Update on 'A Short Story About a Lame Horse'

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Sorry, didn't mean to re-post the whole thread, so here's the outcome to my original post:
http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=485562

For those who were following this (and anyody else for that matter), blood tests were carried out and, to my shock, horror and amazement, anaesthetic was found in the blood.
So, if you get your horse home after purchase and find that he is NOT the horse you tried out, don't get too hung up on 'new environment' and 'saddle issues', get the bloods tested FIRST, without further ado!

Said horse has now sadly been returned, money grudgingly refunded, and the dealer very narrowly missed a court case which would have ruined their reputation (not to mention the vet who was in bed with them). I am now horseless and about to hang up my boots.
 
good on you, did they reimburse the cost of the blood test... i hope so. Owners that do the wrong thing are bad enough, I hope the vet was just caught up in it, but they really should know better.

Mind you we have a few clients whose previous accountants are in jail.

My OH used to work for a bad accountant, (for 3 months when he was 18, he was savvy enough to realise and left) the manager that worked with him that provided info to police ended up shot dead, the accountant ended up in jail.

People tend to have a blind faith in professionals, but there are good ones and bad ones.
 
WOW well done you for getting to the bottom of it. Dont hang your boots up just yet keep looking. There is the right horse out there for you. I hope you got your vet fees reimbursed as well???
 
In the end I suppose people like me just end up feeling a bit 'violated' - the feeling is similar to the one you get when you've been burgled (and yes, that has happened to me more than once, even though I have nothing worth stealing).
The motivator is pure, unadulterated greed, and you hope that people like this will get their comeuppance one day - maybe not in this life, but the next. The ultimate victim is the horse - that innocent and noble creature who far too often finds itself the vehicle of human greed.
 
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