what circumstances would make you sell?

I couldn't have sold my mare on to save my life!

Not only am I cronic hoarding Cancerian ( though I don't go along with astrology!) sort of bloke - I am also deeply sentimental and my mare plucked those old heartstrings like no other.

Once, when I was in desperate financial straits, a really poncey, full of himself and loaded bloke that liveried at the same yard offered me his Porche or the same money for her ..... I took him round the back of the box and hit him. I wouldn't sell you a dead rat.

Somehow I always managed to keep her in the lap of luxury - though I did live on bread cheese and water for a month to do it for a while - I also wrote a will naming her as beneficary with the young girl loaner of my daughter's pony as notional owner - I've never told anyone about that before!

However, said daughter went off grooming to a top eventer taking her horse and the next minute she'd sold her off! Hard as nails you girls!
 
I am facing the very hard decision as my health is not good. My on off affair with warfarin and the heart problems I am facing the possibility it might be time to give up on riding. My back is getting worse and I feel that it might be time. I know my OH worries about my continuing injuries and health. I want to go on as long as I can but know it is getting more difficult. I will continue to enjoy watch our stallion out competing. My problem is that I enjoy the time I spend on the yard and when I am able to ride I love it.
 
I would sell my house before I would sell Arnie. Luckily, if anything happened that I couldnt care for him, he has a fan club who would take him in a heartbeat. I wouldnt sell him though - he would be gifted to one of a very few select folk.

Arnie is very much my pet though rather than a "for riding" animal. Years ago he had behavioural issues and it looked like he was going to be unrideable. The decision was made back then that he would be kept as a pet. Since then, he has come really good and is a fantastic wee horse but riding is a very very small part of our relationship.
 
Skippys Mum said:
I would sell my house before I would sell Arnie....... I wouldnt sell him though - he would be gifted to one of a very few select folk.
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I can relate to that but I also feel that once someone has coughed up a decent sum - they are less likely to throw away whatever it is they've bought.

Arnie is very much my pet though rather than a "for riding" animal. Years ago he had behavioural issues and it looked like he was going to be unrideable. The decision was made back then that he would be kept as a pet. Since then, he has come really good and is a fantastic wee horse but riding is a very very small part of our relationship.
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I can also relate to that too - many of the Horseys I've met actually do exactly the same ( despite what they might tell you ) I had many days I reserved for nothing else but watching my mare and even did a few days observing our turnout where daughter's second pony was retired - fascinating stuff that most people miss. I used to see liveries scream into the yard, do their steed at breakneck speed - even if this involved riding a lesson and before I knew it, their rear lights were disappearing down the lane. Whereas I practically lived there.

Having said that, I used to ride my mare for at least two hours most days - for seventeen years - this allows for my time off and a few injury time outs for her = 6205 x 2 = 12410 ( let's forget the leap years!) Some weekends I sat for eight or nine hours so add a few of those - there's nearly 900 weekends in that time but I'm reckoning on half so that's another 5000 hours or say 17,000 altogether - that would be a pretty good rating for a commercial pilot!

As I used to keep the contact all the time I reckon my elbows bent up to 500 times an hour when riding so even at 25% that's 2,000,000 times - excluding yard work before my day time job - no wonder I'm knackered!
 
maree t said:
My poor friend has just found herself in this situation. Her husband was killed on thursday. She has a horse of her own and a young 12.2 and my 11.2 on loan/ She has a 2 year old, a disabled 4 year old and a 7 year old child. I am desperatly trying to help rehome the 12.2 if anybody is interested. kent area.
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This is very sad, where in Kent is she as we are in Kent and maybe able to help out
 
I nearly did due to my health problems but with some encouragement here, & consequentially a new friend who has organised some new things & is jumping him tomorrow & a change of yard (ayto 24/7 but with stable) my horsey life has been tranformed andnI will hopefully never have to think about it again! Off to tailm/leg wash today to keep him in ready for tomorrow so it is nice having options.
 
I'm in this unhappy position at the moment, trying to find ways of keeping her and still meeting all other obligations. Swore I would never part with her, she is my baby!
Sometimes the best laid plans and all that! Am looking at possible short term loan, just to cut us some slack. Can't bear the thought of someone else having her, or selling and not knowing her future.
 
Will never sell my mare, no one would buy her anyway. My gelding I absolutely adore but I would sell him if I had to move from the yard where I work and live. He is a cracking horse and such a sweetie but he is high maintenance and if I couldn't afford to keep him somewhere with the right facilities or didn't have the time to give him the attention and work he needs, I would let him go. His previous owner would have first refusal though! My previous horse I sold when it got to the stage where I was going to get seriously hurt if I continued riding him. I loved him to bits but he was dangerous. In hindsight, I almost wish I had him PTS instead of selling to a dealer but what's done is done.
 
I sold my first homebred because of last years events leaving me barely able to put food on the table. OH and i have lost our house, and pretty much my job. I am also suffering with depression and i am not able to give him, a youngster, the time he needs to produce him to his potential. So i had to make the heartbreaking decision to put him before me.
 
Toast said:
I sold my first homebred because of last years events leaving me barely able to put food on the table. OH and i have lost our house, and pretty much my job. I am also suffering with depression and i am not able to give him, a youngster, the time he needs to produce him to his potential. So i had to make the heartbreaking decision to put him before me.
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Sorry to hear that it get very difficult I just want the whole thing over with but the market is awful even for great ponies
 
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