What does this 'condition' mean?

Weak, definately.

Insurance would be a nightmare (if they'd insure at all)

Personally, unless it's for a companion I wouldn't buy one advertised with a tendon injury, but it's down tot he individual. You may be able to hack it quite the thing for the next 20 years, it might go again next year- you just don't know.

How old is the horse?
 
come on troops slow down , there are plenty of horses (high end sports horses included) that have these injuries and recover to have good competitive careers . you cannot possibly make comment without seeing the nature and proper diagnosis of the said problems .
chris
 
My horse has 2 (both fronts went) but the vet has advised he will be fine to hack, jump and do local shows- funrides etc
 
I'm not- if I was buying an unknown horse with an unknown history, I would be very wary of a tendon injury, an quite rightly so!!

Unless the seller would let me speak to the vet directly I wouldn't consider it, especially at 15 (it's not old, but my vets always panic if there's a suspected tendon injury at this age)

If you want to risk it, and you like her well enough go for it, but there will always be the risk, especially as the horse gets older.

If my own horse injures it, that's a different thing, BUT personally i would never sell a horse after a serious injurywith likely long tern effects, but again, that's just me.
 
Doesn't necessarily mean the horse is crippled for life - could depend on how badly it did it and how well it recovered. I know of horses that have affiliated BE and BS post tendon injury having had a lot of time off and being brought back to work slowly and conservatively. And also it just said it had an injury - may have been a slight tweak?

Re. insurance too it doesn't mean that they'll never insure you again, obviously I think it depends on the insurance company, but Petplan have in the past allowed my horses leg to be re-insured after a deep digital tendon injury, but as I could prove he'd been in full work for a year (affiliated competition records) I was allowed to re-insure the leg. He is now doing everything apart from jumping (as he is older I am aware that the tendon isn't 100% is what it was) but is still doing everything else, and loves going out on the gallops. However, I am conscious of it (hence the no jumping) and I check the heat of his legs every day for any inclination something may be wrong.

It depends on what you want to do (sorry have not read any of your past posts so am unaware) but if you don't want to jump or do "hard work" then its not necessarily a problem.

Obviously I know this is not the case in all horses, and anything that still had a hot/swollen leg or was just being brought back into work I personally wouldn't touch with a barge pole. But if its an older injury, you don't want to be jumping, and you really like the horse (and you should be able to get it for a nice price!! ) I personally would see what the vet says (maybe worth getting it scanned - our vets do it for £100 then could get it knocked off the price of him?), or even better ask if you can speak to the current owners vet about the injury. You would need the owners permission, but I'm sure if it was an old injury that caused the horse no problems they wouldn't have a problem?
 
Sorry- I may be coming across harshly- I'm on my phone at work lol

Basically, what I am trying to say is why foaling around has said :)

Though if it's specified light work only that to me says it was a major blow

Have a look at her- can't hurt!!
 
Sorry, just re-read your original post and noticed the "light" work bit. Would make me more wary. As I said its just down to what you want to do really!!
 
Mo'sMum if your looking for another horse i do know a girl who lives in Port Talbot has a couple of TB's that shes reschooled for sale & they are in a similar price bracket but with out the dodgy bits.
 
MosMum said:
so, resulting in weak tendons for life, no lunging, no trotting on roads etc etc? Or much worse: Lame for life?
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I guess it depends on the individual severity and recovery.

I did an arabian mare who broke down on the race track at 5 years old, spent months on box rest, then got colic, had surgery, was put in foal (vets advice) so in total had a three year lay-up, I bought her (in foal) for pennies during that time.

She came back sound as a pound, did endurance, went back into race training, had three more foals, hunted hard for four years and never once had a lame day due to her original injury, or a colic episode. The only thing she didn't do was jump, because I wasn't bothered and she didn't see the point in it - why go over if you can go around eh?
 
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