zola89
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I will definitely use preloved but am a bit unsure about using facebook as have heard you get all sorts of replies! Can anybody recommend any other sites that they've had a good experience with?
Best place to advertise a horse for loan
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Ellzbellz97
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Horse and Rider, horse mart etc.. Preloved is probably the best I found all my old loan horses on there when I was a teen 
splashgirl45
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why not try local tack shops, feed merchants and local riding clubs.....as well
J&S
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Is the horse suitable for RDA? I am assuming you want to loan horse out not take a horse on loan).
Courbette
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Sounds obvious but if your on a livery yard stick an advert up. My old yard has a notice board for things like that. My new yard is much bigger but doesn’t so people rely on word of mouth which isn’t anywear near as effective.
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite
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This is a suggestion which might not suit every owner or every horse, but if you think your horse might be suitable you might consider a "working livery" loan to an equestrian college.
You would need to commit to loaning your horse to them for an academic year, i.e. September through to June, and your horse would need to meet whatever stipulations they lay down i.e. size/age etc. Mine went there when he was totally green and they sorted him out! He became a very popular boy on the yard. They may also take youngsters and/or backed-and-ridden on, and if that is the case they would make sure that only a certain level of students rode or handled.
Like I say, it might not be what you want to do: if your horse is the "bog-standard" type then you'd have to be prepared for the fact that numpty students will be riding it whilst prepping for BHS exams etc, but the arrangement suited me very well as I had a caring commitment and it meant that my boy was "sorted" during the term time. I could ride by arrangement at weekends and one afternoon during the week, and there were lots of competitions going on which you could participate in as well.
My local equine college charges £18 for working livery; during the college holidays - unless you can bring your horse home or make other arrangements elsewhere - you will have to pay full price for livery, so you need to factor that in.
Also (word of advice if you DO go for this arrangement): label EVERYTHING, and I mean everything. Reins, stirrups/leathers, girths, every part of your bridle, rugs, the lot. I used little metal dog-tags, key-ring labels, sew-on labels, laundry pen, the whole shaboodle! And still your stuff will end up walking.......
PM me if you want to know more about things.
You would need to commit to loaning your horse to them for an academic year, i.e. September through to June, and your horse would need to meet whatever stipulations they lay down i.e. size/age etc. Mine went there when he was totally green and they sorted him out! He became a very popular boy on the yard. They may also take youngsters and/or backed-and-ridden on, and if that is the case they would make sure that only a certain level of students rode or handled.
Like I say, it might not be what you want to do: if your horse is the "bog-standard" type then you'd have to be prepared for the fact that numpty students will be riding it whilst prepping for BHS exams etc, but the arrangement suited me very well as I had a caring commitment and it meant that my boy was "sorted" during the term time. I could ride by arrangement at weekends and one afternoon during the week, and there were lots of competitions going on which you could participate in as well.
My local equine college charges £18 for working livery; during the college holidays - unless you can bring your horse home or make other arrangements elsewhere - you will have to pay full price for livery, so you need to factor that in.
Also (word of advice if you DO go for this arrangement): label EVERYTHING, and I mean everything. Reins, stirrups/leathers, girths, every part of your bridle, rugs, the lot. I used little metal dog-tags, key-ring labels, sew-on labels, laundry pen, the whole shaboodle! And still your stuff will end up walking.......
PM me if you want to know more about things.
zola89
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Thanks for all your replies!
She definitely wouldn't be suitable for the RDA unfortunately and I'm not sure about whether she'd be suitable for a college but I might do some googling. She's pretty good in the school but isn't always the easiest and can be a bit dramatic sometimes so not suitable for novices.
She definitely wouldn't be suitable for the RDA unfortunately and I'm not sure about whether she'd be suitable for a college but I might do some googling. She's pretty good in the school but isn't always the easiest and can be a bit dramatic sometimes so not suitable for novices.
BOWS28
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Don't let that you rule out sending her to a college. They will ride her first and will then only assign them to students that are capable of dealing with her. I rode all sorts at college and some were a real handful! They assigned the 'testing ones' to a select few in the top group.
Errin Paddywack
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My sister let her gelding go to a college. Only found out when we took him over that she had to pay towards his shoeing and fetch him home in the holidays. As she wasn't going to be riding him and they had full use she wasn't very happy. He went with brand new stirrup leathers and irons, they refused to use the irons as they were nickel not stainless steel and when he came home permanently we discovered his stirrup leathers had been swopped for old and much smaller ones. Never did get the genuine ones back. They weren't marked unfortunately.
On the plus side they schooled him very well, he was a much improved animal when he came home. He was completely clipped out which meant my sister had to get rugs for him as we don't have stables. However he was so popular and had obviously been used so much that his back had gone nearly bald under his saddle.
It wasn't an experience either of us wanted to repeat.
On the plus side they schooled him very well, he was a much improved animal when he came home. He was completely clipped out which meant my sister had to get rugs for him as we don't have stables. However he was so popular and had obviously been used so much that his back had gone nearly bald under his saddle.
It wasn't an experience either of us wanted to repeat.
BOWS28
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Blimey, you must have picked a rubbish college. The horses where i went to college were treated like royalty and never worked more than 2 hours per day and they all had Friday, Saturday and Sunday off unless the owners wished to ride them.