How much do you charge a sharer to ride your horse ?

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To help pay for my horse to go into part livery from DIY, Im thinking of getting a sharer.
Hes a safe native x tb , 15.3 , 11 yrs. Good to hack, in traffic, catch ,handle, doesn't buck etc Hes been in loads of RC teams for ODE & SJ. Loves his jumping and hunting and does dressage if he has to ! The sharer can do clinic s and compete etc How much do you think I should charge someone ?
 
My sharer paid £80 a month and gave petrol money towards going to shows ( if she wanted to compete ) - horses were out 24/7 with no poo-picking to be done.
 
140.00 and half the shoeing .. 17.3 TB X 10yrs ... she does 2 days a week ... the mare is very low milage and not a novice ride can be spooky out hacking and just starting to work nicely in the school she is like riding a baby in terms of schooling she only started life as a fit pretty pony 3 months ago. Hasnt started jumping yet she isnt ready but sharer is allowed to take her to sponsored rides and fun shows at the moment however by the summer hopefully the mare will be jumping and sharer can have lots of fun !!
 
Ella19 said:
It depends where you are in the country! For 2-3 days excluding chores in Surrey the going rate seems to be £200 pcm
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WHAT?!?!?!?!

are you kidding me?! i've had several sharers and charged them £15pw. They were reluctant/unable to pay the £20pw that I wanted. no stable duties either (although they probably would have done them had I wanted them to)

In the end I decided I just wanted him ridden rather than the cash.

I'm finding it so hard to find a new sharer - have advertised in all the usual places and put the word out but seems no one wants my lovely boy :(

(I'm on hants/wilts border btw - maybe I should move!)
 
I charged mine £10 a week (and half towards feet trimmed every 8 weeks) for up to 6 days riding. Apparently it was too expensive :p
 
I asked for £10 per day for 2 days a week. She had the odd extra day for free and mucked out on her 2 share days although I quite often mucked out before she got there. She got free transport to shows etc and obviously just had to pay her entry fees. :)
 
noodle_ said:
i paid £10 per day

i may be getting a sharer in summer for hacking and i wont be charging :) nor will i want any jobs done....

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see, I'd be up for this but I'd worry about their commitment if they weren't paying, even if it was just a nominal amount.
 
I used to pay £100 pcm for 3-4 days per week, inc one weekend day. Thats on DIY in Hampshire. Seemed to be about average at the time (about 5 years ago now though).
 
Wow some of these figure i find ridiculous for someone helping YOU out. Yes they are getting to ride your horse but I mean they could keep their won for what some people are charging :eek:
 
I charge my sharer (also my best friend) £50 a month, she gets 3 days a week to ride including one weekend day. She will also help with yard duties when he moves back on to DIY and when her broken knee is fixed : s
 
maletto said:
see, I'd be up for this but I'd worry about their commitment if they weren't paying, even if it was just a nominal amount.
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i agree..

but to me though id just find someone else as im not desparately needing a sharer- i just want my horse to go hacking as i wont do it :)

shes safe as... but a baby so needs to go see the world :)
 
NiknKia said:
Wow some of these figure i find ridiculous for someone helping YOU out. Yes they are getting to ride your horse but I mean they could keep their won for what some people are charging :eek:
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You couldn't keep a horse on £30 a week around here...

It also kind of depends on why you are sharing. I have never shared because I needed help with exercise I have only shared when I needed the money or when I felt my boy could give a teenager a schoolmaster experience.
 
I have just taken on a sharer and she will be paying me £35 per week for 3-4 days this includes mucking out etc.

She has owned horses before and appreciates how costly mine ( TB ) is to keep and we are probably in one of the most expensive places in the UK.

If they are just wanting to pay to ride then it may be cheaper to go to a riding school, however sharing is just that, spending time with the horse etc not just turning up to ride.
 
Crikey I let my sharer do mine for free! I didnt need the money just wanted someone to ride when I didn't have time.

When i used to part loan I paid £20 a week to ride and do chores as often as i wanted, on an excellent comp yard! Cheap as! oh and fuel and entry fees for comps.
 
Mine now pays £25 a week for 2-3 days (used to be £20 had to up it as costs all went up for everything including livery, have a sharer for purely financial, my horse will jump 1.60, has competed up to 1.30 and medium dressage, is a great safe hack etc abseloute schoolmaster so not an average riding school horse and hard to come by share wise - but by the same token I wouldnt let just anyone share him!). I think this is still quite cheap in my area, other people on my yard charge £25 a week plus shoes which are £70 every 6 weeks for not that amazing horses!!
 
