Oh well... £250 down and back to the drawing board

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Well after 4 months of searching i found a horse i actually liked and guess what... it failed the vetting :( Not really upset just annoyed as i was really looking forward to getting back into riding

Bit of a pointless post and no doubt hundreds of you have been in this position before but i am just feeling a little dis-heartened now. :( I suppose best to loose £250 now than have to spend out thousands a later date.

Back to the searching... hate it !!
 
Oh no poor you!
Frustrating isn't it?
That happened to me a few years back when I found a cracking horse.
Got him vetted and he failed straight away as he had a heart murmur.

Something else will come along.

Hugs
 
Look at it this way a full vetting is over £500 here do could have been worse! I'm bored today, can do some Internet trawling!
 
Bustalot said:
He came up quite badly lame after the flexion tests. Frustrating.
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Think positively - it would have cost you a huge amount more if you had bought him and then needed to medicate his hocks every 6 months until he was knackered and unrideable.

Look at it as a lucky escape ! That said, I do understand how you feel, it has happened to me several times and is disheartening.

good luck , keep searching.
 
A few have failed on that. A friend bought what was originally a £125000 racing Arab for Pennies due to failing this on the vetting yet he is still fine and healthy.

I hate to say it but I had a horrible feeling you were going to say it failed on that.
 
As jojo said, what are you looking for? Not a general "15hh bay" but specifics if you could?

Someone will know of something I'd imagine.
 
Well it least you had it done. We had a horse vetted that had bad eyes, but without the vetting you wouldnt have known and they wanted 6k for it.
 
Oh dear, I know that feeling too. Sorry OP.

It can take such a long time to find a horse that seems right, and lots of calls, petrol, emotions and a few bum steers. And you try not to get your hopes up before the vetting but that often doesn't work and you start planning what colour numnah he/she will look good in etc etc.

I've had about a 50/50 failure rate on 5* vettings (am hoping that I'm not just a terrible judge of hosses!!) which is often a flexion test issue. I also know there are a fair few people who don't agree with flexion tests.

I'd get a 5* done for anything over £5k and you quite often have to for insurance purposes, but for less than that I've done a 3* and had no problems.

But as you say, better to know now than after lots of money and stress taking what may be an unsound horse. If you really were set on that horses, maybe look into flexion testing in more detail and ask the vet for info., but I'd tend to steer clear as there are so many horses out there. They cost so much in time and effort, it's better to take time now to get the right one with no question marks, than make a mistake down the line.

Am sure we will be hearing some good news for you anon :)
 
Depending on what you're paying and what you want to do, flexion test results can be the least important part of a vetting. My friend's horse failed the vetting, but he bought him anyway. The horse did all local riding club stuff without problems for the next five years that I knew him. Luckily the vet who did it was a mature vet with lots of experience (and a horse judge at county show level) and he said not to worry about the result - even though it had failed it would be fine for what it was wanted for..
 
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