have you ever been given a horse?

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either as a present, or perhaps you rode for someone and they ended up giving the horse to you? or as a 'long term' loan?

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Yes, thats pretty much the deal with Blue and Holly
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i have to help B out a fair bit in return though, especially come Winter when they come in over night.
 
I was given 2 of my ponies.
The first we had on loan as the man who owned him was loosing his grazing so we had him for me to ride. The man had basically said he couldn't really have him back as he'd have nowhere to keep him. Then the man got ill and died and the daughter didn't want the pony back and siad we could keep him so we kept him until he had to be PTS.
The second pony we had on loan from a friend of my aunties who'd brought 2 ponies for his nieces, they'd been used for 6 months when the kids lost interest so the 2 ponies had just been chucked in a field. We had both of them on loan. After a year or 2 we didn't have a rider for the Shetland but he didn't want him back so told my auntie to find a new home for him and him and my auntie split the money. But we kept the other pony as i was still riding her then she was retired and we kept her until she died.
 
Yep, all 3 of mine! But dont tell the OH he thinks the 3rd one is just temporary!
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Touchy was given to me by my uncle when my old jumping pony was PTS, and Sov came via my trainer, Em came from Sov's owner as she was impressed with my progress`with Sov.
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Yes, I was given a stunning SecD gelding who was being neglected by his loaner. I knew him, his owner and his loaner (as we'd been on the same yard some time before).

I found out the loaner had basically just dumped him and gone off to another yard with her own horse, I informed the owner, who really wasn't in a position to take him back, so she gave him to me! I did make up a very brief 'agreement' which the old owner signed to pass him over to me, but we had nothing formal in place. I kept in touch with his old owner while I had him.

I kept him for 4 years and had so much fun with him, but had to eventually sell him (couldn't afford to keep two) which broke my heart. He was fab, and I adored him. I keep in touch with his new owner as well, and have been to see him several times in his new home!
 
i keep daydreaming that Frankie's owner is going to give him to me.......i love him but i want to move back down to Cornwall and take him with me. she said i could take him away 'as long as he was not too far away' Cornwall is a 3 and a half hour trip and 180 miles away
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she keeps saying that 'shes too old for this' (she has 4 horses) how glad they are that i am riding him, glad that i have stayed with him for a while (they have had other riders for him and they left) and that we get along great.

they'll probably say no
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Yes!

Bunny was given to me after she broke down pointing (I had her here at livery for the hunting season) and was lucky to have five lovely foals from her. She was put down at 17 with a tumour.
Jessie was a filly foal, a surviving twin but very small; a girl here on work experience fell in love with her and still has her, she is doing mounted games with her!
Irish was given me when she retired from going to TB stallions; I sent her to Bazaars Texas and had Joey, my coloured. She returned there but sadly died in the field a fortnight before foal (which was a bay filly we found out) was due to be born.
I was also offered another, Thatch, my horse of my lifetime after he had broken down badly out in the field but sadly, I just had no room for him and he was a horse that hated not being busy and mollicoddled; it would have upset him not being ridden, lame or not, I couldn't do that to him so he was put down; I still regret that more than anything but that is just being selfish, it wouldn't have helped him.
 
Yes my friend gave me a miniature she had rescued as a companion for my cob. I didnt really need him when I got my filly but I keep him anyway because he makes me laugh !
 
I was given an ex-racer 2 years ago following an advert in H&H 1000 & under section which was just titled 'Free to Good Home'. 150 people called about D'Accord in a day & half - I just managed to get in before they stopped taking any more enquires. Peter Snow, D'accord's owner got it down to a short list of 5 of us. I was second on the list. The lad that was in first place on the list lived 10 miles just down the road from Peter hence he was given priority over me, but Peter arranged for us both to see D'Accord on the same day at the training yard he was at. The 18 year old lad got there but wouldn't get on him (D'Accord had been out of work for a year as he had cracked his pelvis last time he ran when he slipped over in the winners enclousre at Goodwood). I got there and clicked with D'Accord straight away. Peter asked me if I wanted to get on him, so being me I shoved my tack on him and took him in a round pen where he bucked for Britain for 5 minutes ( I ended up letting go of the lunge rein he was flipping out so much!!). Once he settled down, Peter legged me up and after one inital paddy D'Accord settled and Peter immediately offered him to me! He is fab, he hates dressage but his jump is great fun and galloping on a former flat race winner gives you such a buzz
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I was given the horse of a lifetime by my old boss. I started work for her and from the second season onwards I rode him and noone else did and he was mine to hunt. When I left that job she gave him to me and he's come with me down to Dorset. He has some "issues" but I wouldn't change him for the world. He is pretty old but still full of life and was exceptionally wild in the high winds yesterday. We had a great time!!
 
