Where do you think your horses would have ended up...

Hovis - with the next person who had seen him I suspect. There was something very special about him from the moment you met him and I have no doubt he'd have gone to someone else who would have been as mad about him as I am. He is that kind of horse.

Sid - ultimately PTS but passing through a series of homes in a downward spiral first. He failed his vetting with us and after I cried an ocean, hubby sent him back to the low life dealer from which he'd come. After I found out what he'd done I phoned them, turned the lorry round on the A1 and brought him back. In some ways the most stupid thing I've ever done but I couldnt bear the thought of him ending up in some hell hole somewhere. He was a hat rack with no hair on his face and the most beautiful bone structure ever.
He gave hubby a great couple of years before breaking his leg and now is a happily retired yobbo
 
not sure;

Mine had bad ulcers (meaning bad attitude/poor performance and a little toad!)

most i doubt would have scoped (we were shocked when we did)...and given her a chance given the massive amount of cost given


Id imagine she would have been passed about a lot....mabey back through the sales.??


She has a home for life with me though and i think after almost 2 years shes starting to like me lol :D
 
Scampi - probably would've ended up in the same place he did with me (teaching a child how to ride and being a companion for my Dad's horse!)

Smokey - can't imagine anyone else would've considered her to be a suitable riding horse, so probably would've stayed in the field running round like a lunatic!

Donna - would've stayed with her owner, being adored and ridden regularly (my Dad had to beg the woman to let him have her, but once she'd gone too old to ride she went back to the woman to live out her days :) )

Playmate & Tidalwave - would've ended up with some other breeder of Standardbreds, whether their days would've been as happy as with me I don't know. Tidalwave is now with a woman being used as a riding horse and totally excelling at it, and Playmate is still with me, eating us out of house and home and once a year popping out a sprog who will also continue to eat us out of house and home!
 
Mine would have ended up at Stow fair or somewhere similar!
He was 3 1/2 months when I had him.
He was bred by the lady I worked for at the time, she didn't want him cause he wasn't coloured enough for CHAPs, his Dam was sold to a traveller on his way back from Stow, but he only wanted the mare, so if I hadn't have had him I don't really know what would have happened to him? :(
 
Where would mine be? Dead. Owner in despair at his quality of life with navicular disease had booked him in for a vet visit expecting not to bring him home. Farrier upset that he could not get him sound in bar shoes. Vets at the end of their abilities to resolve his foot lameness after adequan, tildren and HLA.

I took him on and did a barefoot rehab and now he is a National Show winner, hunts, dressage, jumps, the lot on no meds with no shoes.
 
No way of knowing, the best horse can end up in the worst home, and vice versa. Had I decided not to buy ginger horse after vetting (which he passed with no issues) though, the vet wanted me to let him know so he could buy him for his wife :D
 
Not sure really, probably with a teenager doing pony club as he's such a fun boy, jumps like a dream when he gets going and generally having fun. I often wonder this as am thinking of selling him due to having my confidence shot. The only thing that's holding me back is not knowing where he would end up..
 
Mine was supposed to be going to be shared between two teenage girls, who would only ride on weekends. I imagine after approx a year or so he would have been sold and possibly passed from pillar to post unless some lovely person bought him! As it is, his breeder wanted me to have him because I had more time to spend with him and now he has a home for life. Lucky little thing has never had a care in the world. (And is very arrogant for it! ) X
 
Of my racers one would have been pts as he was a syndicate horse and they couldnt tell the head nor tail of a horse and they didnt know of any other options for him. Jeff was going no where elae other than to me when he finished trainjng. There was no option about that. Laurel would have gone onto a show producers yard but I don't think he would have enjoyed it much. Gray would have gone home to Ireland to be a field ornament.
 
My mare would have been competed to death...whilst slightly lame as she very willing and light to ride....the fact she couldn't use her back end properly would have been ignored by most as she 'looked pretty'.

I always dread to think...she is so honest, I've had 10 years of lameness issues and hardly riding her...but I wouldn't swap it...I am just happy she is with me and not with someone who doesn't know any better or didn't care.
 
Chester - stuck as a field ornament as his owners haven't got time for him, although they are lovely (hubbys aunt, uncle and cousins) they have said if I hadn't have taken him on he would have been a glorified lawn mower.
Lady - not sure but her last loaner wanted to send her to the meat man as she bucked her daughter off. Her owner hasn't got time for her as she works full time, has a 3 year old boy and another on the way.
 
My TB Lester was heading for the meat man if we hadnt bought him we went to test ride him for the local Riding School and just fell in love with him and I bought him there and then and im so glad I did he was amazing he gave me so much confidence at jumping which I was terrified of but ended up doing 3 day events and cc with him and still being hacked out at 35 but sadly was PTS with a brain tumour at 36.

Shire - Eddie an ex police horse aged 24 from WHW I know they get good home but no one wanted go take him on at that age but me I saw the potention and again he stole my heart I had him until he was 33 and I never regret a day.

Clydesdale Foxbar - what can I saw he's larger than life a bit of a handfull and will take the pee but people dont want 18 hands plus so Ive got him now or he would probably end up being pts I think due to size and slight shivers.

Brandy OMG the ever so not a childs pony -- he is bargy, nips, pushes you had no manners at all and was an aduse case but omg do I love this attitude ridden little ginger bugger its taken time and patients but he will now stand still and not bite you when you put a fly sheet on him and will let you spray him he is a WIP as ive only had him since December when I lost my Shire.
 
