Who DIDN'T have their horse vetted?

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Just wondering, whilst reading the threads about vetting. I didn't have my current horse vetted, It's just not really done over here. I wish I did have him vetted though, Although I still would have bought him.
Who didn't have their horse vetted? Do you regret it? Did it change your mind about the sale?
 
for £1500 - £2000 I'm not paying £500 for a vetting each time.

I never have, it's just the risk you take I guess - but then even vetted horses break down.
 
None of mine have been vetted and I haven't regretted it either. I was lucky though that previous owners were pretty honest about their history.

Having said that the most I have paid for a horse is £500.
 
I didn't have my now 4yr old vetted when bought as a weanling, nor did I have this years weanling vetted. As a rule I don't have my daughters ponies vetted either. We never pay high enough money to warrant them being vetted TBH.

The only horse I ever had vetted had a funny lump which turned out to be a melanoma. I did still buy her though (but didn't keep her for long!)
 
I didn't have my horse vetted as it was my parents money and i didn't feel it was mine to spend. However i really wish i had and would recommened that if people are in the financial situation to have a horse vetted that they do so. Having said that i love my horse and wouldn't change her but having discovered many things about her after i brought her that are a little 'annoying' and not what i expected.
Having said that when selling my old horse someone had him vetted and he failed, he was then vetted again and passed so i think you have to be careful what vet you use because if you were gunna get £500 a time for vetting horses for people.. well you can probably guess what i mean.
 
My middle aged mare (the one on the left of my siggy, gorgeous girl that she is).

I had her on loan for 18 months and then the owner decided to sell her so I bought her for the very reasonable sum of £1500 (owner wanted me to buy her!
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). Didnt seem worth vetting her as I knew she was sound and, even if she hadnt been, I would still have bought her as I had got so fond of her.

I've had her for 8 or so years now and other than knackering her check ligament about 4 years ago cavorting around the field has never been sick or sorry
 
No i didnt, not the 1st time I bought her, or the 2nd time either.

The 1st time, it didnt cross my mind tbh & my parents didnt seem to think it was required.

When we bought her back, she was coming home anyway, regardless so she could have had 3 legs and two heads for all it mattered.
 
I didn't have either of mine vetted - they weren't expensive though. If I was spending a lot of money on a horse or buying it for some specific like XC or jumping I would def get them vetted
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Isn't it funny how a lot of people don't vet - because they aren't spending a lot of money.

Then, the first thing people say when someone buys a cheap horse is "I hope you had it vetted"....
 
I had my foals vetted but when I bought a mare (aged 5) in August I didn't as I knew her and her background. I definitely would if buying a horse I did not know though. Even paying £3000 is wasted if you then find they have a condition which would have shown up for a £500 fee. Also, I am not sure where insurance stands if you do not have the horse vetted and then something arises.
 
I didn't have my mare vetted. She only cost £850. She had been living in a field across the road from my sister from the age of 2 and when I bought her as a 7 year old she had only been sat on and left the field a handful of times, so I pretty much knew her complete history.
I have had her over seven years and we have covered many kms together - she is a tough, sound little pony.
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Isn't it funny how a lot of people don't vet - because they aren't spending a lot of money.

Then, the first thing people say when someone buys a cheap horse is "I hope you had it vetted"....

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lol about 10 people from my livery yard asked me that!
 
I didnt have either of mine vetted, i did have a vet look at one particular thing on a previous horse and brought it anyway.. I choose not to vet for no particular reason, just never done it
 
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Isn't it funny how a lot of people don't vet - because they aren't spending a lot of money.

Then, the first thing people say when someone buys a cheap horse is "I hope you had it vetted"....

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Hum - I think that's moreso when a horse is suspiciously cheap. Mine was a 2 yo just broken, out the field jobbie - so not cheap for what he was, but cheap comparatively.

If I went to see a 8yo advanced eventer who had won 1.30 opens and foxhunter - who was £1500 - then I might get it vetted
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I've had some vetted and others not. I bought my grade A as an unvetted 4-year-old and apart from attacking a car he's never been lame, sick or sorry. He's 20 this year. I bought a warmblood five years ago who had failed a vetting by a potential purchaser. Apart from growing to an astounding height he has been perfectly sound and healthy, out jumping every week and coming up to grade A. OK, I took a gamble and was lucky it paid off.
 
was going to say where is your vet, I want him!
I can't remember how much I paid, it was over 3 years ago now but I vaguely remember £90, however, that was for a foal vetting so nowhere near as detailed as a five stage.
 
I never have anything vetted, never regretted it either. If it's a youngster I buy what I see + breeding and if it's older I wouldn't expect it not to have bumps and lumps anyway, there is no perfect horse... and even if there is, what is there to say that it won't pass the vet with flying colours and then break it's leg in the field next day...
 
£500 was for two horses
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When I got my lad it was a toss up between a 4yo Selle Francais x with excellent breeding, or a 2yo scruffy heinz 57 who couldn't trot in a straight line lol

Corse I went for the obvious option - the 2yo :P But there was something fishy about the 4yo - horse with an attitude and all that.
 
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Isn't it funny how a lot of people don't vet - because they aren't spending a lot of money.

Then, the first thing people say when someone buys a cheap horse is "I hope you had it vetted"....

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When I say mine were cheap one was £400 and one was £50
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1 shetland, 1 section D, 1 dale x and Tia cob X. Not had one vetted and never had a problem..couldn't care less about vetting to be honest unless I was spending thousands which would never happen anyway. If something goes wrong it goes wrong. People worry to much about everything nowadays instead of just enjoying themselves. I don't get any problems because I'm so laid back ;p;
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Never had any vetted, only once it bit me on the arse but the others have all been *touches wood* nil problemo..

although im another cheapy horse buyer, £800 was my last one and i wasnt having that vetted!
 
O right yes. A friend of a friend viewed a huge number of horses and decided on one which failed the vet, then decided on another which also failed the vet. She then fell in love with a Connemara, spent the day with the very 'nice' owners and decided to buy the horse. When she asked about vetting the owner said that she wouldn't be around much that week, so Friend thought, O such nice people, I've spent the day with the horse and them, everything must be alright.

Of course, it was far from alright. To cut a long story short, the horse turns out to have been drugged to the eyeballs and had a long term degenerative bone condition. After keeping the poor animal for three months at full livery, Friend had to have it pts. Dunno what's happening court wise, but Friend is heartbroken and £15k the poorer.

How can people do that? Cover up a horse's pain and just care about money. Risky business tho.
 
I know someone who spent £4.5K on a youngish mare & didn't have it vetted at purchase. She didn't get on with it & decided to sell it, only to discover it had a heart murmur when the prospective purchasers had it vetted. Needless to say the sale was off & she's now stuck with it.
 
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