Vetting: Fingers crossed...and please may I have some of those famous HHO vibes?

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Further to this: http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=11821733#post11821733:

I've blagged a day off work, escaped son duties and am getting up in time to hear farting sparrows to drive from deepest, darkest East Angular to Stratford to be there for this vetting. Not least because although the practice gets some good reviews, the vet in question has a bit of a reputation...

Please, please, please can I have some 'pass the vetting' vibes for this gee gee? I knew from the moment I saw her she was the one I had been looking for. In the last few months I have looked at 100s, tried a fair few, and had two fail the vetting. Well, the second didn't fail, she was declared not fit for purpose. That day I received an email offering me one hell of an opportunity - the sort that little girls dream about, really.

If she passes I will shout about my serendipity pony (all 16.3hh of her) from the rooftops. Of all the frogs I've kissed, she really is the princess. If she fails, I may be on here asking how to get a second opinion and some WWYDs.

Anyway, pass vibes would be hugely appreciated. I'll return the favour wherever and however I can. Thank you so, so much.
 
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Well that's that. Thank you for the vibes. Sadly they didn't work. The beautiful girl failed in the first 5 minutes. He filled in his forms, took out his stethoscope and that was that. He declared 'that's the most irregular heartbeat I've heard outside of a racing yard in the last 10 years'. Trotted her up to see if it changed and it didn't. Atrial fibrillation. Vet said she would never be able to event.

She had her jabs at Christmas and no irregular heartbeat then, so whatever had triggered it had happened since. Her owner was in tears. She will have an ECG tomorrow - and a second opinion. But the fact that the vet drove off and then came back to say Newmarket were looking for guinea pigs for cardiologist specialist courses next week sort of says it all.:(
 
Indeed, poor, poor owner. I think we were both in absolute shock. She will be absolutely devastated on so many levels. It was so hard for her to sell her horse in the first place - she was her 'forever' horse until life got rather rudely in the way.

We will see what the ECG says tomorrow. Maybe the vet had a pea in his stethoscope. Am gutted. She was beautiful. I had been over her with a fine tooth comb...I sent her videos to my gait analysis client to ensure as best I could that she didn't have any funniness going on in hocks, hooves and knees. Her vet history is as clean as a whistle for the last two years. Poor owner indeed. It's heartbreaking and soul-destroying.
 
MrsMozart said:
Oh poo bums, on all counts :( I'd been thinking about you and hoping it was going well.

Sending strength to the owner, and hoping for a miracle for her and her horse (and you!).
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Oh thank you. If that echocardiogram comes back clean, I'll have her like a shot. But the chances are minute, aren't they.:( She was just perfect. Am so shocked. And gutted. And...oh, I don't know what to think. I am just the opposite of Midas, aren't I?
 
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