Thoughts please on lump....

[iudall]

I’m interested in buying a 16.1hh, black, 5 year old trakehner mare for £2,500.

She has a lump that is:
- approx. 5cm by 2.5cm
- with a 2.5cm by 2mm scar over it (skin healed nicely)
- raised about 1cm from the rest of her leg
- near the front of the inside of her cannon bone on her near hind
- about 5cm below the hock joint
- feels ‘fleshy’ under the hair (not ‘fluidy’ or ‘boney’!

She does seem a little sensitive about it but she is only 5 so not that used to being poked and prodded! She does not look lame on the leg at all.

Her current owner said that she got her leg caught on some electric fencing wire in the winter. She said that she had it checked by a vet at the time and he had said that it shouldn’t cause any problems in the future.

I suppose my question is; would a lump in that area possibly cause any lameness as her workload increases (she is currently just turned out in a field). Or would it just be the superficial/cosmetic look of it that would remain with her?

Many thanks in advance for your advice.

 

[AmyMay]

I suppose my question is; would a lump in that area possibly cause any lameness as her workload increases (she is currently just turned out in a field). Or would it just be the superficial/cosmetic look of it that would remain with her?

I suppose this is the sort of question only your vet can answer upon vetting.

 

[iudall]

I will certainly have her vetted (can only have a 2 stage as she been out in the field to mature since being broken in at the end of last summer) but I just wanted some advice / other people’s similar experiences first. I didn’t want to pay out a few hundred pounds if it was a definite no no!