Buying an older horse for competition?

The one bout of laminitis would not bother me at all, and almost a bonus point that they've been open about it.
To concur with the poster above when I viewed the 15 year old I subsequently bought I spoke my daughter's coach and said I was a bit perturbed at paying 5 figures for a 15 year old pony and her response was was that in her experience things often go wrong between 10-12 and that if this pony was still happily doing BE at 15 she'd have no worries re soundness.
 
minesadouble said:
The one bout of laminitis would not bother me at all, and almost a bonus point that they've been open about it.
To concur with the poster above when I viewed the 15 year old I subsequently bought I spoke my daughter's coach and said I was a bit perturbed at paying 5 figures for a 15 year old pony and her response was was that in her experience things often go wrong between 10-12 and that if this pony was still happily doing BE at 15 she'd have no worries re soundness.
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That’s encouraging! I’ve just seen another one advertised for 12.5k which is also 15 but it has won a lot and done a lot of PC champs etc, I must admit my eyes did baulk a bit at the price tag 😳
 
Little update, we tried him and loved him 💕 we are going to have a second viewing and try him round a course of SJ at an arena hire with our instructor to test the brakes, steering etc as they only had a couple of poly jumps at home, and speak to the farrier about the feet. So keeping everything crossed 🤞
 
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