Vetting process at sales

[Pav]

Generally, what is entailed in the vetting process at sales, partiularly yearling sales. I believe that x-rays are supposed to be available for review at the sale repository, but who typically reviews them? Are other tests commonly performed? Are vets available to review x-rays and perform other tests for prospective buyers? What are the primary factors contributing to a horse not "vetting" well? Thanks in advance.

Pav

[doublete]

I bought at and went to my first ever sale yesterday.

I am lucky that I'm in the md area, so I just asked my track vet if they had anyone at the sale, and if not, who they would recommend. So I got his number, and called yesterday morning and gave him hip numbers to look at the xrays in the respository. I had already seen the consignor's vets evaluation of the xrays on one of them, but the vet I hired had a different take on them. I paid the vet what he charged per "look" (each hip). I saw several vets with scopes wandering around. Most consignors had a scope with the xrays. But you can definitely hire your own vet to do your own xrays, and scope.

It is up to interpretation (trust your vet) whether whatever they find is a "no go" for racing. Sometimes it is ok, sometimes not. At the yearling sales, it seems there are some issues that are "ok" for buying to race, but not "ok" for buying to sell. It's up to you whether you trust your vet's opinion. Or heck, go walk around, find a 2nd vet to read the same xrays.

[KMO_racing]

Basically if you are considering a racing prospect or pin hook venture you would want to know a couple of things. 1) How does he/she scope cause if he can't breath he probabaly won't run well. That is the first thing I do. If he passes the scope we move onto Xrays. You can go have your vet you pay for look in the repository at the xrays and read them or you can have a vet do a whole set of xrays ussualy 32 views, breakout the wallet for that.