For consignors, farms and agents
Know what the buyer's vet will see.
Sale radiographs are taken three weeks before the horse sells. By then every decision that mattered has already been made.
§01The timing problem
The expensive decisions happen in spring.
Which sale to enter. Whether to operate. What reserve to set. Whether this horse belongs in Book 1 at all. Every one of those is settled months before anyone shoots a repository film.
The films then arrive too late to change anything, and go straight to the people on the other side of the transaction.
The compressed window
- Films may be taken
- 21 days before selling
- Filed with the sale
- 4 days before selling
- Reviewed by the auction
- Never
- Read by
- The buyer's veterinarian
- Time to act on a finding
- None
Timings reflect the published repository terms for a major North American yearling sale. Individual sales differ. Check the conditions for your sale.
§02What we intend to offer
A pre-submission read, months earlier.
Your own veterinarian shoots screening films in spring. We read them, and tell you how the findings are likely to be graded by the people who will look at them in the autumn.
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Output 01
Finding and grade
Localised regions with a graded severity and a calibrated confidence, per view, in the vocabulary buyers' veterinarians already use.
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Output 02
Where readers disagree
The findings where experienced veterinarians grade the same film differently. Those are the ones worth a second opinion and a conversation.
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Output 03
Time to decide
Delivered early enough that surgery, a different sale, a different book or a different reserve is still an option rather than a regret.
Not available yet. This describes what we are building, not something you can buy today. Any screening is performed by, and interpreted by, your own licensed veterinarian. Slynnpack does not examine horses, does not practise veterinary medicine and does not issue veterinary opinions.
§03The pilot
We are choosing design partners now.
A small number of consignors, working with their own veterinarians, who are willing to run this alongside their normal process for one season and tell us bluntly where it is wrong.
Free during the pilot. In return we ask for candour and for permission to learn from the outcome, never for your commercial information.
- Pilot cost
- None
- Your vet stays in charge
- Always
- Horses required
- Your normal draft
- We publish your results
- Never