Would you take this horse?

DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Both Monty and Zoom were freebies where I'd been riding them for a while and the owners didn't want them. Monty was 28yo and a bit of a dick, Zoom was only 11yo but had one eye and was fizzy as hell!

They were two of the best decisions I ever made. No horse is perfect but to know their quirks already and ALSO that you love them anyway means you are ten steps ahead.

You sound so sweet and I'm sure you guys will have many years of fun together.

NOW GO GET HIM!!!!
 
i think you aswell as the rest of know your mind is already made up!!...your going to take him regaurdless! you just needed reasurance your doing the right thing didnt you! lol... now you know you are anyway.... good luck with him!

if only every horse had an owner as caring as you! :D
 
Agree with the others go for it if that is what you want. I took on my loan horse almost 4 year ago and knew he wouldn't pass a vetting. Bought him of owner for £1 as she just wanted good home for him. He has been amazing, now semi retired to hacking few times a week but love him to bits and so glad I took him on. He was around 16 at the time, older horses are the best :)

Would just say as others have get a receipt and a nominal fee to change ownership x

Good luck and some pics if you decide to take him :)
 
Thank you all SOOOO much. You have been so kind and I very much appreciate all of your comments and support.

A sneaky pic for you ... Now please no one tell me the horse is theres after it was stolen Hahaa This is a couple of months old now when i first met him ... :o

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Go get him. Buy him for £1 and get a bill of sale, signed by the current owner. Don't rely of word of mouth because people are unreliable.

Good luck.
 
OWLIE185 said:
If you can not afford to buy him then you will not have the finacial reserves to pay for vets bills.
Buying a horse is the cheap part. Keeping them going and maintaining them is whats eats the money.
Vets bills can easily escalate to many thousands of pounds i.e £20,000 when things start going wrong.
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Honestly :rolleyes::rolleyes: If you used that criteria I doubt if there would be many horses around.

OP, go for it if you think you can afford it. If you take out insurance now it can be continued until they are 25. He looks a lovely boy.

And just to put the vets bills in perspective. My 36 year old has cost a couple of hundred in his lifetime (excluding routine) so has our 23 year old cob. The young and (in theory) healthy warmblood has cost thousands :rolleyes:
 
OWLIE185 said:
If you can not afford to buy him then you will not have the finacial reserves to pay for vets bills.
Buying a horse is the cheap part. Keeping them going and maintaining them is whats eats the money.
Vets bills can easily escalate to many thousands of pounds i.e £20,000 when things start going wrong.
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I don't agree with this at all.
How many people on here with a horse have 20k to hand?!

Personally most of mine would be pts rather than go through any intense procedure. Oldies deserve to be pts if the time comes and most of ours wouldn't cope with anything like box rest so wouldn't put them through it. If it's a simple procedure you find the money.
It's a huge distance between not being able to afford to throw 20k at a horse to purchase and finding insurance/vet money or pts money when the time comes.
 
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