DEAL BREAKER ?
“WOULD I PURCHASE a horse with a sarcoid again? Yes,” states Anna Ernsting, who bought her Irish Draught gelding Bouncer with a banded sarcoid in July 2018. But there is a caveat — she would only complete the purchase if she felt confident that the sarcoid would respond to treatment, and the price of the horse reflected the issue.
“Bouncer was such a lovely stamp and perfect for what I wanted, so I took a punt on him,” she says. “The sarcoid dropped off and healed but three months later, three more appeared in the same site, and then a month later another appeared in a different place.
“Having previously had a pony with sarcoids which the vets eventually managed to remove with radiotherapy, I was not prepared to use these methods again on Bouncer. I found a lady who made her own herbal supplements tailored to each horse which boost the horse’s immune system to push sarcoids out from the inside.”
Anna started using the herbs in April 2019. By June, three more sarcoids appeared, but by the end of December, every sarcoid had gone and healed.
“I continued the herbs until the end of May 2020 and Bouncer has been free of sarcoids since,” adds Anna.
Charlotte Cooper also gambled
