Cheeky/ridiculous posts you see on Facebook.

That's quite a list of requirements! A confidence giving schoolmaster that can jump up to 1m20 would be worth it's weight in gold, I couldn't imagine many people wanting to lend one out for free to a random person on the internet. If I had one, the only possible reason I can think of to do so would be if I had a longish illness / injury / pregnancy, and it still wouldn't be going out of my sight!
Oh, and I really couldn't care less what brand the jumps were!
 
In my experience of loaning and seeing people look for loan horses, there’s even less sane people in that group than there are in the usual horse buying market. There are some really fantastic homes - but 90% just want a cheap horse or a temporary horse or one they can ruin without paying the eventual vet bill. The first of those means they often cannot afford decent care. The second leaves a sad horse who bonds and then is given back. The third is the worst - returning with injuries and/or ruined schooling and handling. It’s like a world of two extremes!
 
rabatsa said:
Has produced youngsters. So why not do so again and make the horse you want?
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I did also wonder this- the time it takes to bring a broodmare back into work is probably going to work out similar to the time you'd need to spend breaking in and fittening a 3/4yo. Either way, it'll be a good couple of years before the horse is strong enough to jump the courses they want.
 
I must admit those posts do grate! "I'm sick of producing' At 17! Wow poor you given all these horses to produce. And had an ex intermediate event horse for 7 years? What from 9 or 10?? Who gives a horse lile that to a young child. The scent of entitlement is pretty overpowering on that one.

As for 'she deserves a' .... . No 16 year old 'deserves' a very expensive horse for free!
 
I’m really pro loaning out. I’ve both done it myself and been the lucky recipient of actually quite valuable competitive horses.

So for me, I don’t mind the asking/advertising.

It’s the way the advert is phased that would either put my back up or not and unfortunately this one makes me look like Quasimodo
 
Ambers Echo said:
I suspect it can't continue because it's no longer legal or insurable. And that's probably because of excess litigation and of exploitation of young people. Whether it's a change for good or bad is up for debate I think. Yes a lot of valubale opportunities are no longer possible BUT also I was able to do crazy things as a kid which were fun but definitely not safe, and I suspect unpaid labour led to some sgnificant abuses of young people's desperation to ride or be around horses.

Are working pupil roles no longer around? If they are genuinely offering training, then there should be a scheme whereby they can. But with some transparency about what training you get for your labour.
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Think your first sentence is, as you say the reason..
65 years ago🫣 I rode my bike 5 odd miles to a riding school, (sometimes my dad took me) I along with other pony mad kids, mucked out, groomed, tacked up and now and then led small children on ponies, altered fences etc etc, sometimes we got a lesson on an actual pony, but our greatest joy was riding the ponies bareback along the road on the verges back to their field, we were not supposed to get out of a walk, but you can probably guess that as soon as we hit a grass verge zoom…
Best 2 years and when my dad thought I could look after a pony properly he bought me a pony, we were farmers so pony lived out…
I must also add that my sister and I rode anything on the farm with four legs, definitely the cart horses if we could, but also the older calves!!!
Certainly often it wasn’t safe as you say, but we had great times, learnt how to care for ponies, how to stay on, and never ever abuse….
Technical things were learnt from the Pony Club blue book!!
 
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