Yep - after having a horse on full loan on and off for 12 years - i was finally given her last weekend as a wedding present ! not sure if they planned it or if it was me saying at the night do - 'are, is vixen my wedding pressie
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' i've been trying that for years - for my 18th b-day, my 21st etc but finally - they gave me her
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Have also been given two others over the years - i think i have MUG sometimes written on my forehead - ''awww, if i dont take on this horse with problems x, y and z, who will....'' LOL the other two i were given, i never knew the owners, one was quite local and the other over a hours drive away, they know thou that i could offer an excellent home for life and am not scared by horses with issues, i try and keep intouch with the old owners, the horses send flowers/cards at christmas etc lol!
 
I've been given a half share in one I was riding, so that the other half owner couldn't sell it.... v complicated!
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Yes my first horse Munni,
I started riding him for a lady that had cancer and was to poorly to ride him. She used to enjoy seeing me ride him up to her window 2 / 3 times per week so she could pat him. As she got weaker and more bed bound it just gave her a little something extra each day to see him at the window.
When she died her husband couldn't bear to see him as he reminded him of his wife so he agreed for me to have him on loan/ I moved him nearer home and never heard from the husband again.
I had him for 5 years then had to retire him due to old age. I tried to get in touch but couldn't but obviously word got out and he found out that I was no longer riding him. He panicked and thought that he would end up with a horse on his doorstep and sent his new girlfriend round to hand him over to me legally.
He had a lovely years retirement and was PTS on 9th Dec 3 years ago. He was the best horse ever and not a day goes by when I don't think about him and wish he was still around. He was 26 when he died so not a bad age for a 16.2 hh horsey. He is on the second to last piccie of my sig.
 
Yes albeit in a round about way
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Mare in question was a little erm manic
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We agreed to take mare for a 2 WEEK trial through a third party.

The third party lady dies
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and we have no contact number for the owner.

Owner contacts me 2 YEARS later LOL to ask if all is OK
I say Yes !

Don't hear anything for years.............

Owner contacts me about 8 years later (get the picture, see mug tattoed on my forehead !!!) and asks if I'd like to take ownership of the mare
I say Yes !!!

I loved her very much, she ended her days with me
 
My boy was given to me. I had him on part loan for a year and when I moved from Norfolk to London his owner couldn't be bothered with him so said I could take him with me. He's such a babe. I'm a very lucky girl.

I think too many people buy horses on a whim and then can't even be bothered to go to the effort of selling them on.
 
Great stories! I was "lent"an old pony gelding to keep my horse company, in a new country. The pony was to stay for two weeks...nearly two years on , he is still here, and is the BOSS.Trouble is, he doesnt understand English, and cribs, but he does a brilliant job.
 
Yes, we shared our fields with a lady who let me ride her horse for her, when she fell ill and later died she left me her horse in her will.
 
Years ago, a local farmer with some excess grass rented a field for a couple of weeks or so, to be used by a number of ponies who were, sad to say, due to be exported for meat. One of the mares foaled while there and when the meat ponies were taken soon after, the farmer hand reared the foal, then gave him to me to see if we could do anything with him. He grew into a 14.2 palomino. I had him broken, then brought him on a little with some help. He was sold to a local family at 5 yrs and made a nice Pony Club pony. A sort of a happy ending to a sad little story
 
My first cobbie was a birthday pressie and my second cobbie was a christmas pressie, both from OH. I have just been given 2 ponies by a lady who had them dumped on her. My first horse was a 'permanent' loan..
 
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Me too I was sat here crying when I typed it, it always does when I tell that story especially as its so close to the anniversary of when he was PTS.
 
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