Selling a horse with sn existing problem?

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Napping doesn’t bother me unless linked to pain. No way of knowing. If she’s happy to hack then she has a value. Many older people don’t work or have flexibility and don’t need to school in the arena/dark. Insurance won’t cover stifle if on a vetting so I think you’re looking at a price someone will pay without a vetting. 2 thousand and choose a suitable home. As others say, she’s very pretty.
 
Lucky Snowball said:
Napping doesn’t bother me unless linked to pain. No way of knowing. If she’s happy to hack then she has a value. Many older people don’t work or have flexibility and don’t need to school in the arena/dark. Insurance won’t cover stifle if on a vetting so I think you’re looking at a price someone will pay without a vetting. 2 thousand and choose a suitable home. As others say, she’s very pretty.
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I was thinking, with the information given, around £2k.

However, the OP seems very reluctant to elaborate on the napping, which makes me think the horse might have had a bit of a broncing fit, especially as she says she stopped schooling immediately afterwards.

I'm beginning to suspect that something went a bit wrong, and that the issues in the school are more of a problem than the sticky stifle.

Happy to be proved wrong by the OP! 🙂
 
southerncomfort said:
I was thinking, with the information given, around £2k.

However, the OP seems very reluctant to elaborate on the napping, which makes me think the horse might have had a bit of a broncing fit, especially as she says she stopped schooling immediately afterwards.

I'm beginning to suspect that something went a bit wrong, and that the issues in the school are more of a problem than the sticky stifle.

Happy to be proved wrong by the OP! 🙂
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OP can you expand on the comments you made earlier in respect of napping?
 
Well the only thing you can really get for under £1000 these days is a non ridden companion or something unbroken under 12.2. It's not even that easy to find OTTBs that cheap anymore.

Honestly, I wouldn't blink twice at £3,500 for one of this sort. The stifle and the napping could both be sorted with time and the right care, and you could say 'Well it could be a write off' about lots of things on LOTS of horses.
 
I think if the OP is still reading then its worth getting that stifle joint x-rayed to confirm there is nothing skeletal which is the issue. If there isn't then it is hopefully sticking stifles / upward fixation of the patella which is pretty common in youngsters. My next step would be an experienced bodyworker who can advise on a physio programme aimed to strengthen weak muscle areas. If I needed to sell I would work very hard at that programme!

If the pony still isn't happy schooling after a decent physio programme then its likely to be pain somewhere.
 
IrishMilo said:
Well the only thing you can really get for under £1000 these days is a non ridden companion or something unbroken under 12.2. It's not even that easy to find OTTBs that cheap anymore.

Honestly, I wouldn't blink twice at £3,500 for one of this sort. The stifle and the napping could both be sorted with time and the right care, and you could say 'Well it could be a write off' about lots of things on LOTS of horses.
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I get your point but I remember OPs other thread and the horse struggles out hacking.
 
I’m not sure that we’ll ever get the full low down on the napping from the OP.

I certainly wouldn't gamble £3.5k on a horse with a known physical issue which also naps in the arena unless I got the horse fully assessed first.

A horse which can cope going in straight lines but which throws in the towel when being asked to keep going in circles on a soft surface screams some soft of ligament or tendon issue to me, which may or not be in addition to the stifle issue.

I’d gamble no more than £1k and be prepared to lose the lot. Maybe the horse is just green and weak and will come good, but maybe not.
 
My 16 y old loan horse, 16.3 Clydie x whose very good at dressage, has just been diagnosed with mild locking stifle. His owner told me on the weekend.
He's going to have an injection, in a couple of months time, but the vet said hacking out is great for him, and doing so much of it through his career has kept him going well; and that I am to keep up the arena work I do with him. Use it lose it, she basically said.

He finds rein-back hard [does this odd 'ballerina' stretch-out with the left hind] so now we've decided lots of forwards, and laterals, and no backwards.

I did this with him this week in our schooling session and he was great.

Vet said almost 30 per cent of horses have some form of this?
So obvs depends doesn't it, as other posters have said, how bad the stifle is and what else is going with her?
 
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