do that and that's NOT YOUR FAULT either. It should not take constant hard work for a pony to behave in a civilised fashion.

Climbing on the tack locker in a lorry is NOT NORMAL. Very few horses do it - I should know I still have to rope mine down to stop him! - and it IS an indicator of just how highly strung this pony is.

Take NO NOTICE of the nasty people who have posted on here. There are a lot of sad anonymous people who wait around on forums to have a go at anyone they see who they think is weaker than they are. They are sad muppets, just ignore them.

I do hope that this works out OK for you. Good luck, keep safe.

 

[SpruceRI]

What I would do with this horse would be to sell him through a dealer telling the dealer the full facts.

Believe it or not, there are people out there who would love this sort of horse, and actually, you may get a fair bit of your money back.

Your best chance of getting decent money is to lodge the horse with a dealer who will take a percentage of the sale price, but will also charge you some livery in the process.

I did this some years ago with a horse that was a serial bolter. I only actually made £1k loss on the sale. The dealer didn't charge me for the 2 weeks she had him on selling livery because it was she who'd found him for me in the first place from another dealer. (I'm sure the whole situation was 'bent' but I won't go into that).

Anyway, she sold this mad horse to an equally mad woman, who I later met at a show. The horse was still bonkers, but the new owner loved him!

So don't think you're stuck with him because you aren't. And don't keep riding him if you're afraid. Nothing puts you off riding more, I've found, than riding a horse you don't trust.

Good luck

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