How do you get out and about with your horse [transport Q] ... ?

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Just wondering ...

How do you get out and about to competitions/fun rides/events with your horse?

Thanks in advance
 
I've just bought a 4x4, so this year will be either hiring or buying a trailer... once I've got used to driving the beast! I can't wait to have independence and get out and about properly.
Last year I hired a trailer once, and my RI gave me a lift to another event, as she was worried about the horse's energy level. I hacked everywhere else
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I used to be towed by my Dad with a trailer if I was going under my own steam but if it was a team event or my best mate/instructor was going I'd pinch a space on a lorry.
 
I don't have transport so hire a lorry. The downside is that I can only afford to do this about once a month
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so we don't get out anywhere near as much as I'd like, boo hoo.
 
I put other because I've got a 4.5tonne lorry
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Only problem is the stupid horse won't go in it!
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Weekends full of practising coming up.....I used to get lifts everywhere but since moving yards I've not been able to
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A good willing friend, who's parents have a 4x4 and trailer, I pay to keep the trailer at the yard so can go with my friend to shows. We have the same interests (local unaff jumping and hacking) so it works out really well.
 
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LMAO
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I have a big American horse trailer which carries 4 or 5 horses tied or it can be used as 2 looseboxes. I generally don't travel more than 2 horses at a time so I use the looseboxes for most of my travelling.

I have a big-ass 6 Litre Dodge Ram truck to tow it with.
 
I would say I have travelled well over 200 horses in my trailer and every single one chooses to travel backwards with their butts against the passenger side of the trailer and their heads looking out backwards on the drivers side. So a sort of backwards herringbone fashion.

I found this VERY interesting to see coming from a country where we put our horses into a tiny box where they cannot move and generally transport them facing forwards. I find it difficult to imagine transporting horses in any other way now.
 
Thanks Tia,, I was kind of thinking that the backwards position might be adopted.... .weird that they chose a certain angle too!! Is it maybe that their bums are towards the lower camber of the road???
 
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Ooh, I like the sound of that! I'd love to see the other mums faces at a PC rally if I turned up in that lol
 
That was what I figured, that the camber of the road must have something to do with it. And honestly, it is without question that they all choose to travel like this. So if I ever came back to the UK I would have to find or design a trailer which travelled horses in this fashion...not that I ever will return to England though
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LOL!! You'd have to save for a week to be able to afford to run it though. My truck is very greedy with the juice.
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