Benedict was surrendered after his owner was unable to afford another surgery that he required for his sinusitis. He is a beautiful young Clydie cross unbroken but handled.
Update 17th September 2026 – Benedict was referred to Gatton Equine vets and have a CT scan done. This was to check if his sinusitis was coming from his two previous tooth removals. And it was. This would mean a big surgery to go back into both sides, to attempt clearing out the sockets of the residue in there. The surgery alone would be $10,000 plus the CT which was $3000. He would then need another CT to make sure everything was actually removed. Another $3000. Because if it wasn’t, the same problem would reoccur.
On top of this, the CT showed up SIX more teeth on Benny that had cavities in them already. Six more compromised teeth that would eventually need surgeries to remove. How much bad luck could one horse have?
Well, there’s more. Benny has a sarcoid on his nose that was quoted $1500 to remove, with the possibility of return if the margins weren’t taken completely out. His poor owner had been told by someone that this was a mole, and nothing to worry about. It has already doubled in size in the past year. So it’s definitely something that needed to be worried about.
After speaking with the surgeon, basically the end result is that Benny has a lot of compromised teeth, and at such an early age. We’ve seen this before in another horse who sadly had to be pts, and the vet said it comes from nutrition. Bad nutrition for a mare whilst in foal, and bad nutrition through the early years of a horse’s life can really set it up for failure. Things don’t get strong as they should, and sadly, the cost to try and fix it later down the track can look like a very big black hole.
The sad part is that his owner bought him from someone who didn’t even remember his history. How they got him or how long they’d had him. So God knows where he was bred or who by.
We bought Benny home from the vets, and he’s out in a big paddock without any knowledge of the doom and gloom that us, as his carers, are having to face up to.
Benny’s owner is coming to be with him as he is given his wings. We can’t leave him with infection in his tooth sockets. We don’t want to prolong him being in pain. And sadly, we just can’t fix him.
