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| gypsy1997 - 2015-04-29 12:34 PM
I had someone want to come and look at a horse that was advertised as "started on the pattern, long trotting pattern". She got upset because my husband told her she couldn't run this mare through the pattern. I couldn't get through to her that a horse that is just started on the pattern shouldn't be run through. She said she was worried about soundness. I told her she was welcome to have the mare vet checked. She never showed up. And the mare was priced cheap. Frustrating
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Not trying to go off topic but this sounds like a blessing in disguise, since you wouldn't really want someone like that to buy ur horse, get it all messed up and then tell everyone they bought it from you and blame you for the created problem.
To the original post, the closest thing iv ever bought to a finished horse was one high loping that needed seasoning, and i trotted the pattern/maybe slow loped but I didnt try to run, I just watched the owner and knew I had to have him lol.
eta I would be careful as the above poster said you dont want to end up buying a horse that does not fit your style at all.
Edited by horsiace1025 2015-04-29 2:25 PM
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Location: Woodstown, NJ | I've never bought a finished barrel horse but if I did and paid accordingly, I would want to be able to run a pattern. Your guy doesn't sound quite finished, or he's come undone, no pun intended, if he's blowing up at the lope. And so I wouldn't have pushed him further either. It is what it is. You know you've got some work to do.
We just bought a horse on Sunday. The sellers were fooling around with her on the barrels and they put her through a set because they thought that was what we'd like to see. Then they encouraged my daughter to run one too but she opted out and simply walked, jogged, and loped. That's all we needed to know. She's far from finished and we'll do things our own way, nice and slow. | |
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Location: Woodstown, NJ | pinx05 - 2015-04-28 5:49 PM crapshooter - 2015-04-28 3:56 PM Better yet, ask the owner to w/t/c. Don't get on if it's dangerous. I ALWAYS ask the owner to get on and do the things with the horse that I will do with the horse when I get on.
For instance I went to look at a horse for my child and husband as a good gentle beginner horse. They claimed that this horse was the horse for me. So I went and looked at him. Couldn't ride in the arena that day (I think it was really sloppy), so I asked if I could come back and test ride him. They said Sure no problem. So I did. Well I asked the owner if he would get on first just so I could watch him (When really most of my reasoning is to see if I might die when I get on the horse). I asked him if he could w/t/c and he said sure. Well he didn't get him above a trot. I asked him if he could and I could tell he really didn't want to, kept telling me how bomb proof this horse was. I ended up telling him I wasn't interested, so he gave in. As soon as he got this horse out of a trot he blew up on the guy. This horse wasn't doing just a little hopping around either. I never did get on that horse. So much for a beginner horse...
I could tell though there was a reason that guy didn't want to get him into a canter. Turns out I was right, and I was glad it wasn't me getting lawn darted. lol If an owner won't get on their own horse and put them through the paces I will walk away right then, because they know something that I don't care to find out. Granted I am not asking them to get on their horse and give me an award winning perfomance... just show me that it isn't going to try to kill me lol.
This cracked me up. Hope you don't mind me veering off course a bit on the thread, but I also learned to never get on a horse first when horse shopping no matter how bombproof it's supposed to be. The last time I did this was when I got on a pony that was supposed to be bombproof for my small daughter. It bucked me off. I tell my daughter now (she's 18 now), don't do anything the seller won't do. If the seller won't lope it, don't you lope. Seems the loping problem is common lately. We looked at three horses recently who the owner wouldn't lope. The one last week was supposed to be "well-broke." The only problem it had was it was herd bound. No big deal. I could fix that. Well-broke--all I had to do was start training it for barrels. It was ready to go. So we drive three hours. The horse is not broke at all! The owner seemed shocked that I asked her to get on it first. She reluctantly got on. With a bit of trouble. Horse stepping sideways, getting light on the front end... Husband holds it to help her. She mounts from the fence. Plop in the saddle! Can't get the mare to walk or jog in a consistent manner so I can get a good look at how it moves. Had it on plenty of trail rides though. Turns out she puts visitors on the horse and it follows the other horses on the trail. That's why it's so herd bound. That's all it does. It hadn't even ever been in the round pen before. I asked, "Who broke this horse?" she said, "Oh, So-and-So rode it three or four times a few years ago." She had to call the neighbor over--a hand--to give it a little round pen lesson so I could see it move. The horse kicked and aimed at the neighbor multiple times. Needless to say, none of us got on that horse. Nor did we buy it. | |
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