Hi..
I went to see the horse with OH this afternoon.. And got totally lucky.. Arrived at yard to find the most charming TB gelding.
I had got my spies out to check out the sellers.. 100% kosher.. amazingly nice people with a real love for horses and very well known in the area & within RC circles.. so I arrived with less cynicism!
Utterly lovely Gelding. Beautiful manners and temperment. Looks like a train wreck. He is basically a skeleton. His coat is falling out and his feet are roughly twice the length they should be. They basically saved him from the meatman which is where he was headed..
The poor previous owner sadly died only a couple of weeks ago .. B - a well known Dressage Trainer who teaches my friend V - knew her (found this out tonight while V was having a lesson and I was telling her about this horse).. and while she was ill he was pushed about from pillar to post a bit.. and ended up living in a field behind her elderly parents house who weren't able to look after him properly (and tbh while their daughter was so ill he prob wasn't a priority..)
Previous lady had bought the horse to bring on but became ill shortly after buying him - she loved him and backed and broke him herself.. This prob accounts for the beautiful manners. She planned to event him.
He moves like a dream.. is a pleasure to ride... is totally unbalanced and unschooled but couldn't be more willing.. Very responsive.. Jumps green but with bags of potential. Pops 1.05m easily but with legs everywhere!
So anyway.. I've bought him (subject to vet) He looks like nothing on earth but a few months of TLC and he'll be fab. His new career is yet to be decided but he will at some point show as a large RH..
Bx
I went to see the horse with OH this afternoon.. And got totally lucky.. Arrived at yard to find the most charming TB gelding.
I had got my spies out to check out the sellers.. 100% kosher.. amazingly nice people with a real love for horses and very well known in the area & within RC circles.. so I arrived with less cynicism!
Utterly lovely Gelding. Beautiful manners and temperment. Looks like a train wreck. He is basically a skeleton. His coat is falling out and his feet are roughly twice the length they should be. They basically saved him from the meatman which is where he was headed..
The poor previous owner sadly died only a couple of weeks ago .. B - a well known Dressage Trainer who teaches my friend V - knew her (found this out tonight while V was having a lesson and I was telling her about this horse).. and while she was ill he was pushed about from pillar to post a bit.. and ended up living in a field behind her elderly parents house who weren't able to look after him properly (and tbh while their daughter was so ill he prob wasn't a priority..)
Previous lady had bought the horse to bring on but became ill shortly after buying him - she loved him and backed and broke him herself.. This prob accounts for the beautiful manners. She planned to event him.
He moves like a dream.. is a pleasure to ride... is totally unbalanced and unschooled but couldn't be more willing.. Very responsive.. Jumps green but with bags of potential. Pops 1.05m easily but with legs everywhere!
So anyway.. I've bought him (subject to vet) He looks like nothing on earth but a few months of TLC and he'll be fab. His new career is yet to be decided but he will at some point show as a large RH..
Bx
