When do you book a vetting?

At what stage do you have a horse vetted?

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Ella19

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I'm intrigued as to when most people book a vetting. I never had my pony vetted for many reasons so I can't really comment, but I work for an equine vets and as i'm on light office duties at the moment due to injury I am taking bookings for vettings. I have to say I am rather suprised that the majority seem to book a vetting after their first ride (only in the school) or even before seeing the horse. Is this normal? Myself I would only book a vetting having thoroughly tried the horse and satisfied it was the horse for me. I seem to be booking and cancelling vettings at the rate of knots at the moment as people hack them out and it turns out the horse is not for them. It's never a problem to do that but it has got me intrigued!
 
I booked a vetting after we had tried the horse both in the school and on a hack.
As the people were friends of friends they allowed us to have the horse on trial and after a day I arranged the vetting.
My vet, who was also the horse's owners vet, was not worried about the situation, nor was I or the owner though it was an unusual circumstance!
At least he could say that he had known the horse for a year and only seen him for routine injections!

All was well and he passed with only minor remarks which were obvious anyway.
 
Iv only ever bought youngsters so i would ride it in the arena and if i like it then ring my vets to arrange a vetting. With my newest mare i tried her in the school, loved her so rang my vets on the way home, she was vetted the next morning and was with me by lunch time :D They had a cancelation which is the only reason they could fit me in at such late notice, there always super busy!! I would only book a vetting if i knew that i was going to buy the horse if it passed.
 
I would book the vetting when I was ready to purchase the horse/pony. So when I was sure I wanted it.
 
Any horses I got vetted when I was looking for a horse (so if they passed I was buying them) had been ridden a number of times, tried out xc, had their stable manners sussed out, bar my boy, but he had been ridden in an arena, out on the roads, in fields, and down to water. I had also seen what he was like to catch, and had brought him in to a stable to tack him up, and gave a small feed, so I had an idea of his manners too. I wouldn't book a vetting before I had tried the horse, or without taking it out of an arena, as I've been to see horses that sounded perfect, but turned out to be completely unsuitable for what I wanted, and a vetting would have been an unnecessary expense.
 
Seems that I am not going mad then! Most of the ones that have booked and canceled once they hacked it out are for children. Do you suppose its a way of securing a pony that nay be snapped up otherwise
 
I would have thought you would only commit to laying out all that money once you were almost ready to buy. I have only purchased one horse and I booked the vetting when I had paid my deposit (subject to vetting) - I would have thought that the most common way round, so I was surprised to hear what you have found. I think you could be right that it is a way to secure your pony purchase maybe!
 
Ella19 said:
Seems that I am not going mad then! Most of the ones that have booked and canceled once they hacked it out are for children. Do you suppose its a way of securing a pony that nay be snapped up otherwise
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That is the only thing I can think of other than they are all first time buyers and don't really know what to do, perhaps pushed a little by seller?
 
After I have thoroughly checked out the horse, but 'thoroughly' for me depends on the situation. For my current pony it was after sitting on for 15 minutes once in an arena as he was only just backed and I just wanted to see he had a nice attitude and paces. HE was also in Ireland, so I could only have ridden once anyway.

Basically, whenever I decide to buy the horse I arrange a vetting. I don't want to mess vets about by changing my mind.
 
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