Would you buy a horse with old suspension injury for hacking?

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Hello, just wanting some advice. There’s a ex race horses that I’m thinking of buying that had a suspension injury 2 years ago and has since recovered and ready to start work. I will be mainly hacking with a bit of schooling, would you buy? I will get a vetting done if I decide to go ahead
 
For a hacking horse, I would buy a front one, if it had recovered and was in full work that I wished to do.

A lame horse still costs a lot to keep, so I wouldn't buy one that hadn't proved it could do what I wanted.

But who am I to speak? I bought my Rigsby when he was just finishing a 3 month box rest!
 
louemma said:
Hello, just wanting some advice. There’s a ex race horses that I’m thinking of buying that had a suspension injury 2 years ago and has since recovered and ready to start work. I will be mainly hacking with a bit of schooling, would you buy? I will get a vetting done if I decide to go ahead
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I would only pay meat money if the horse hasn't yet done any work to speak of. I would also be very concerned if the injury was so bad that the horse took 2 years to start light work.
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No. My horse had a suspension injury I didn’t know about and I spent 4 years in a state of anxiety and eventually it went and he was pts rather than recovered because it was never going to be sufficient.
 
Depends which suspensory, where on the suspensory and how much damage was done.
Ive had 2 with suspensory issues 1 put a hole in a front suspensory, 18 months of rest, treatment and recovery he came back into full flat work.
my current pony did his hind suspensory branches a few years ago. Only very mildly but it was hell getting him through it.
he was back in work before i fell pregnant.

personally i would want the horse back in full work before i would look at it. The bringing them back into work slowly and carefully is hard and is where they are most likely to reinjur themselves
 
Maybe I've misunderstood but it seems like you might be taking two risks here: 1) He won't stay sound when back in work, and 2) if he's not done the job of being a light hack before, it may not suit him mentally.

I'm assuming you're interested because he's very cheap? But I'd potentially look for something older who's looking to step down- but has a history of successfully doing the job you want.
 
Yes provided the horse has shown to be sound doing the type of workload you want to do for a period of time post rehab
 
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