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Did anyone see Watchdog last night? It featured a horse dealer from Doncaster who was so unbelievably crooked. He was flogging horses with little or no history & roughly halving their correct ages when selling them. Thankfully the Office of Fair Trading was investigating him & I'm guessing he'll be shut down very shortly. However, I was intrigued to see the 3 women that bought horses off him & were well & truly had over (at least one of the three horses had a vet recommend it was put down) as it really begs the question - why buy horses off this man in the first place? Ok, it appears that he does sell horses that by their description are dirt cheap, but on seeing the horses filmed a blind man could tell you that the horses weren't what he said they were. The first horse was allegedly 12 years old & on veterinary inspection turned out to be well into its 20s. For starters, the horse looked ancient - it's coat was rough, it had a massively dipped back & enormously long teeth. Why do people 1) buy horses when they clearly know very little about them (I promise you - these horses looked rough & far older than they were meant to be) 2) buy horses from a dealer in the first place (they are notoriously crooked & you should only buy from a dealer if you are very experienced & you have the horse fully vetted - you should also negotiate a trial period in case the horse is blatantly not what it was sold as) and 3) the most important by far - not get the horse vetted prior to purchase. I was utterly dumbstruck by the programme - I do have sympathy with those people taken in but they clearly didn't know what they were doing in the first place when buying the animals, hence getting bitten on the backside. Why do people act so stupidly over matters like this & risk large amounts of money like this?