Failing a 5* vetting!

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GeorgieGurl

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Our horse is for sale for £7000 however just failed the 5* vetting, due to conformation issues causing other smaller issues. She competes perfectly up to 95cm and never had any comments in any dressage tests. Though they, the potential buyers, have not defiantly pulled out, we know they will. What should we do now? Should we call up the other people interested? How much should we lower the price by? :eek:
 
im no expert but £7000 for a horse that competes at 95cm.
seems steep!
buy i suppose it depends on the safety of the horse and how consultant it is.


how much to drop the price totally depends on the problems.
 
horses dont pass or fail. they are either recommended as being suitable for purchase for certain activities or not. So if purchaser wants horse for showing and it has conformational faults it will not be fit for purchase. However if purchaser says they want it for hacking then it will be. So, it depends what your purchaser wanted to do with horse and what exactly the problems with the horse were.
 
horses dont pass or fail. they are either recommended as being suitable for purchase for certain activities or not. So if purchaser wants horse for showing and it has conformational faults it will not be fit for purchase. However if purchaser says they want it for hacking then it will be. So, it depends what your purchaser wanted to do with horse and what exactly the problems with the horse were.
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This ^^^.

It can also depend on how the buyer interprets what the vet has said as to which way they choose to go.

I knew a horse intended for dressage and the examining vet said it had a club foot, then went into a long speech about operations, corrective farriery etc. Turns out the horse had knocked the front of the foot off on hard ground so it temporalily was straight accross the front of one foot.
2 senior vets then overuled the first vet but the buyer had it in their head by then that there was a long term problem when there wasn't.

Vettings are an interpretation as to whether the horse is suitable for the purpose intended or not IMHO.
 
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