Potential horse- i need opinion (very long)

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Okay i went to try a horse yesterday. He is 11 y/o and 16hh TB with Primitive Rising bloodlines.
Owner has had him 3 years ish and started eventing him the first year. Second year just did dressage (won Northern Area Championships) as girl also bought young horse to bring on. Third year he has barely been used as girl now at uni and focusing on young horse to this horse is just left really and hacked out every now and then.
He hasn't been clipped as not being used and also has no top line or muscle (but have seen photos of him in full fitness and is stunning) but is a lovely horse.

Anyway i rode him yesterday after girl had ridden him and i really liked him. he jumped brill considering he hasnt jumped in a year and is responsive to you leg, it took me a while to get used to it as on my pony i have my leg on all the time so we were a bit speedy at first. He is a dream to ride, flowing paces and just goes into a beautiful outline. I also took him for a walk/trot round fields and he was fine, just a bit speedy walking towards home. He is quite forward and i little strong but i never ever felt nervous or frightened. I really liked him. He is a XC machine too.

Anyway, how long do you think it would take to get him into full fitness and build his muscles up? I would like to event him and he fits the bill having done Novice with previous owner and 100 with current (all beit not since a couple years ago). Im going back up with my instructor wednesday to see what she thinks.


Sorry its so long, Ben&Jerrys to anyone who has bothered to read my novel
 
I'd say about 3 to 5 months if totally unfit, to be fit enough to event and not risk injury, thsts what id do anyway. walk 6 weeks, then introduce trot and build from there
 
I'm a bit dubious of horses who've had time off.
Im sure it's genuine, but if you do purchase him,'I'd suggest a very thorough vetting and fully insure for loss of use for at least 12 months.
I'm only saying this, as whilst they are probably genuine, he may have an existing 'healed' injury. I know plenty of people (including my own mum) whove had this heartbreak. If you saw my mums youngster - presented with low grade lameness, bottomed out via MRI which revealed soft tissue damage from old injury. In his case too damaged to treat, so turned away for 4 months, and went back to the dealer (sound on the lunge) but any prolonged work would have caused further lameness.
Regards bringing back into work, try searching on here as there are a few historical threads on his topic.
He sounds lovely, good luck :)
 
Echo what the last poster said about previous injury but as long as you have a thorough vetting you should be fine.

He sounds like a lovely horse! :) you will quite quickly get used to the speed of him!!
We're just bringing our girl back into work after time off due to Cushings and lameness - we're just bringing her back into work now, she's had around 6 months of hacking out walking, doing hills and roadwork and she's getting very giddy now and we think once she's had her feet done she's ready to introduce trot again :)
K x
 
Well one option would be to get the sellers vet to do a five stage vetting including the seller giving him permission to reveal all details from the records to you, then you would know for sure what's gone on since they had him .
I did this with my last purchase .
I think 12 weeks will have him well on the way to fitness .
Hope it all works out
 
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