How much does sending your horse away for schooling generally cost?

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I had such a great lesson today with the muppet that I'm seriously considering changing his career path from SJ to BD.
The basics are all there but he could do with a bit of schooling from someone who has more experience than me.

My RI thinks he could go to medium level :eek:
I, on the other hand, haven't done much more than basic lateral work and the last dressage test I entered was a prelim in 2004-ish :p

So I was wondering how much it costs to have your horse professionally schooled - just a ballpark figure as obviously it depends on the person/time etc etc.
If I wasn't to send him away, would £60/45 minutes sound right? that's how much I was paying for a private lesson.
 
I paid £100 per week for my mare to be broken to drive (I appreciate that's a different discipline) and that included full livery - was on a very respected competition yard with excellent facilities and care.
 
I would say it depends who it is and where it is.

My mare at the moment is being schooled and its £195 per week, when I was looking around I got quotes from £150/60 to the £195, I went for the yard/person who suited me best and of course its the most expensive!!
 
Not quite the same thing, but I am about to send a 3 yr old to be broken in and it would usually be £100 per week all in (the horse will be at the trainers yard). However, he is doing a 'special offer' at the mo for £70 per week.

So I imagine this would be there or thereabouts what you might expect to pay.

Do you know who you want to send the horse to? You may have to bite the bullet and ring up and ask.
 
Mine went off to a pro for schooling on. It cost me £140 per week, incl food, board and ridden sometimes twice daily (hacked and schooled). He was there 6 wks and at the end the pro took him to a dressage comp and won it, so was worth it.

Liz
 
I have absolutely no idea who would offer this sort of thing tbh
The only dressage person I know of in my area is Jill Grant and I don't know if she offers schooling services.

I would prefer to keep him at home but I can understand that it's not always possibly to get people to come to you.
I don't know if the fact that he's not a youngster will make a difference either - he's a 20yo KWPN who's mainly been jumping for the last 10 years and I've decided that it's not fair to keep pushing him.
 
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