Bone chips

[Fluffypigeon]

Hi all
After some advice, what would you pay for a smart dressage horse with good breeding with bone chips?
Not causing an issue at the moment but already some arthritis in the joint?
Many thanks

 

[Sail_away]

For a young horse, I wouldn’t consider it. If you already know its ridden career is going to be shortened due to arthritis I’d put the work into producing something else. If you are taking the risk I’d expect the horse to be pennies.
For a horse over 10/12 it wouldn’t bother me as long as they were doing the job happily.

 

[ihatework]

That’s too vague to give an opinion.
Age
Exact breeding and damline performance
Current level of training and performance
Temperament and rideability
Which joints affected, size and location of chips
Soundness before and after flexion.
Level you are buying for