Advice needed, what would you do?

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so the background is that About two years ago I got my first ever part-loan. I looked after her for around 6 months, loved her to bits and she taught me loads. The share only ended because the mare had on/off lameness that got progressively worse, until the owner revealed he knew about this prior to loaning her to me and thus retired her, with only occasional hacks.

So today I came across an advert for her to be part loaned again. From the advert I can read that the new owner has had her since January and is now bringing her back into work. She is advertised as an all rounder, forward going with a huge jump. Whilst this is true I know she is likely to go lame within the coming months.
I dont think the current owner would know of her lameness, because her old owner is unlikely to mention to a buyer, he never mentioned it to me as a loaner and I saw other similar things with other horses. He was not the nicest I have met for many reasons!

So my question is, Do I message the owner and tell her what I know? Would you want to know? Would you message her?

I am concerned for the mare as I really loved her, she was a sweetie; I still have lots of photos of her and she is still very local to me too. She's up on preloved.
However I feel like maybe its not my business. For all I know she could have been treated (he never had a vet to her though), or the new owner could be perfectly aware of her past issues. I don't like sticking my nose in or causing trouble, but I am of course worried about her.

I hope you can all understand an hopefully advise me.. :)
 
would you be able to explain that you used to loan her and would quite like to see her again (without misleading and giving the impression you plan to loan again) and see if you could arrange things so you meet the owner in person? It'll be easier to figure out if they know already and avoid being too intrusive.
 
things may have resolved/been dealt with, she has been in the new home 5 months so if the problem still existed I would have thought they would know by now. They also already own the mare so it is not like you will be stopping them taking her on, I would keep out. They will have to bring her into work to see how much she can cope with anyway and a vet can not do a lameness workup on a sound horse. So nothing can be done till she goes lame IF she does
 
blitznbobs said:
I'm curious how do you know she's going to go lame?
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When I shared her previously it was revealed later to me that he brought the horse as companion/broodmare as she had trouble with her leg and couldn't be sound in work.

She never went lame immdediately but when she got into full fitness she would gradually get lamer...
 
I'm afraid it is no longer your problem. Hopefully she has a nice owner who will call the vet if necessary but you cannot peer into your crystal ball and say she will go lame. Try to move on. :-)
 
Barnacle said:
would you be able to explain that you used to loan her and would quite like to see her again (without misleading and giving the impression you plan to loan again) and see if you could arrange things so you meet the owner in person? It'll be easier to figure out if they know already and avoid being too intrusive.
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I would do this. You could subtly ask if she still has any problems with lameness (as you had to stop riding her because of this and would have loved to keep doing so) and see what the owner knows. However, I would not in anyway say that the horse has a chronic problem and will go lame again - as others have said, she may have had treatment/ some things do come right on their own/ there could be legal issues to stating this (could you stand up in court as a witness and swear that the horse was permanently unsound?; have you seen the vet's diagnosis and prognosis?)/ and as someone else said - there is no crystal ball.
 
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