It would depend on the buyer. If the buyer wanted to sell a few views, then it could work for everyone. Earlier up-thread it was suggested that the seller should buy, or perhaps even be required to purchase all the radiographs in a failed PPE. In my opinion, that is an unrealistic expectation. The seller only needs the 2, 3 or 4 views of the joint(s) that caused the buyer to pass.
Truth be told, lots of horses have PPE’s that are less than pristine. If the horse hasn’t been radiographed before, no one knows what the films will look like until they are taken.
As a buyer, we have to “pass” on a good percentage of the horses we PPE. We never ask the seller to buy our radiographs. We turn our PPE’s over to the seller. We believe it is good for the horse, the owner and the next buyer who comes along. But that is just the way we choose to do business. Some folks will agree and some will not. I suspect the next buyer coming in after us who has access to our PPE because we released the information to the seller, will find it is beneficial.
As a seller, if we are aware a horse we are offering for sale has radiographs that may raise concerns, we make those radiographs available to a buyer. Sometimes the views we have available to share with a buyer are from a prior PPE. Sometimes they are views we’ve taken and paid for ourselves. The radiographs are typically presented to the buyer or the buyer’s vet sans any written opinion unless the buyer asks for one. Buyers usually rely on their own vets to interpret radiographs and other items of question.
At the end of the day, there are a lot of honest hard-working sellers and breeders out there. And sometimes these honest folks have horses for sale that ultimately don’t “pass” a PPE. That isn’t the fault of an honest seller if he/she was unaware of what the radiographs might reveal. When a horse “fails” a PPE, everyone involved is disappointed; the buyer, the seller, the agents, the trainers. etc. PPE’s are expensive. That is for certain. But they provide valuable information. If a PPE enables a buyer to dodge a bullet, then that is money well spent.
