I agree with the ulcers, as when he's stabled away from home for a night he's lovely and nice in field etc good to tack up away from home no issues with girth. He almost thrives from a good telling off, he will launch at you try to bite you and then hide in the corner as if to say '***** this is...
My horse is a 16.3 chestnut ISH, He's 6 yrs old and is out eventing around BE90/100. He's one of the best horses I have ever ridden and I do believe we will go quite far BUT... in the stable he's a monster!!
He launches at you over the stable door, tries to bite you, will turn on the door and...
My vet has been out this morning, to cut a long story short, my horse has no clinical signs of wobblers, the tail pulling test suggested some weakness behind, but not neurological? My vet said that the vet doing the 5 stage would have come to the conclusion of wobblers because he plaits behind...
He hasn't got wobbly back legs does not trip, can easily do flying changes and does on a regular basis, the vet based it on the fact he can pull the horse sideways by its tail in walk, he passed the flex ion tests too! I have a good relationship with my vet and she saw me riding him only a week...
I immediately called my vet, who has dealt will all my horses, I will call another vet as I'm curious to what they will say I spoke to a lot of people on the yard and they were all quite stunned as they know the horse very well!
I called my vet straight away, I was mega paranoid! She knows my horses very well, she was a little puzzled as to why he would say that. The vet rang the potential buyer first to see if they wanted to carry on the vetting, obviously they said no.
i have my 10yr old Dutch warm blood gelding up for sale, I have owned him two and a half years and could put good money down on him passing a 5 stage vetting, he's never lame, sick or sorry ever!! The vet came to see him, trotted him up once, walked him twice, pulled his tail over too one side...