might have a new horse [im mental]

[marmite]

god why am i so crazy basically one of my managers at work has an older brother who bought a horse for his daughter after having it on trial for 2 months [at owners yard] had lessons ect with it horse was fine.
Bought said horse got it home and within days turns into pysco from hell rearing bucking you name it not been nice to handle and girl is basically terrified of it.
Nothing on vetting shows any problems had it scanned x-rayed you name it.

They are considering putting it down unless they can figure out whats going on with it.

Cue to tonight at work said manager asks if i would consider taking it on for a couple of months to see if i can do anything with it?

I dont know if i can not knowing the horse or rider who is only 13 im wondering if its worth giving it a shot they are willing to move it to my village pay all costs ect and if at any point i feel i cant do anything with it or i dont want to risk my life i can send it back.


What should i do they have had people come try it to sell and it has dropped most of the riders they knocked the price down a hell of alot to what they paid for it.
The only thing they can think of is having it pts and i cant bare the thought of that it was so calm and 100% at previous yard they brought it home and it turned into mental marvin?

Only thing i can think is maybe serious change of hard feed,or an injury they didnt know about in transit ect but apparently everything has been double checked.

Am i mental to think i should give it a shot?

 

[Happy Horse]

With no disrespect to you or your riding they would be much better to send it to a professional yard who are used to dealing with this kind of behaviour and more importantly fully insured. I wouldn't be willing to get on someone elses mistake for any money.

 

[Bossanova]

I'd get it back to the yard where it was before and see if it was more settled there- seems odd it was so sudden when he changed yards

 

[ruscara]

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Am i mental to think i should give it a shot?

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Yes. I believe you would be. From what you say, I think it would take a professional to help this horse. Something is very wrong, poor thing. I do not think that moving yet again would help in the slightest.

 

[Super_Kat]

I'm afraid I'm inclined to agree with everyone else, send it to a professional.

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

It's got to got to a specialist to be sorted out, you could get yourself seriously injured & then you won't be able to look after your own horse.
Out of interest when they had the horse vetted did they have a blood sample taken? If so get that tested, you may find something in the sample to calm the animal down. That's the whole reason for taking & storing a sample from the vetting, incase something like this occurrs.
Either way don't get involved, you don't know the owners, he's a relative of your manager, let them sort it out...the potential for injury is too great.

 

[Christmas_Kate]

Yes, i think you would be mad to take this on. Is there any chance it was doped at the previous yard? It wuldnt have taken someone much to dope it on a regular basis.

They need to get it to a professional yard. Many places will buy a horse like this and deal with it. Try the back of H&H for adverts of 'problem horses wanted'. They need to get shot of it before it does serious damage.

 

[samp]

It all sounds a bit sus. I think from the complete change there is a possibility the horse had been doped or soemthing at the previous yard. I have been there with a horse I purchased and no delaer woould tocuh it and to high a risk to sell on so we had it PTS

 

[pixie]

Yeah, it definately sounds like it was doped at the owner's yard, seeing as it was calm for the entire time it was there.
Whilst horses do need time to adjust to new surroundings, I wouldnt imagine this would cause a complete personality change.

Did they get blood taken when the vetting was done?