Oh Susan, that is such good news! Congratulations to you and Foxi both. I was afraid it was going to be another Twist story. The very nice and very ethical young woman who was selling Twist let us take him home, three hours away, for 30 days and then vet check him at the end of that time. We were thrilled and he's such a nice horse, but during that 30 days, we thought he seemed a little "off" and we pointed it out to the equine vet doing the pre-purchase. He said the horse was fine and Abby should just begin his endurance training. Over the next several months, Abby had the same vet out two more times looking for what she felt was something wrong. He got pretty impatient with us and told her just to "go out and ride your horse". He also made a pretty nasty remark to Amber Applegate about people who buy off-track pacing horses then think they move funny.
So - Abby took Twist to his first LD and he got pulled at 12 miles for lameness. She took him to the endurance vert who pulled him and the ultrasound showed an old suspensory injury. She did the whole stall rest, hand walking, return to work thing and when he had a clean ultrasound and X-rays (just to be sure) I bought him so she could go searching for a different horse. We love Twist and will keep him here in a different role, but I sure did lose confidence in the vet. Nancy
