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'WIDELY respected racecourse vet Jenny Hall is being sued for compensation after leading Irish event rider Jayne Doherty paid £186,000 for a horse she now maintains is only worth £1,000.
According to a High Court writ, Glen Corran turned out to have a heart murmur and be lame in all four legs.
Doherty and her husband, Paul, have begun proceedings against Hall, senior vet to the British three-day event team and a partner in the Lambourn-based practice of Hall and Lawrence, claiming she was negligent. Hall is also racecourse vet at Epsom, Kempton and Sandown.
Hall said she did not wish to discuss the legal action beyond saying it is being defended by her insurers.
According to the writ, Hall examined Glen Corran, before the Dohertys' purchase, on October 22, 2003 and found he was suffering from a severe overreach, was lame and had a heart murmur. She told the Dohertys his lameness was caused by the overreach, and recommended she re-vet the horse later, the writ says.
Hall examined him three more times the following month, finding he was lame in his right hindleg, and then his left foreleg, it is alleged.
The Dohertys, of Armagh, Northern Ireland, say they did not buy the horse at the time, but asked Hall to re-vet him in February 2004, and she produced a certificate that stated there were no clinically discoverable signs of disease, injury or physical abnormality, that the x-rays and ultrasound examinations were all with normal limits, and that, in her opinion, the conditions set out above are not likely to prejudice this animal's use for top-class eventing.
Glen Corran was then bought for £186,000 by the Dohertys, who insured him with Shearwater.
Jayne Doherty came second on Glen Corran at a three-star event in October 2004, but the writ claims that soon after taking delivery of the horse,various vets diagnosed him as being intermittently or permanently lame in all four legs, and not safe or able to compete at the highest level, either now or in the future.
The Dohertys allege they could not claim on their insurance because Shearwater said they had failed to disclose the horse's known past problems. The writ claims Glen Corran has never been able to compete at the highest level eventing, and has needed extensive treatment.'
'WIDELY respected racecourse vet Jenny Hall is being sued for compensation after leading Irish event rider Jayne Doherty paid £186,000 for a horse she now maintains is only worth £1,000.
According to a High Court writ, Glen Corran turned out to have a heart murmur and be lame in all four legs.
Doherty and her husband, Paul, have begun proceedings against Hall, senior vet to the British three-day event team and a partner in the Lambourn-based practice of Hall and Lawrence, claiming she was negligent. Hall is also racecourse vet at Epsom, Kempton and Sandown.
Hall said she did not wish to discuss the legal action beyond saying it is being defended by her insurers.
According to the writ, Hall examined Glen Corran, before the Dohertys' purchase, on October 22, 2003 and found he was suffering from a severe overreach, was lame and had a heart murmur. She told the Dohertys his lameness was caused by the overreach, and recommended she re-vet the horse later, the writ says.
Hall examined him three more times the following month, finding he was lame in his right hindleg, and then his left foreleg, it is alleged.
The Dohertys, of Armagh, Northern Ireland, say they did not buy the horse at the time, but asked Hall to re-vet him in February 2004, and she produced a certificate that stated there were no clinically discoverable signs of disease, injury or physical abnormality, that the x-rays and ultrasound examinations were all with normal limits, and that, in her opinion, the conditions set out above are not likely to prejudice this animal's use for top-class eventing.
Glen Corran was then bought for £186,000 by the Dohertys, who insured him with Shearwater.
Jayne Doherty came second on Glen Corran at a three-star event in October 2004, but the writ claims that soon after taking delivery of the horse,various vets diagnosed him as being intermittently or permanently lame in all four legs, and not safe or able to compete at the highest level, either now or in the future.
The Dohertys allege they could not claim on their insurance because Shearwater said they had failed to disclose the horse's known past problems. The writ claims Glen Corran has never been able to compete at the highest level eventing, and has needed extensive treatment.'
