Average price of sending horse away for breaking

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What is the price you would expect o pay to send your horse away for breaking? Just having a nosey as I want to send mine away next spring so need to get the saving funds going!
 
Unfortunately their are a lot of con merchants out there so please be carefull and only use someone that has been recomended to you as being good by several different people that you know. Check out the yard and check out when your horse is at the yard.
You should expect to be paying about £200 - £250 per week.
 
Carrots&Mints I can recommend someone not too far away. Guy is based down the east Lancs. I know lots of horses that have been sent to him in the past and I sent my mare to him earlier in the year, he charges £120pw.

There is also someone in Todmorden who a friend of mine has used, again she'd recommend them, they were £130
 
madlady said:
Carrots&Mints I can recommend someone not too far away. Guy is based down the east Lancs. I know lots of horses that have been sent to him in the past and I sent my mare to him earlier in the year, he charges £120pw.

There is also someone in Todmorden who a friend of mine has used, again she'd recommend them, they were £130
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Please could you PM me with some details if youve got any?? Thanks :)
 
It depends on the area you live in. You also need to check you are comparing like for like services as some state a basic rate and then add extras whereas others are inclusive of all. Word of mouth is the best way to find someone, make sure you visit the yard, see them working similar horses and if possible talk to other owners who have sent their horses to the same place.

I send one of mine on schooling holiday livery for £87 a week, which was the same as he charged for breakers. I was very pleased with the work he did with my mare and she seemed happy (she is easily upset).
 
Im paying £120/week in cheshire. Horse stabled, no extras. Brilliant set up / facilities and smashing people. Know quite a few people who have used Foxmoss and all say the same. So would definitely go with word of mouth. Good luck, exciting times ahead for you.
 
Sorry to hijack our thread Carrotsandmints but does anyone have any recommendations for people in Kent? East Kent preferably :) Thanks.
 
I'd expect between 150 and 200 a week minimum. Definitely not the £40 a week the former owner of my recently sold chap paid to have him 'broken', which I didn't find out until I decided to sell... I think for that they just took him off the traile, put tack on, and got on. The end.
 
Spiritedly said:
Sorry to hijack our thread Carrotsandmints but does anyone have any recommendations for people in Kent? East Kent preferably :) Thanks.
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I know quite a few whom have sent their horses to Sam Castle (Eastry, near Sandwich) with good results. She has a FB page "Castle Stud". I know Jason Webb does backing, and had a FB page too.
 
Spiritedly said:
Sorry to hijack our thread Carrotsandmints but does anyone have any recommendations for people in Kent? East Kent preferably :) Thanks.
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I am hoping to send my rising 2 year old to Jason Webb as I've only heard good things about him. He's not cheap though at £270 a week! (I'm already saving!) Otherwise there's Suzanne Marshall who is trained in intelligent horsemanship in Upchurch near Sittingbourne who I believe also does backing.
 
Echo24 said:
I am hoping to send my rising 2 year old to Jason Webb as I've only heard good things about him. He's not cheap though at £270 a week! (I'm already saving!) Otherwise there's Suzanne Marshall who is trained in intelligent horsemanship in Upchurch near Sittingbourne who I believe also does backing.
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I was thinking of Jason but at £270 a week for 6 weeks he's a bit out of my price range at the moment. :(
 
Would definitely research who you are sending your youngster to. I looked around when I was sending my youngster away and it varied from £100 to £200. After listening to other peoples recommendations, I finally chose someone close to home and it cost £200 per wk but was definitely worth it.
 
Mine is in Essex and it is costing £150 per week. As he has proved a bit sharp if she needs to bring in a helper for the backing process I have to pay extra for him, which was discussed before I went there and I am happy with that. She is fab, a very nice lady and Piper loves her. She has turned him around in 3 weeks. They hope to back him next week, then a couple of weeks getting him going and hopefully he will come home after 6 weeks.
Spiritedly, she is near Chelmsford, that might not be too far from you?
 
It's around £100-£150 by me. My thoughts though are if you can do the whole getting used to tack, leaning over and long reining etc I feel it's better for the horse (and bank balance) most horses are easy to actually sit on them, it's the riding away part that upsets a few. Do things like standing on a mounting block while grooming, touching the other of the horse while stood at the withers, bit it, put a saddle on. Then once the horse is very happy with that lean start leaning over, then send it away, the trainer can then get on and do more with the horse as the basics would of been done at home, so if you have enough money for 6weeks livery a horse that was started would be further down the line then one that wasn't.

