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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
She may not have scoped well. They scope these yearlings the same way they scope the 2 year olds at the 2 year old sales. If a horse has a really bad throat, that will knock their price way down.
Another thing that can hurt the sales prices are chips. A lot of these horses have chips. Just from running around out in the pasture as yearlings, they get chips. Depending on how bad the chip is, it can have a big impact on the sales price. You would be shocked at how amny of these yearlings have chips. I don't know the exact number but it's probably somewhere around 10-20%.
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It shouldn't hurt their prices too much because if a horse has a chip and you buy it then X-ray afterward and find a chip, you can turn it back and not pay for the horse....
I never X-ray horses anymore UNTIL I buy them because it cost too much money X-raying every damn horse you may be interested in....you wait and buy them and THEN you x-ray them after they get out of the ring and if they don't vet out you turn them back to the seller and don't pay....
Throats are a little different...if there is some sort of disfunction or paralysis than you can turn back a horse after you buy it and discover it has a bad throat.....yet, if you are a pinhooker and a horse has a functional throat but it may rate out as a "B" throat and not an "A" throat (the best and onlt thraots that pinhookers will buy to be able to resell the prospect down the road) then you are stuck with the horse.....
Why waste vet charges evaluating 25 horses before a sale if you are only planning on buying 3 or 4 of them that wind up fitting in your price range?...It is wasted cost and the very reason there is a turn-back policy at the sales - to protect the purchaser's risk and cost output....