How far do you travel to see your horse each day?

Stables in the garden..well we don't have a garden really and field behind. No school and clay field so either rock hard or mud but I don't really do schooling!! Just hack around the grass tracks behind us and hunt. Lovely :)
 
mines in walking distance, stables, decent turnout (individual paddocks, however not post and rail which is a pain especially when your own horse is on the receiving end of another's anger and ends up in horsey hospital!), hacking is poor, but short trailer ride/dangerous hack to Sutton Park which I love! 20x40 outdoor arena never floods, able to ride in some of the fields, small set of poly jumps and full set of working hunter jumps, but there far to heavy to lift :P

So the yard isn't a anything special, but local to some good equestrian centres (solihull, eland, weston, rodbaston, got an olympic eventer down the road who does lessons on his fancy pants surface!) the PC here is very good too they have a nice place in the summer.

I love it here, it works for me as i;m on full DIY x :)
 
Mine have just moved from being 5mins away from home to 25mins away. I basically moved for better facilities - indoor/outdoors/ farm ride/xc courses
 
Going to the yard in the evenings, 1 hour through rush hour traffic. Coming home 40 minutes. At the weekend anything from 35 minutes to an hour and a half. Oh how I love London traffic.
Can't really find anything closer that provides more though - I'd love more turnout for him but the yards I've found with turnout are either further away or I wouldn't trust the staff with a calculator, let alone a horse. And I ride late in the evening, so I need a well lit yard with reliable schools, which I get for that.
 
Now 5 miles away less as the crow flies (10-12minute drive). Previous yard 20 miles away on part-livery with a dressage trainer. I hated it and lasted a year. Driving in the dark in middle of winter with commuter traffic blinding me to arrive at a deserted yard. Living 20 miles away when he had colic - never again. However if the yard had turned out better then maybe it might have been worth it but even so the drive was horrid.
 
Since moving house at the beginning of the year, my boy is stabled (on full livery) about a 12minute drive which is the nearest I've had in years and it's lovely. It's also on my route home from work and close to the gym, so I can usually combine seeing him with going to the gym on my commute home! However, in the past I've had him an hours drive away (lovely yard and trustworthy staff and initially I worked nearby, but then after changing jobs and moving house I couldn't find anywhere nearer with suitable facilities for riding after work so I kept him there) and then more recently a 35minute drive away (and not really on my route home from work so it was quite a trek) - I found both of these utterly exhausting as I spent so long driving to/from the yard especially in the bad weather and dark evenings when I was working full time (I generally allowed myself one day a week where I didn't visit him).
 
I moved my lad from a big pretty posh yard with lovely school, american style stables etc which was 20mins away to one 5mins away, it is a bit rough and ready but has indoor stables, a school and amazing hacking and only 8 other horses mainly because the yo had turned into a greedy money grabbing grumpy idiot, packing horses into fields, not resting said bare fields so they never had a chance to recover, my lad was forever coming in injured and grumpy due to boredom and lack of grazing and new horses constantly being introduced to the ever growing herd. Last winter he was reduced to a hat rack despite hard feed and as much hay as he could eat overnight, I heard about this new yard with split summer and winter grazing (30 acres in total) the most amazing hacking so grabbed the chance to move, I now have a happy verging on fat horse whos enjoyimg his new digs with just the one field companion.. oh and the 5 minute drive helped sway me :) Sorry off on a tangent there lol, horsewy happness was massively important in the decision.
 
Mine are on the other side of the village, a mile away. All the facilities I need, plus my own little block pretty much.

Turnout to manage as I wish, fairly decent winter turnout - I choose to keep them in more than I am asked to keep them in anyway.

Good surface, hacking, wash box, walker. Right in brilliant hunting country too.
 
12 miles and 15-20 min depending on traffic/ time of day. Only a small yard, all year turnout with 24/7 in summer (april - oct ish), day time in winter. 25 x 50m sand/rubber arena, SJs, everything well looked after, huge (12 x 16ft) outdoor stables, great hacking, really close to some nice competition venues. YO is amazing, really knowledgeable and horses are all looked after brilliantly. YO events, as does her groom, and the other liveries also all compete so it's really spurred me into action to crack on.
 
Less than a 3 minute drive...and is a minutes walk up the lane from my mums house. Its just a rented block of 2 stables, tack room and field. Ideal as I can get my stepdad to feed in the mornings !
 
I practically live on site now :D lmao Mummy J's (YO) oldest daughter. However realistically I only live 2 miles away.

When I first moved here, I lost out in the use of a bigger than standard sized arena substituted for a flat grass paddock area. However gained better grazing as instead of 30 horses on the yard, its only my 2 and YO's 4 with more than 3 acre per horse. We also have our stables in a barn, so its all undercover. Endless off road hacking and have just started the build of our own indoor arena.

So we see the move was good. We lost the social side of a livery yard but we're practically family here and have close horsey friends nearby and that we meet up with at comps and hunting.

Swings and roundabouts really, but both me and the OH are defiantly happier.
 
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