I did that with mine, but I felt happy enough with him and to do all the firsts aswell, as he was easy to do, like the first hack/canter etc. He is now away for schooling but is jumping courses and doing shows, we didn't run into any issues, so I saved my money and did the things I could do and the trainer is now getting the horse to a level where I can jump on and start competing straight away. (Just to add, I took my time, the horse has been broken in for a year, turned away then brought back into work)
 
Echo24 said:
I am hoping to send my rising 2 year old to Jason Webb as I've only heard good things about him. He's not cheap though at £270 a week! (I'm already saving!) Otherwise there's Suzanne Marshall who is trained in intelligent horsemanship in Upchurch near Sittingbourne who I believe also does backing.
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Knew there was someone else! Heard good things about her as well.
 
Costypop said:
It's around £100-£150 by me. My thoughts though are if you can do the whole getting used to tack, leaning over and long reining etc I feel it's better for the horse (and bank balance) most horses are easy to actually sit on them, it's the riding away part that upsets a few. Do things like standing on a mounting block while grooming, touching the other of the horse while stood at the withers, bit it, put a saddle on. Then once the horse is very happy with that lean start leaning over, then send it away, the trainer can then get on and do more with the horse as the basics would of been done at home, so if you have enough money for 6weeks livery a horse that was started would be further down the line then one that wasn't.

I did that with mine, but I felt happy enough with him and to do all the firsts aswell, as he was easy to do, like the first hack/canter etc. He is now away for schooling but is jumping courses and doing shows, we didn't run into any issues, so I saved my money and did the things I could do and the trainer is now getting the horse to a level where I can jump on and start competing straight away. (Just to add, I took my time, the horse has been broken in for a year, turned away then brought back into work)
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Thanks for your advice :) What I have done up to now is, Ive bitted him, weve been to about 4 shows (doing well may i add ;) lol) Ive leant over him about 4 times and i always keep just tapping his belly with my hands whilst being leant over. I put the roller on him the other day which was far too big so I thought 'sod it' and stuck the saddle on and he didnt batter an eye lid, so then I took him for a walk with the saddle on and stirrups dangling down and nothing! I was expecting a big fight, but nothing!! lol

Hoping to have him lunged and long reined by christmas and then he can chill out before I send him away in march/april time :)
 
When I used to do it, we charged £135 per week for grass livery and breaking. If the lunging/tack on etc has been done before it works out much cheaper, but I believe that a young horse grows up a lot in that period, so you also don't want to cut it too short! If the horse has had a little lunging before on a bridle but no saddle, I take 5 weeks to have it hacking out in walk and trot, nice and soft in the mouth and understanding simple aids. But then I don't believe in rushing them... it's so much easier to do things slowly to start, and never have a problem, than get the re-breakers in at 6/7 that have always been pushed too fast and have to start them again...
 
khalswitz said:
When I used to do it, we charged £135 per week for grass livery and breaking. If the lunging/tack on etc has been done before it works out much cheaper, but I believe that a young horse grows up a lot in that period, so you also don't want to cut it too short! If the horse has had a little lunging before on a bridle but no saddle, I take 5 weeks to have it hacking out in walk and trot, nice and soft in the mouth and understanding simple aids. But then I don't believe in rushing them... it's so much easier to do things slowly to start, and never have a problem, than get the re-breakers in at 6/7 that have always been pushed too fast and have to start them again...
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Yes that sounds perfect to me :) Like I said, Im hoping to have him lunging and long reining before I send him away. I was thinking about him being away for approximatly 6 weeks.

Also, what about if i got him with someone sat on him and having him being lead around before I send him away??
 
My personal opinion would be to leave the backing to people you're paying. You have to have whoever is on the ground really watching their face when you lean over and get boosted up for the firs time to make sure they look happy before moving on to the next step. The first time they move with a weight on can be a shock, have had a few shoot off or spook when they feel you, and you have to be very relaxed and just stay with them if that happens, and trust your ground person to hold them. It won't necessarily, but it CAN be a sticky point, so I'd leave it for them tbh. But if it's done quietly and professionally it should never be more than a little blip - if something goes wrong and both your ground person and rider are inexperienced, it can cause a real fear reaction next time, making your breaker's work more tricky.
 
khalswitz said:
My personal opinion would be to leave the backing to people you're paying. You have to have whoever is on the ground really watching their face when you lean over and get boosted up for the firs time to make sure they look happy before moving on to the next step. The first time they move with a weight on can be a shock, have had a few shoot off or spook when they feel you, and you have to be very relaxed and just stay with them if that happens, and trust your ground person to hold them. It won't necessarily, but it CAN be a sticky point, so I'd leave it for them tbh. But if it's done quietly and professionally it should never be more than a little blip - if something goes wrong and both your ground person and rider are inexperienced, it can cause a real fear reaction next time, making your breaker's work more tricky.
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Ahright cool :) Leave it to the profesionals is the saying!! :) Whden I leant over him before I was on a mounting block so he used to that aswell now, and my friend the breeder she was watching him and she said there was no problem :) I think Ive got a good un :) *crosses fingers and prays* lol
 
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