We'll begin by saying that it is always very important to perform a pre-purchase exam before you buy a horse. The pre-purchase exam can reveal information that the owner isn't aware of. This is why we must also do so when the person that sells to us is known and is of confidence.
The most frequent argument is if the horse is cheap then is it worth performing an exam on? Our advice is to ask for it anyway, regardless of the horse's value. The feeling of frustration and deception if a horse cannot be used after purchased, is like if you have invested very little or too much money in it.

The information collected in the exam will be useful for the buyer, by avoiding the operation of a purchase if the horse has high risk pathologies.
By avoiding buying a lame horse or eventually becomes ill or doesn't have the specific age that we were told it did.
- It will also be worth having a reference point in the emergence of future injuries.
- By avoiding doubts or suspicions in the nearby months of purchase,.... doubts such as "Did it already have this"???
- In many cases the buyer can renegotiate the horse's value before to buy it. It's not the same, for example, the value of a healthy horse and the value of the same horse if the pre-purchase exam detects that it can't see out of an eye.
- Finally it will also be valuable for the seller to make the horse's health clear before to deliver it.
- There are different types of exams that exist, relating to the type of ways that the complementary diagnostic tools are used, clinical exams, radiological studies, ultrasounds, blood tests, doping tests, laryngoscopies, etc.. This will make the study more or less costly.