Take care when buying a rocking horse from Debbie Rule of Rocking Horses Rule

This tale goes back 6 years - When we were left looking after our newly born grand daughter and this started a 2.5 year battle with Social Services but this battle hasn't really stopped - its still on going.  Prior to the birth of our grand daughter I was employed as an accountant for a College so had a well paid job and as I had always wanted a Rocking Horse as a child decided to indulge my fantasy so wanting the best I wanted an Ayres so I contacted Debbie Rule at Rocking Horses Rule at the time she was doing paint jobs on Rocking Horses but not original but they were done so very well.  She informed me that she had an Ayres coming in from abroad and that I could buy this horse so we agreed a fee of £1,000 and I paid for the horse - then she said why don't I have it restored at the same time but by this time I had decided to take early retirement on health grounds (so I could care for and fight Social Services) but bang went my big wage and so it was arranged that I could pay over 3 months once completed as I was unsure whether she could restore him to original.  We agreed a fee of £650 which included top of the range leather bridle saddle etc.  She told me he had arrived and said she wished she hadn't sold him to me now (I thought it was part joke and part to reassure me he was a good buy). She also said that she would carefully strip off his layers of old paint to see if anything remained underneath and take photos and keep me up to date, work was due to be completed that Christmas then she asked due to work load if she could put off starting work on him till the new year and I agreed.  Then I never heard anything off her - no emails, no photos.  So it was April and I was about to say 'look I will just have the horse back as is'  then she contacted me and said he is finished now pay me and sent the bill reduced by £50 as she put on tack that was of an inferior quality but I had not agreed to this.  As I was just glad he was finished and she did send me finished pictures of him and he did look lovely.  So I sent the first instalment which she sent back and said she had waited long enough and wanted payment in full, I sent the payment again and again she sent it back and I had a letter from Trading Standards stating that as I had not paid the full asking price the seller Debbie Rule was going to sell my horse to recoup the money and she was going to keep it all as she was entitled to and I told her I had a bill of sale for the horses which I paid so he was mine and she took me to court and she had added on £50 a month storage fees.  I was ordered to pay the restoration costs because I agreed that I owed them.  A couple of months later I had the money in full tried sending her emails asking for bank details and suitable time to collect she didn't respond so I got my husband to ring her and she said she had SOLD him and that was that and put the phone down.  Now I should have sued her but at the time we were in and out of court over my grand daughter - in one week we were in 5 different courts before five different Judges so was a very fraught time and I couldn't think of anything else.  

So if you want to pay for a horse of Debbie Rule but not actually get it - then go ahead and purchase one off her.  What I have put here is the absolute truth and I can prove it - so I have no fears of court action etc.