When a horse has been 5 stage vetted. Then there's a problem?

Park Ranger - that's awful
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I'm sorry to hear that.

I had my horse 5* vetted on a Wednesday. On the Friday I picked him up and he was COVERED in ringworm (I'm sorry, but that doesn't come up in 2 days!!). I know it's not a failure or anything but I thought the vet could have at least said "oh, he's got a touch of ringworm" but he didn't say a word.

Also, my horse was the most gentle docile sweet natured horse when I tried him. When I got him home however, he had mutated into a devil. "So" I thought "I'll ask the vet to run tests on the blood he took". Well, after calling him twice a day every day for 2 weeks, and no returned call, I did start to wonder. I was mighty p*ssed off but what recourse do you have? I have perservered with my horse and we have made significant progress but I didn't really know what I could do about the vet situation? I suppose I could have at least complained to his governing body?

P.S. The seller also told me the horse was 5 when he was 3 - vet didn't mention that either. He told me that he had a wolf tooth but also failed to mention that his teeth were like nails and his mouth was covered in ulcers (poor boy). He is completely health sorted now and, although none of these things would result in a failure of the vetting, I think they are definitely things I should have been told. For eg, I would have asled the owner to sort the ringworm problem out before I picked him up. Sorry, I seem to have gone on a bit, grrrrr, bloody vets
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As others have said, your vetting is basic valid for that particular point in time and it's very hard to prove that a physical issue already existed a few months down the line.

Although they do take bloods, these are only analysed if you pay extra. The bloods are stored for examination should a problem arise later on (for example, the horse no longer appears to be what it was sold as and the new owner starts to question whether it was drugged at the vetting). If you want these examining at the time, you need to specify that with the vet and pay the extra money.

Sadly, vettings are no cast iron guarentee that the horse is 100% physically ok.

With mine, we had a 5 stage vetting, blood work up and full xrays on all four legs. The bloods were done not to check for drugging as the horse belonged to my trainer and I was liverying there, but rather to check for any lingering viral problems, anaemia and to check his general health. The xrays were done, obviously, to rule out any early signs of joint changes of degenerative problems and also to have a good look at his feet as conformationally, he's not great down there.

The xrays were expensive ontop of the vetting but more than worth it for the peace of mind it gave us.

He also had some further tests done at a clinic to check out his heart murmour. He'd had it since a foal (which we're lucky to know for sure) but we wanted to make sure it hadn't gotten worse over the years. Im not even sure exactly what tests he even had for that!

In total, I think we paid around 700 pounds for the xrays, 5 stage vetting, full blood analysis and additional tests on his murmour. In total, there were 28 x rays taken of his legs. I think the vetting itself was around 350 pounds and the rest went on the additional "stuff"
 
Im not sure tbh. You're meant to declare the horses intended purpose to the vet. Im assuming you mean affiliated level competition? Id say unaffiliated level wouldn't matter but i suspect affilitated would.

No idea though!
 
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a horse passes a 5 stage with no problems based on Riding Club activities, would they also pass for competition purposes?


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Depends.
A blemish would prevent top class showing, conformation or aciton could rule out top level dressage, tpye may not be right for eventing.
One of ours was passed for hacking, Riding Club and dressage, but vet would not recommend for horse trials or afflilated jumping
Main thing is to get a vet who is highly recommended and an equine and competition horse expert if you can.
For a potential show horse we used a vet who is a panel show judge too.
 
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under £4000 - £5000 theyusually don't ask

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I paid over £4500 and was still not asked for vet certificate although I cancelled the insurance as the horse went back total nutcase when we got him home. Had driven up to South Yorkshire 3 times to try him. So you just never no do you.
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