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If anybody  finds a perfect horse, let me know. None of ours are.
The Vet has no liability here. IF someone came into my office on this (I 
am a lawyer) I would not take their money and would send them home.
  Keith
rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> > If the vet was told that the horse would be used for Endurance and 
> > there is  something so drastically wrong on the x-rays that there is no
> >    
> way 
>  
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> > the horse  could be a distance horse and the vet should have picked up
> >    
> on it 
>  
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> > during  the pre-purchase, Sheila may have some legal recourse against
> >    
> the 
>  
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> > vet.  Dabney?
> >    
>
> Aw come on. The vet flexed the horse and he flexed sound. She got him
> home and found out he's herd bound. So why did she go get x-rays?  She
> didn't say it was a broken bone or anything, just, "Also I had x-rays
> taken and something not so favorable showed up on them. "  
>
> It's a BIG bummer to have a sound horse for sale and somebody gets
> x-rays...a vet sees something he's not 100 % sure about and suddenly your
> horse has a scarlett letter on his chest. I had a 4 yr. old mare for sale
> once and a university vet didn't care for the looks of her hocks for a
> stupid *pleasure* career! So I sold her to someone else, bought her back
> at 10 and she did one of the toughest 50's around. When I sold her again
> at 15 she'd still never had any problems.
>
> I bought a horse 2 weeks ago. I've already found out SEVERAL things
> aren't quite perfect about him. They didn't *tell* me he was perfect in
> those areas, but in my mind, ANYTHING I DIDN'T SEE THE DAY I BOUGHT HIM
> WASN'T THERE.  The first few weeks home are always a learning experience.
> My new horse has some behavior problems on the trail. Well heck, she let
> me take him on a 16 mile try out and I didn't see them. Does that mean
> she deceived me? Nope. the horse did. :-)  Fortunately, I think I can
> live with all the "less than perfections" about him and am still happy I
> got him.  Hey, guess what? He's herd bound. Most are. I've yet to get on
> a horse who hadn't had a lot of miles put on him alone who was happy
> about leaving the crowd. If this horse is 5, when was he supposed to have
> learned to be independent?
>
> Angie
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