Advice needed and help writing loan advert

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After a lot of thought and a lot of money spent in the few months since the horse came back from his disaterous sale I have decided to loan him out as I have realised, despite my best efforts, he's not going to make the jumping horse I want. I want to do some competitions, but his jumping is too hit and miss. He loves it be we cant get any proper consistancy. He would probably do a nice dressage test with the right person (he is starting to go well on the flat), but I'm not a fan so its best that I find him a more suitable rider. Are there people out there that will be happy just pootling around doing a bit of dressage? Also, given how many loans i've seen go wrong, would people be put off if I stated he was to be kept on my yard? I would more than likely give them free diy livery in return for this. And would it be ok to state on the ad that he's to be loaned to an experienced young person only? I'm not being ageist but he doesnt like the older generation, he wont even let them get on his back, so dont want to waste thier time.

The other thing is, is that I currently cant ride because of my arm, its likely to be about 8 weeks before I can get back on so do I loan him now, and get a friend in when I can to show him off. This may not always be possible because she works at the weekend. Or do I wait until I'm back riding, but that will mean height of winter? He is one of these horses that you can just jump on if he hasnt been worked for a few weeks, so know I can do that or are some people just happy to get on without seeing someone ride him?

Sorry for all the questions I've just never loaned before. Also does anyone have any pointers of how to write up the ad, PM me if you prefer.

Thanks in advance!
 
Start looking asap for a loaner, might take longer than you think. You can make any stipulations you want, and free diy livery sounds good value. Not sure about dismissing the older generation-what is your cut off point? And how can your horse tell?
 
horsemadmum1 said:
Start looking asap for a loaner, might take longer than you think. You can make any stipulations you want, and free diy livery sounds good value. Not sure about dismissing the older generation-what is your cut off point? And how can your horse tell?
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Dont ask me how he can tell, because I honestly dont know, he just seems to know! I'm nearly 30, so I would probably say an older teenager to someone up to about 35/40, he just seems to be a young persons horse. From what I can gather he's only ever been ridden by young people. And like I said dont want to appear ageist, but when he wont let them on his back (and I tried for nearly an hour with one person), theres no point them wasting their time coming out to see him. I know i'd be miffed if someone said yeah come see and then he wouldnt let me on.
 
I think that's a great loan arrangement. There are lots of people out there just wanting to toodle about and for free livery they should be snapping your hands off!!! Perhaps a nice quiet person that just wants to come along and hack/have fun would be suitable, not serious about competing.

Make sure you get a very veyr good loan agreement too. Decide whether or not you are letting them use tack, care arrangements etc. Write it down to the very last detail. I've had some real tricky, awkward and not plesant loan situations. However, the fact he will be with you is good as gives you more control. Good luck!!! :D
 
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The most important thing when loaning is to have a good agreement in place. If you google horse loan agreements then quite a few sits come up. I took one from an equine charity and tweaked iot to suit my requirements. This makes sure everyone knows where they stand and what they are responsible for.

Other than that it is up to you how you advertise him. Offering free livery would be a huge benefit to alot of people. However I found that when i put my horse up for loan that insisting that they stayed on present yard limited greatly the number of interested parties as you then only open it up to people who live within 15-20 mins of your yard really.

I decided that I would let her move and vetted her home before we agreed to let her go. She ended up about 35 mins away on a private yard with a lovely family! And then I made sure I went and checked on her unannounced every now and again. Wasnt really needed though as we regularly got phone calls to let us know how she was getting on.

It does take time! And I can garuntee you you will get some absolute plonkers call!! But if your patient you will eventually find someone for him. There are plenty of people out there wanting to hack and do a bit of dressage! thats what I do! lol

Good luck!! Hope you find someone for him!

Emily
 
make sure every little thing is written down in your loan agreement.
I have put 2 of mine out on loan and instead of advertising the horse i have looked for people looking for a horse to loan or people looking for a horse to ride.
I have found that the best way as you aproach people rather than getting loads of unwanted calls.
Also if it is a person looking for a horse to ride they wont want to move her
 
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