what would you do?

[henryhorn]

I would ring all the local feed merchants/tack shops/riding school etc and ask if anyone knows him.
I had a similar debt problem and found people were only too happy to tell me where the chap was, eventually I rang him on a restaurant phone when he was having lunch there with his accountant courtesy of his neighbour giving me the info and although I got some money out of him, he disappeared again dumping three horses on me.
I reckon you can find out where your horse is if he still has her and just go and take her back. It's then up to him to recover the money from you against the cost of you transporting her and keeping her at livery (it's amazing how you can run that up as a deterrant

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[elliegirl12]

we got a phone call yesterday from him he is paying up the money already sent most of it and also from the yard owner saying all this stuff and apparently she is very well fed and happy and that he hasnt found the right stallion yet to put with her!

and can i jus say to tht lhs person! that we have never even sold a horse before always kept them! and that she is worth a little bit cuz of her breeding and that her colts are doing fantastic in the racing! and who the hell is jaimie grey?

 

[ghosthooves]

Jamie Grey - http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/173381.html

 

[elliegirl12]

so what do u mean by that? i would neva dream of sending a horse to slaughter or supporting those stupid people!

 

[emma69]

Out of interest, did she get kissing spine from a badly fitting saddle or similar?

 

[elliegirl12]

No they cannot get kissing spines from a badly fitting saddle... that is what i got told by my vet. when we bought her when she was vetted she was very sensitive and the vet just thought that bein very sensitive that her backwas going to be the same if you know what i mean she had only been bought back into work from having foals so we presumed that her being sensitive/ she would barley let us touch her legs but we took her on as a challenge and accepted but then she reared up and went over backwards (never done anything before like that b4 that accasion) and she needed physio and she had swellings on her back basicly got her xrayed and she had ks and being the type of horse she was the vet said she didnt know whether she would make it though the op so we had to make a desicion whether to put her down or to sell her as a broadmare and give her a chance in life she was only 9!

 

[emma69]

If her KS is not from injury / ill fitting tack (and as far as I am aware there is no definitive answer on this), then there is no way on earth I would breed from her, or let her be bred from knowing that her offspring could inherit the condition, and therefore be condemed to the meat man or similar as they would prove unridable if they inherited their mother's condition. Given there is no truma cause for her KS, it is reasonable to presume it may be hereditary, and that is a risk I would just not want to take, and am surprised anyone else would.

 

[elliegirl12]

well her colts that have been bred are alrite but tbh we dont know anyting about breeding but the vet said she would be ok to breed from! we wouldnt of sold her if we didnt get advice about it! maybe it was inherited i dont know! we also spoken to a breeder locally and she would of had her if it wasnt for her colour! so yeah sorri

 

[emma69]

I am guessing as she is only 9 her colts are not very old, most of the horses I have met with KS have been diagnosed a bit later on in life. What's done is done, but worth knowing for the future

 

[Stinkbomb]

Im sorry but if he doesnt pay there really is not much the police can do. You have let her go without the rest of the payment. You say he signed a contract but unfortunatley unless its done through a solicitor they are not worth the paper they are written on, even then you are in a grey area. The police would just say its a civil matter to be sorted through a solicitor but if she's not worth that much it might cost you more than the money you are owed. I think you will just have to put this down to experience im affraid.