Sold an unhappy horse with ulcers

[EquineHOSS]

Did the behaviour get worse after you got a new saddle? While I think scoping is a good idea perhaps your new saddle doesn't fit?

I have a very expensive saddle gathering dust. Fitted to my horse, checked and re-checked. She hates it.

yes! I really think the saddle is an issue as is heavier than what I was riding in and previous owner.
Have made a new post regarding vet report xx

 

[EquineHOSS]

I bought my horse at the end of October, when I bought her she sailed through a 2 stage vetting and I tried her twice in school and out hacking and she was quiet, unbothered by my nerves and very tolerant of my less than stellar riding. Upon getting her home first person to see her was the farrire, then saddler, then the physio, who did find some stuff to work on but nothing awful.

I rode her quite a bit in the first few weeks (in line with physio advice) and again she was quiet and didn't put a foot wrong, but she wasn't putting on the condition I would have expected given that she had ad-lib haylage and good turn out during the day and I just felt something was not right with her, she tossed her head a lot and swished her tail when ridden which worried me. She was getting increasingly narky with people over her stable door (though not with me) and she was getting really narky to tack up and would not stand for me at the mounting block, not helped by the fact that I am short and slow and she is very large and business-like! She was regularly seen by saddler and physio in this time and no additional issues noted

So, I got the vet to check her over and on their reccomendation we got her scoped and also treated for tapeworms. She had stage 2-3 ulcers, which we spent 6 weeks treating. She is now feeling very well indeed, and looking pretty good too, she is much more relaxed with people around her stable- but as a ridden partnership, sadly, she has proven to be too much for me, she is just so forward going, she has a busy brain and is very responsive and also very large- not an ideal horse for a not very confident, still quite novicey at times rider who just wants to poodle about the countryside. She was when I bought her, but not now.

I am absolutely gutted because I love her and we have a great relationshiip on the ground, but I know when I am overhorsed and the leap is too big for me to make. Right now, she has no ridden or stable vices, I want to keep her that way hence my decision.

I don't blame the sellers, you can't predict how a horse will change with a different owner in a different place and I don't regret investigating and treating her for these things even though it has resulted in her being just too forward going for me. I hope now to find her a great home where she can be ffully appreciated for herself and that somewhere out there there is a horse for me. So the moral of this long, rambly story is, you can never tell with horses how things will turn out, it doesn't always mean you were misled by the seller,

definitely appreciate this post! And have definitely take back what I said about seller upon vet report.
I think I’ve just been so worried about him I’ve been worried that there was more to it but like you say, circumstances change and Homes change and it’s a lot for a horse to take on xx