Can anyone recommend a vet in Perthshire and transporters

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I have just put down a deposit on a clydesdale mare, subject to vetting and am flying to Scotland to see her next week and need to arrange a vetting.

Yes I sound mad doing this unseen, but I have several very long conversations with the owner, she is exactly what we are looking for and she had other people wanting to see her - clydes like this are very difficult to come by.

If anyone knows of a good equine vet in this area, I would be very grateful if you could let me know.

I will also need to transport her down to Essex, again does anyone know of a company that has an excellent reputation that can do this - we want quality transport not cheap as she is a big mare - 16.3 and we don't want her squashed into a tiny space or stressed etc.

Hope you can help me out on this one.

As soon as I know she is definately ours, I will bore you with lots of details and pics.
 
How exciting! Is this the mare you mentioned to me? I don't think you are mad at all - the heavy horse world seems to run on trust and honesty, if I were you I would have done exactly the same. Julie Magnus (based in Newmarket) collected Ella from Reading for me. Ella is the same sort of size as the one you are hoping to buy and was not an experienced traveller. Julie gave her plenty of room (double the size for a normal horse) and Ella travelled brilliantly. Julie gave me regular updates during the journey by text and Ella arrived as cool as a cucumber. Would highly recommend her.
 
i can highly recommend this chap for the vetting. he's my vet and really knows his stuff.
ask for hugh
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http://www.lochlevenequine.co.uk/staff.htm

i'd go with eric gillie for horse transport
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http://www.ericgillie.co.uk/

i've seen the horse advertised. looks really nice, good luck
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Personally Im not a huge fan of Gillies, however they are the biggest transporters in Scotland and therefore are easiest for arranging as they go everywhere. I think they can work out cheapest as well if you can get in with a load of other horses. The lorries are very nice, just didnt like the fact one of my horses seemed to take about 3 hours extra to get to me (even though they were coming direct, think driver stopped off for lunch), the driver didnt seem in the least bit horsey and there was no groom, the horse had banged a hock at some point during the journey or possibly when loading which left a scar and the horse also very thirsty and hungry on arrival so I assume no water was given (certainly no haynet was evident). This isnt a rant, just pointing out what happened with my use of them. Others seem to love them.
 
And a fifth for Eric Gillie. I was very impressed, they bought my boy down from Loch Lomond to Reading. They did say that they would not get hay nets while travelling, but I was so impressed when my boy came off the back of the (very posh!!) lorry, he looked like he had come from 10 miles down the road not the other end of the country.
I was also impressed that the driver was a day late- sounds odd- but the traffic made him run late and he had another horse to drop off further down the country than mine. He decided to keep my boy and this other horse at one of their overnight stop offs so this horse wouldnt be by itself. This really impressed me, as that is something that I had worried about for my boy.
Good luck with the vetting
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Jamie Gartside at Tay Valley Vets is my vet and he knows his stuff and is such a nice guy into the bargain.

If you want their phone number PM me!
 
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