Has anyone had any disastrous/really disappointing viewings when looking for a horse to buy? We are on month 10 of the new horse hunt and losing the will. Big budget, reasonable expectations, very experienced. We just can't find the one, and 95% of the problem so far has been sellers who don't tell the truth! We had one (very badly) failed vetting which was a huge disappointment to both us and the lovely seller. Other than that we've had three viewings of horses with terrible scars (undisclosed) which would be immediately a no in the sphere we compete in (sellers aware of this). Two of these sellers had tried to hide the scars unsuccessfully. We had one where the seller couldn't even be arsed to get the horse out of the field before we arrived; I don't care about normal levels of hair and grot (it's winter after all) but horse had been standing in a muck heap up to its hocks, stank and clearly hadn't been out of the field for months. They couldn't even find any tack to use, and tried to force on a bridle with a tiny bit. We said no thanks at that point and left. We looked at a connie advertised as a "dressage superstar" which the seller couldn't even get to budge and when it did it was lame behind. It's getting to giving up point now. This is both private sellers and producers. We've been very specific with sellers before travelling about what we do/need, we are not looking for "perfection" on a budget. I understand it works both ways and there are some equally awful buyers out there; has it just become more common to try and get one over on people to achieve a sale!?!