Or, owner has lost confidence through accident / injury that wasn’t the horse’s fault.
For example: Fall over a jump (rider), fall off another horse (now giving up riding), injury that no longer permits owner to ride / be comfortable.
Or owner has lost job / downsizing / divorce / lost interest in riding / changing discipline / lost agistment / moving…
Or the most common of all: rider has outgrown in size / ability.
Plenty of reasons that a horse ends up for sale through no fault of his own.
Yup. The situations you enumerated would fall under “or similar” in my book.
I get that, but why not just put “For Sale, Owner is off to college” or “For sale, horse is too much for current owner.” Ads need to be short to be read. Why not just put honest, relevant information in there? The only real reason a horse would be for sale through the fault of a horse is if it is truly a rogue type horse, which is pretty rare. Everything else can be chalked up to owner’s fault IMO.
Which = no fault of the horse = no fault of his own in the ad.
Sure, but it doesn’t give the buyer much info about what the horse is like, except it’s not a rogue horse. Yay?
It’s no shame to just not click with a horse, or to prefer your other horse to it. I appreciate ads with info, like, " solid trail horse but too forward for this old lady." That at least tells me something.
IDK, I just don’t get the logic in including that line. I’d rather they just put WHY they are selling him and leave the part about whose fault it is out of the ad entirely. It is sort of like putting “Own son of Big Name Sire.” Why not just put “Son of Big Name Sire”?
Yep that is what I am saying. Put the relevant details in. Leave the needless words out. 
I just vetted a horse out and the owner did not admit the horse was on NSAIDs til the vet exam. THAT is something I would have liked to see in the ad or at least in communication leading up to vet visit.
Wait. What?
You were having a horse vetted and the seller/owner mentions---- during the vetting— that, by the way, the horse is on Bute? 
That’s rude af. Sorry you dealt with that!
Right!
Yep that was pretty much it! He was selling the horse fairly cheap for what he was and he probably initially thought I wouldn’t do a vet check. I wasn’t at the vetting but I am thinking maybe the vet led him to believe I was going to pull blood so he told her. Never admitted anything was wrong with the horse. I was upset at first but have chalked it up to lesson learned and thank goodness I didn’t end up with a major problem! Hope the horse ends up in a good place.
That’s something I learned from my vet many years ago: mention up front that I might/could pull blood as part of the PPE. That can sometimes lead to “interesting” disclosures.
Glad things turned out okay for you. Hope it did for that horse, too.
I think for the same reason “Love to laugh”; “looking for a partner in crime”; “work hard & play hard”; and “if there’s anything you want to know, just ask” are so common in online dating profiles. People don’t have a strong grasp on now what information people find important, they’re in a rush & afraid of sounding silly, and hoping “for sale through no fault of his own” makes them sound authoritative.
something I learned from a friend’s misfortune over 3 decades ago: Always pull blood!
you don’t have to have it tested. (her horse went lame after 2 or 3 weeks, ran out of the long term meds…)
What does that even mean “Own son” ? Whose son would he be if not big name sire?
LOL, oldtimey country talk, like mare colt…
Oh, I think it can just mean that the horse isn’t “too much” for his amateur owner. I read it as, “I really like this horse, but need to sell him for unrelated reasons” as opposed to, “I’d really like to sell this horse and get a different one, as this one is too (fill in the blank)”.
YES!! Lol. Once advertised 3 young heifers for sale on Craigslist. Had an older man tell me that they were “tweens” and he would do me a favor by taking them off my hands for what basically amounted to 1/10 of the price they would have fetched as “knackers” at the sale (beef prices were through the roof at the time).
Had to consult with a friend who spoke traditional Shenandoah Valley-ese fluently because I had not the foggiest what the h-e-double-hockey-sticks he meant. Apparently, a tween is a barren heifer. Who’da thunk?
I just came across an ad that reminded me of this thread.
The gist: mid 20s gelding. Pretty color, nice on ground, doesn’t spook. Won’t pick up his back feet. A little weird about being bathed. Likes trail rides. Fun to ride until he throws you. Can be barn sour and will ‘do anything to get back to the barn’. Price: $3k
This is the only horse4sale currently listed on craigslist in my area:
“Hi there I have a 16 y/o gelding he is about 15.2 hands. I havent rode him in about 2 months but hes ons you can grab out of a pasture and ride off. I use him as a trail horse but he has been used for cattle with previous owners. Needs a confident rider as he can be a little sassy if someone doesn’t control him. $18OO obo.”
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