I'll be watching this thread with interest. A few months back, I bought back a homebred horse after his future appeared to be less than certain. He had been very successful as a 4 yr old, (I sold him as a foal) then was sold to an experienced yard to go eventing. Because he was naturally a "fatty" he was kept in a stable, with no feed to slim him down. When I finally got roped in, he was a weaver,, cribbed and windsucked, none of which he had done before. The damage is done, he has those habits for life now, although he is hugely improved when stabled, and doesn't do any of these things out at grass. When I do decide to sell him, of course his full history will be given, and a home chosen very carefully. It took five weeks for this horse's guts to start working properly, and he is now starting to look like he used to. Obviously he is worth a great deal less than he was a year ago, so I shall probably get a competition record on him to help sell him. He has never shown any signs of colic, although, we were pretty sure that he had hind gut ulcers when he came, as he was desperately uncomfortable in his lumbar region, and that, apparently, is the sign for hind gut ulcers.