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Does anyone know anything about foreign vettings. Are they acceptable in Uk, do they cover the same things as our 5 star vettings, are they accepted by insurance companies? I have just been caught out big time on a horse with a foreign vetting that was supposed to be clean, horse has abnormality in retina, ringbone, severe and huge windgalls and is lame in walk!!! Staffordshire dealer assured me all was ok, which is obviously not true!
 
Never had any problems with foreign vettings and all the imported horses have had to go through full vettings to be insured before their journeys to the UK.

However, do remember that any vetting is literally only present and correct on the day its done. Since the horse appears to have been bought from a dealer in the UK, it could be old?

Did you read the vetting certificate yourself? Was it in english? ;p There was a massive spate of people passing on foreign horses with fake passports and paperwork in the native languages... english buyers werent having things checked over and not quite getting what they thought. Probably the most amusing one we came across was a girl who had the paper work for her apparently impecibly bred mare (the papers were for a complete differently coloured gelding many years younger than the horse in question).
 
Things are improving in Spain with the new paperwork and micro chips but many horse we know have incorrect papers .A person in our yard has a gelding who is at least 20 has a heart mummer yet he passed a vet and his papers state his age at 12 !!
 
I have bought horses from Ireland and had them insured with UK companies based on the vettings I had done over there. In saying that I used to live there so have been able to use my old vet to perform the vettings and once he recommended a vet when he could not attend himself. Obviously the certs were in English and the vetting was the same as a UK 5 stage.
 
Foreign vettings IME are not as detailed as ours and some foreign vets seem to pass anything!! They are alot more lenient than ours and I know several cases that sound like yours.

I would never accept a foreign vetting and if buying over here from a dealer or private individual would still have another vetting done.

If buying abroad I fly my vet out to vet the horse.
 
Just be aware that vettings from europe will not declare certain things on vetting that would have to be declared over here.

ie stable vices and things like tie back opps
 
I've heard of cases where foreign vets have passed x-rays then the insurance company's vet has rejected insurance on the basis of those X-rays.
 
All my horses have been bought in Germany, they have all been vetted by german vets and passed, i havent had them vetted by uk vets so i dont know if they would have found anything different but i have never had a problem with any of them that would have been covered in a vetting.
 
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