Brightwells sale yesterday

...we were also surprised by lot number 64 Blue star, this horse has a very good SJ record and has been xc schooling and was orginally entered for the eventer sale on Saturday. They actually showed it during Thursdays SJ sale where it reached a highish price but did not sell. We thought that this was odd because surely with a decent record, the horse would sell for a much higher price as a proven SJ horse rather than as an unproven eventer?- so why enter for the eventer rather than the SJ sale, when they clearly wanted a high price for it?:confused:
 
DarkHorseB said:
I've been told by a couple of vets that xrays are really only useful in many cases if viewed over time for changes.
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I *think* what x-rays show rather well is OCD chips (and sometimes the lesions left by the removal of said chips, or not if the vet was very skillful) - OCD is the scourge of performance horse breeding and has been for a few years now. I understand that performance horses with OCD are now the norm rather than the exception and I also understand that in Europe, they are mostly dismissed as inconsequential i.e. if your young horse has chips, you just get them removed and all is well...

Interestingly, there seems to be relatively little understanding (i.e. proof) of whether OCD is hereditary. Many chose to believe that it is mostly due to environmental factors, feeding and exercise regimes mostly - and if anyone was at the sales watching those overproduced 2 year olds looking fully grown when they really shouldn't and jumping the top of the wings over and over... then you might think they have a point. But as long as we don't know whether there is a hereditary factor as well, then it would seem prudent to abstain from breeding from affected animals.

However, lot 15, the 2 year old colt which sold for £50,000 on Thursday (and presumably will end up as a breeding animal), it has been confirmed to me by someone who did see the x-rays, had a visible chip in a hock and a splint to boost. Beautiful animal, lovely pedigree. Someone decided it was worth the risk...
 
Halfstep said:
lovely grey Crossing Louis went for 24.
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Didn't stay for the dressage horses as not my thing, but saw him being schooled in the collecting ring on Thursday afternoon. A most lovely and generous animal, who was using himself beautifully despite being ridden most horrendously overbent. From the second he entered the school, his rider has his nose pretty much on his chest, way behind the vertical. I watched for a time, because he is a spectacular animal and was able to observe that he could obviously be quite strong and that was the way his rider felt she could keep him in check. Shame, I thought, imagine what he would be like if he wasn't in a headlock... then I found him in the programme and realised he is only 4 years old and I thought something way too rude to write here :mad:
 
Did anyone see Florette's xrays? Nice little 3yrs event mare we were bidding on. Only went for 4800 but my friend had just bought her next dressage horse the week before and was on a v limited budget of 4.5k for brightwells - she's kicking herself now!!

Ludwig Von Bayern was my WOW horse that night. Excellent hock action, incredibly pretty and a darn sight quieter than poor Crossing Louis who was more than a little nervy!

Oh and Lot 101. YOWZA i got there late so no chance to look at any xrays would have liked to see his!
 
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