Blimey guys! I'd be able to keep my own for some of these charges!

I share one horse and pay for his shoes and ride about 3/4 times a week, and the other I muck out and turn out her other horses every morning and get to ride a few times a week, no money either way.

I'd never consider paying £100plus a month! You could save up and get your own after about a year!
 
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I dont think I would ever pay to share a horse, other than money towards shoes.
I see sharing as doing the owner a favour (the owner doesnt want to do the horse 7 days a week, so sharer steps in)

Maybe I only feel this way because I am a groom so paying to do my job seems bizarre!

Any horses I ride outside of my job I ride as a favour / I do chores. I would pay the full cost of shoes if I was the only one riding.
 
Hollysmum said:
My sharer paid £100 per month for 2 days per week :)
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Just wanted to add some additional information...

Paying £100 per month to share my mare 2 days a week works out as £11.50 per day - You wouldn't even get a half hour lesson at a decent riding school for that nevermind a horse to treat as and call your own on your days! There are no chores involved as she is kept on full livery, I also ensure that any sharer is covered by my own insurance so there is no additional cost getting their own riders insurance! The yard she is on also has well maintained facilities (indoor school, outdoor school, cross country course, miles of off road hacking)

I know people who charge £45 per week for 3 days, they have to have their own insurance and they still ride the horse on the sharers day... now THAT I think is totally unreasonable! (I don't go near mine on their days unless they need/want me there)
 
Surrey prices are riduculous whichever way you look at it. Yard rents are extortionate especially if you have half decent hacking. My GRASS livery is £240pcm and if you have your horse on part your looking at £500pcm and full well over £600pcm this is for a yard with some form of sandschool, hacking and a field that's it!

So that helps to justify the share prices round here. Last YO rented riding school ponies out for share for 4 hrs a week for £200pcm
 
See the cost depends on how big a favour your sharer is doing YOU.

When I was at uni I had a sharer for mine- she had him 3 days a week, and I did not charge her a penny- I wanted the TIME not the cash.

I now share a 17hh warmblood that i can do pretty much whatever i want with- i choose to have him two days a week as that is what suits me. On those days in winter I ride, muck out up to 3 horses, bring three in, hay, water, feed (if it has not been done- it is not every week). In summer I poo pick the fields. I pay £50pcm.....

I would not pay more than this to be honest- not for the arrangement I have- as i can end up doing 3 horses a night.

Those who say I charge £X because my horse is on full livery- well you chose to have it at an expensive yard, why should the sharer pay through the nose?

To whoever said "surely a sharer should pay half"- that only works if the owner is prepared to relinquish half responsibility, and allow the sharer to have half input into things like feed, rugs, shoeing, what the horse does and when .... all management aspects--- which in reality will never happen.

I think £10 a day is about right- yes location plays a part but I managed to find mine on the Surrey/W.Sussex borders!
 
Dolly's sharer pays £20 a week. She shared Dolly long before I bought her, and I was happy for her to stay sharing if she wanted. She used to do 2 days a week, and contribute to shoes. She now only does one day a week (her choice, she knows she can do more if she wants), and I stopped her contributing to shoes, and said she could just give me £10 a week, but she was happy to still give £20 and occasionally rides during the week if she is free.

Mac's sharer pays £20 a week and can ride him as often as she likes. She doesn't have to do any jobs unless she wants to. She is in today, but I have been up already and turned him out, mucked out, done haynets etc. She will finish him off and put him to bed before she goes home later.
 
I live in Bristol and have had a couple of shares - the first one I paid £100 a month. He was on DIY livery and used to do him a min of 3x a week - used to do everything on 'my' days - and was a very flexible arrangement so would help his owner out doing more days if she was stuck/ away etc. He was an absolute poppet - very safe to hack, owner had competed to pre-novice standard, good to jump, school etc. Oh, and to compete I would have covered cost of petrol (or split if we were travelling with another). Second share (kept on her own land so no livery costs) I paid £50 a month to basically cover his shoeing, and then paid for his yearly dentist visit (£70) and his supplement which worked out as about £90 every 3/4 months. He was a much older chap and mostly just hacked/ schooled him, but was going to start competing/ RC rallies and would again have split cost of petrol.
 
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