Buying a horse with sarcoids

It won’t ‘fail’ a vetting but treatment for the sarcoids would be excluded from your insurance if you have to submit the vetting report.

Whether it’s a deal breaker is a personal decision. If they’re not likely to interfere with tack or the horses movement and the horse is perfect in every other way you’d likely get it at a heavily reduced price due to the sarcoids. If they’re aggressive they can spread or cause future issues, equally sometimes they’re fairly innocuous and cause no problems or can be removed and don’t return.

It’s really a question of how much you like the horse, how fair you think the price is and if you’re happy to take a gamble on the sarcoids or not.
 
Way back (1985) I took a gamble on an Apaloosa with an angleberry sarcoid on it's sheath which my lovely vet just banded with elastic, waited 2 weeks then a quick twist and off it came. Did not return, and horse was worth the gamble. Would I do the same now - absolutely not!
 
I don’t think I would knowingly buy a horse with them but sometimes they pop up on a young horse with an immature immune system and then go away again. If the horse is really really cheap to buy and not grey but it’s a heck of a gamble.
 
Won't 'fail' a vetting. Whether it would be a dealbreaker or not, would depend on the type and condition of the sarcoids.
 
It will be a note on the vetting and an insurance exclusion.

Sarcoid doesn’t automatically make a horse not fit for purpose.

Main thing is type of sarcoid, location and if the horse has a recurrent history.

I’m fairly non alarmed by sarcoid and it is not something that would automatically rule a horse out for me (but I would rub my hands together as a very useful bargaining chip 😜). I’ve bought a couple in the past with sarcoid with no long term issue.

Most sarcoid isn’t an issue. But when they become an issue it is horrid, expensive, invasive and it’s a risk you either do or don’t take.
 
ihatework said:
It will be a note on the vetting and an insurance exclusion.

Sarcoid doesn’t automatically make a horse not fit for purpose.

Main thing is type of sarcoid, location and if the horse has a recurrent history.

I’m fairly non alarmed by sarcoid and it is not something that would automatically rule a horse out for me (but I would rub my hands together as a very useful bargaining chip 😜). I’ve bought a couple in the past with sarcoid with no long term issue.

Most sarcoid isn’t an issue. But when they become an issue it is horrid, expensive, invasive and it’s a risk you either do or don’t take.
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Ive attached the photos above, the owner advised that the scabby one is from where she knocked it getting up
The horse is going for 4.5k, reduced by 300 if I buy it and sort it myself, is this reasonable?
 
horseowner2602 said:
Ive attached the photos above, the owner advised that the scabby one is from where she knocked it getting up
The horse is going for 4.5k, reduced by 300 if I buy it and sort it myself, is this reasonable?
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I’d want more than £300 off for that little ulcerating one as it’s quite possible that will need treatment.

But I suppose it depends on whether the 4.5k is a competitive price for the horse in the first place.

Put it this way, I knocked 1.5k off the last horse I bought with a larger but non ulcerating sarcoid, and he wasn’t expensive to start with.
 
It cost me about £600 to have one lazered off, then another one popped up a couple of years later. That was a few years ago so probably much more now, but having 2 done at the same time wont be twice as expensive. I wouldn't buy another with sarcoids.
 
Crickey thy should be offering a lot more than £300 off! I’d offer less than half to be honest, they’ll struggle to sell unless heavily discounted but personally no I’d not buy one.
 
I’m open minded to sarcoids….but must be reflected in the price….i got £1000 off the asking price of my current horse 10 years ago following vet’s advice on the cost of treatment….so I’d say you have some room for bargaining here.
 
This time of the year too, flys will have a field day on the sarcoids, especially the one that looks red. I'd personally walk the other way, but of course it's your decision whether you take the risk. Wishing you the best of luck x
 
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