starryeyed
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I would (and have!) bought a scarred horse. If it suits you in every other way, and you don't want to do serious showing - then go for it 
would you buy a horse with a substantial scar??
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emma.is
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Little horse has a scar across his chest
which started off as this!
it was a clean puncture across his chest and there was nothing in the field that he could of caused it and due to the public right of way through the field and the way he was acting around other people in the field we can only assume somebody did it to him
he placed 2nd in a largish local show and when she asked about the scar I just said it was a field accident when he was a yearling and she didn't mark me down
which started off as this!
it was a clean puncture across his chest and there was nothing in the field that he could of caused it and due to the public right of way through the field and the way he was acting around other people in the field we can only assume somebody did it to him
he placed 2nd in a largish local show and when she asked about the scar I just said it was a field accident when he was a yearling and she didn't mark me down
springer1021
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Wouldn't bother me in the slightest
JennBags
HHOSS Wonder Woman
I'm going to go against the grain here, personally I wouldn't buy a horse who had scarring.
My second horse had scarring, and I though: not into showing, doesn't affect his ability (had been winning over 1.20 tracks & jumping 1.40 at home). What I didn't take into account was the reason for all the scarring - he was accident prone
Long & sad story but after I'd had him a year he slipped over in the school, damaged his meniscal ligament & after another 10 months had to be PTS
He also had had various injuries during the first year I had him.
My second horse had scarring, and I though: not into showing, doesn't affect his ability (had been winning over 1.20 tracks & jumping 1.40 at home). What I didn't take into account was the reason for all the scarring - he was accident prone
Long & sad story but after I'd had him a year he slipped over in the school, damaged his meniscal ligament & after another 10 months had to be PTS
He also had had various injuries during the first year I had him.
Shysmum
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wouldn't bother me at all, as long as the history added up, and the vetting vet was happy - there can be firbrous tissue under nasty scars. I have a nasty scar from a back op, but hubs says it doesn't bother him, lol
Ginger Bear
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My tb has a barbed wire scar the whole way around the top of one of his front legs.. Doesn't bother me at all.