5 stage vetting on a 3yr old

[Irishcobs]

My friend is in the process of buying a 3yr old. She wants to have him vetted. He has been backed but not been sat on recently. I don't no if he lunges but I would hope so. They don't have a school but I guess they can use a field. They don't have anywhere to trot him up either. Could a vet do a 5 stage on it, or would they only do a 2 stage?

 

[dwi]

I would have thought so if he lunges? Daisy was going to be lunged for her vetting but thankfully I managed to be ther so I could ride her for it

 

[GTs]

There should be no problem - they can trot him on the road, and chase him around the field to hear his heart/lungs.

I would also never ride for the vetting, it is one of the reasons I recommend to use an agent, get them to ride and you watch.

 

[SpruceRI]

When I sold my just backed 3 yr old she was vetted.

I had to lunge (unridden) her fast for the wind/heart check. As you can imagine the pony got rather excited as I never made her canter fast for 5 mins solid before. Thought her antics might put the buyers off, but luckily it didn't!

Vet also checked eyes, teeth, did flexion tests. We were out in the middle of a field though, so she couldn't do hard surface trot ups, but everything else was done.

 

[peanut]

I had a 5 stage vetting when I bought my horse as a 3 yo. She was lunged rather than ridden.

 

[JamilaParr]

mine was checked all over muscles absolutely everything u could think of. and as he was unbacked he was just loose schooled to check lameness and then his heart/breathing i suppose they could do that in a field.
i think they might be able to do flexion tests in a field but it's usually concrete they need for the actual trot up...

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[htobago]

I had a full 5-stage vetting (including 22 x-rays) done on my boy when I bought him as a 2yo.

Even though he was very young (he had only just turned 2) and had only ever done in-hand showing, I made it very clear to the vet that he would be expected to be a sport-horse later on and needed to have the conformation/soundness of a serious athlete.

A proper 5-stage is quite a tough process to put a young horse through, but necessary and worth it. Isn't there a nearby road they can use for the trot-up?

 

[Ciss]

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I had a full 5-stage vetting (including 22 x-rays) done on my boy when I bought him as a 2yo.

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Becuase we were having him licenced with WPCS, our Section C colt had a full 5-stage when we bought him last year even though he hadn't been taught to lunge. As a result the vet and the sellers agent had to chase him round a (rather muddy) field for 40 mins and I think they were more tired than he was by the end of it!

We didn't have X-rays done though as I think OCD is probably somewhat rare (to say the least of it) in native breed colts

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A proper 5-stage is quite a tough process to put a young horse through, but necessary and worth it. Isn't there a nearby road they can use for the trot-up?

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My colt was trotted up on a quiet private road and they also did the same thing for us when we first went to see him -- but I've seen the same thing happen in really high class warmblood studs in Europe so there's no stigma attached to doing it that way!