The one time I flew to try a horse, I was met at the airport, taken to lunch, (tried the horse) taken to dinner, stayed at a lovely house on the property, fed breakfast and taken to the airport! My only expenses were the flight, pet care while away, and the PRE-purchase exam. Everyone was so dissappointed when the pre-purchase didn’t go well.
THANK YOU, A.P.
Thanks, AP! Great thread and most absurd website I’ve seen in years!
Are there any fees to post on this thread? I didn’t see a disclaimer. If so, please bill me. The cheque is in the mail!
she’s got a few on Dreamhorse
http://www.dreamhorse.com/show_horse.php?form_horse_id=819615
this gelding is listed at $12K on dreamhorse and $18K on her pricelist on the website. Either way, what a deal for a grand prix prospect- maybe I’ll call about him. Do I have to pay the $500 stocking fee for a horse that’s already in VA?:lol: :lol: :lol:
Seriously, I just cannot believe that anyone would even think to buy a horse from this seller. Even a total newbie.
Magnolia 73, you hit it right on- the worst of the worst, but the worst part is that it seems this site is real- this is actually this woman’s business model! :eek: What a crock of shit!
we will also provide your name to our customers as a person of questionable integrity
“Why, hello there, Pot! Nice to hear from you. How’ya doin’?”
oooh, that rider is a top argentinian rider! fabulous! I totally want one now.
“top” at what, I wonder…
caffeinated, I just spewed water all over my screen. :eek::winkgrin::lol:
Well, sure you can buy just one, but you’d have to go pick it up, and we all know that a visit to the farm requires a $500 deposit :winkgrin: Obviously you would want to be a ‘repeat customer’ to take advantage of that great deal 
“made of 3/4’ poly material” too (what is that, 8") :lol:
I can’t stand it anymore! I have been lurking all this time and it’s just too much… I think the real problem is that one of us didn’t think of this sales method first! I mean, heck, why didn’t I think of charging a fee when someone brings back a horse that didn’t work out, or a fee to load a horse that “will load easily and willingly in an OPEN STOCK TRAILER”, or “provide local home delivery ($250 for up to 50 miles)”?
Oh, man, don’t even get me started on that whole vetting thing! And what about the “Prima Donna Trainers, Unreasonable Boarding Stable Staff, Last Minute Purchases” section?! Who would put that on their site? Fruitbats!!
OMG!!! :eek: :lol: you’re putting bad thoughts in my head!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: Fighting the urge to not say something and turn this into the parelli/o’connor/madonna thread 
And Caffienated, you know you would like it.
I can’t even comment…there’s so much wrong there I don’t even know what to say.
It actually sounds very similar to a farm I had some dealings with a number of years ago…actually we had gone to look at some TB’s there and while the horses weren’t exactly in stellar condition (most lame) it wasn’t til later when I moved up to her area that I went back and did some riding for her that I realized there was something VERY wrong about the place.
The first day I got there to ride I went to go into the shed (the only building on the property…horses never actually went in there) and the woman’s son comes running out of the house and tells me not to go in the barn and his mom will be out in a minute :eek: I had already wandered into the “barn” and there was one horse in there that had a blanket on but looked dangerously thin and had puss running down his face.
She immediately told me when she came out that he had gotten sick and was in the barn recovering. She said she found him lying in the field and he must have eaten wood or something and that’s why he had abcesses??? Later I realized that the horses were not being fed (plus had NO shelter) and that the poor horse had probably been in the field starving to death for days until this lazy a#$ horse dealer decided to go check on her herd. She told me the vet put him in a hoist and had to give him all these IV treatments which cost her over $2000…I was quite young at the time and stupidly believed her. I only went there about 6 times in total and I would go in and see the poor guy (a real sweetie) and I looked under his blanket and he was like a skeleton - I mentioned something to her and she said he could hardly eat b/c of the abcesses.
The last time I went…I went in the barn to see him and he was gone. She told me she had had him put down. Later, it occured to me that he had probably just died…it was sickening. I so regret not having called animal control but I was quite young and didn’t really realize the extent of the situation until months later when I got to thinking about it. She also left winter blankets on them all winter without ONCE taking them off to groom so the horses’ coats were all eaten away and their feet were atrocious.
Her website was similar to this woman’s…wacko policies and all kinds of payment plan options. This woman did most of her business on line as well and I have noticed on a BB up here in Canada that she has switched from TB’s to Draft crosses…Shires in particular and calls them Canadian Sporthorses as well.
I wouldn’t be suprised one bit if they were connected somehow. Shady, shady, shady :no:
Who’s riding their horses? Apparently the people who ride in exchange for board, per their help-wanted ad posted elsewhere online. Owning a horse who needs to be boarded does not generally qualify one as a “professional trainer,” as would be implied by phrases like "120 days professional training). Just MHO.
“believe that they are saying that you can get a maximum of one “person-work-hour” and that “person-work-hour” can either be ONE person for ONE hour, (1 person x 1 hour = 1 person-hour) or TWO people for a HALF hour (2 persons x 0.5 hour = 1 person-hour)”
Please, please, it’s SUMMER! I just finished Geometry- don’t do this to me. :lol:
Oh, allow me tointroduce myself. I live in Virginia but no where near this farm (at least I don’t think!). I’m a polo player with zero horses. Please see my signature link to review my qualifications for posting… you will find my name, contact information, occupational information, and photo galleries.
Don’t forget the part about returning a youngerster, after all your parents didn’t return you when you got pimples…lol Double WTF?
Yes, I was thinking there COULD have been a much easier way to word that phrase on her website though it shouldn’t be there in the first place:eek:
oooh, I know… I just finished accounting But this is a good bit of entertainment after taking my final exam :yes:
One word…UNREAL
I wonder if they would tack that $100 if you loaded w/o their assistance, or if they call haltering and leading the horse out of the barn helping. ACKKKK-make it stop!!! The way this reads to me is that if you show up to pick one up, they charge you $100. If you don’t, then they charge you $3 something per mile and boarding for whenever they decide to deliver the horse. Am I off track here?
ACCKKKK!!!:eek: IT JUST GETS WORSE!!! STOPPPPPP THE INSANITY!!! A MIN. ORDER OF $250??? WTF
I’d like to know what the final cost of getting one of these horses is by the time you add on all the ‘extra’ charges. Well, maybe I wouldn’t really… :rolleyes:
Hey, I think I know you from a different horse site. In fact, you were my Secret Santa…or maybe I was yours. Can’t remember…
Buying a horse from a shady dealer online, sight unseen, can’t be THAT bad! After all, I did it! I bought a moderately cheapish “husband horse”, “super trail horse,” “sweetie,” and when I went to pick him up I found a really great Hard-to-catch-Sheath-swollen-Headshy-Foundered-Lame-Can’t-be-tied-Wormy-Can’t-be-ridden
-Melanoma-riddled-EPSM-symptom-having-Overweight-Hooves-a-wreck-Bolter dreamboat!
Yes, I really did. I’m not an inexperienced idiot, I had my reasons, and I don’t regret it. But really, folks - do you think I could have expected anything better??