I am quite sure that all of mine would have been in perfectly good homes except possibly the big girl as she was heading for the dealers yard until her old sharer got in touch with me. being a good jumper but an awkward madam she could have ended up anywhere:( ginger boy would have stayed with his old owner for sure, no doubt about it, Bibble pony would have gone to a showing home and tiny ted would have easily have found a home with another pony mad child, the TB is a fun kind of guy so i'm sure he'd have found a good home eventually too, although he was up for sale in the middle of winter so it may have taken a while.
 
Vardi - Would have probably been bought by the next person to see him and in all probablilty would have fulfilled his Sports horse potential in either dressage or jumping.

However he was diagnosed with severe side bones at 6 so what would have happened to him then I have no idea. I am just an amateur who pootles about with a bit of low level dressage and hacking and I was advised to have him PTS so I could claim the insurance and buy a horse that was not broken, so I can easily imagine that someone who wanted to seriously compete may well have taken that route.

As it is I moved him from Holland to the UK to be with my friend on excercise livery and the great gallomp is happily hacking out, being a riding school horse for the Stage III pupils and doing some low level dressage parties and has not had a moments lameness since I was advised to PTS....I think he maybe overheard!
 
Mmmm, mine was a trekking horse and the centre has now closed; so he would no doubt be in a new home by now - probably someone would have bought him thinking he was a laid-back sort of cob (which he is ..........) BUT he can be a proper fruitloop when he feels like it. Is an absolute darling with a beginner/novice, but god-help the rest basically!!!

So I've a horrible feeling that it just might have all gone horribly wrong. When he's good, he's very very good, but when he's not, he's very horrid!! When I bought him all he'd done for most of his life was follow the bum ahead and would NOT go out on his own or deal with the vast majority of traffic, plus had a will like iron and wasn't afraid to express his opionions by bronking, spinning & has gone up on his hind legs - not high, just a rider-frightener basically, he knows how to try it on.

So, I have a suspicion that he'd probably have got passed on from various homes to market to dealers yard, and round and round, and would probably have been thoroughly mistreated and got into the hands of the meat man by now. He's got sweet itch, which wouldn't have helped his sell-ability one little bit, and whilst I'm prepared to deal with it a lot of people would be put off by that alone.

He is a lovely boy, but can be quirky, tho' he's never stupid enough to do anything where he could get himself injured, like tank off (too much effort). But it seems the more experienced the rider, the more he tries it on initially until he realises he isn't going to get away with it, then he's as good as gold. A bit like a naughty boy with a new class-teacher seeing what he can get away with!!

But bless him, I do think unfortunately that he would probably have ended up in a tin by now if I hadn't had him! Awful thought, but probably true.
 
My 27 year old Arab mare has been very lucky to have had a good breeder and excellent subsequent owners.When i bought her the girl was of th Uni but she made sure she checked me out before parting with her,and then she still visited for a while.I have had her for 16 years and with me she will stay for the rest of her life.
Welsh section D can be sharp and bolshy but essentially a good pony.I still have her as did not feel it was right to sell in case she got into the wrong hands and people mismanaged her.
WB was threatened with the bullet by the previous owner,it seems due to a personality clash.He is a wonderful horse with care and understanding and he too will be a forever horse.Turned out he is a brilliant SJ but some quirks which the last owner could not deal with.His breeder traced him to us and was so relieved to know he is alive and well,and she very much regretted selling him to the middle person in the chain.
 
Mine would probably have been OK. He would have been loaned to someone else and either sold if it was a good home or he would have ended up in a field back at his old owners place. Maybe or maybe not being ridden. He's a good horse really and good horses seem to find their way into good homes. Doubt he would have been as loved, admired and as pampered as he is with me though :).
 
Honey would have been sold on either as a broodmare or project ..
Mysti, well unless they had found someone else to take her on as a companion PTS
 
I would hate to think where my haffy would of ended up, I have had many up & downs over the years I have had him. Just before xmas I tracked down the first owner on passport phoned her & was shocked with what I heard hence him ending up in a market, but I bought him of the people who bought him from the market & they only kept him a year he has been passed around a bit :eek:
 
One of my friends horses ended up working for the police. He was a beautiful hunt horse who was really mischievous. When we used to ride out together he used to lean over and bite my foot. My friend used to breed horses so sold them on quite regularly after they'd been to a few point-to-point meets.

I often wondered how he got being a police horse. He used to spook quite a bit so I'm sure he was the lively one in the bunch!
 
What an interesting post! I have often thought about where mine would have ended up if me and my mum hadn't bought them.

My Appy (who was only five when I bought him) was destined for a life in a riding school as he was very quiet as a youngster :( Although I feel that he would have been banned from hacking out as he a mean buck in him when he wants to! ;)

My mum's ISH is very talented but very sensitive. He was very whip-shy when we first got him (also aged 5) and we think that he had been pushed too much at an early age which had stressed him out. He is a very good jumper and has lovely paces too, but we have taken it very steady to build up his confidence over the years and he has come on in leaps and bounds. It would have been so easy for someone to have bought him and treated him as a 'rosette machine' though as he is honest enough to carry on jumping for them and could have easily been take advantage of and would have been mentally, very worried bless him.

Our little rescue pony (who is now nearly 40) would probably no longer be alive. :(

And the little Irish mare I saved from a dealer's yard last year would probably now be being passed from pillar to post as a problem pony but luckily I found her and she is now in a loving forever home.

:)
 
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