Horsie People Again...

[Beki]

sometimes things are too good to be true if your thinking of getting the horse ask to ride it first but don't let the horse pull the wool over your eyes. check her out good.

[ComedyDevil]

She *looks* fine, from what I can see in the pics, but take a really close look at her. Ask to see her walked and trotted in hand, and also in a circle (lameness can often show up on a circle/tight turn even if it's not obvious when the horse is walking in a straight line).

She looks to be a nice horse, but (and im sure you know this already) good legs are one of the most important things to look for in a horse, because their legs are complicated, easy to get problems with but difficult to fix. If she has got bad legs, you'll have no end of troubles with her.

Tread carefully

[areias]

It's a no-go. Went out there...and the horse barely knew the basics, she was pretty green. She had trouble getting balanced with a rider-when you asked her to trot, she would stop and go, stop and go and throw you forwards and backwards. I went to try a canter...she was all over the place and tried to take off towards the girl and my friend standing across the field, got very strong. She needed a LOT of work. My friend, who barrel races, rode her too and echoed me, that she had a hard time just trotting her. She seemed almost dopey to me, although she could have been just real calm-she just like, stood there while I tacked her up, no interest whatsoever.

The leg really didn't look all that great-I felt it and it was kind of lumpy o.O. Plus I probably would have had to put another $200 or so into her...her feet were ATROCIOUS, horrible, she would have needed shoes on all 4 until they got better, she had like no hoof and it was ragged all the way around. I think the pictures were from a while back. They had never had her teeth done...hadn't wormed her since August. I looked at her coggins papers and it said she was 12, not 8. So...pretty much a no.


I now have a place I can keep a horse for free, plus feed and stuff...my neighbor really wants me to buy her gelding (she's gotten offers but turned them down?). She told me I could make payments on him, so I gotta put some thought into that and maybe go out and ride him again.