How to get back into riding after 2 years?

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Tori3610

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Hello 😊 I'm 18 and I'm from Northern Ireland but I moved to England a year ago under an apprenticeship. Anyway, I had been owning and riding horses since I was tiny, and sold my most recent horse in August 2016. It honestly broke my heart but I needed to do it to move over here. I've been away from it all for 2 years now and I've never missed something so much! All my friends back home still ride and I see their posts on social media and I hate not doing it! I work 4 days on, 4 days off and at the minute am earning £16000 a year. I've done the calculations for every cost there is with horses (the joys) and was just wondering do you think I could comfortably afford it? I was also wondering what is the best way to get back into riding? I was thinking of getting a horse on loan rather than jumping right into owning one. What's best?
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Hey Tori! I did it on that salary 20 years ago so you can too!

I shared a horse with a friend to begin with then loaned until I could afford to buy one. Good luck xx
 
I think you should look for a share (wont be difficult this time of year, lol!) the right horse and the right owner you could be looking at pretty much a full loan with owner riding occasionally! Worst case scenario you find a lovely share for two times a week that opens other doors for you later on. Good luck.
 
I earn 25k a year and have one horse on part livery. Ontop of my rent, food bills, livery, feed, farrier, vet and the rest, It's a struggle, I work behind a bar over the weekends to help have some emergency cash in my pocket. Maybe best getting a share as stated above?
 
I was earning around the same amount as you when I had "full" responsibility of my horse.
It's do-able but hard... I was saving for a house at the same time buy cut my cloth to suit.
But that being said I had a native so not accident prone or needing alot of feed, he was also very stable clean..... basically he was just "cheap to keep" in comparison.
There was things like regular competitions, chiros, horse whisperers... that lots of others paid for at the yard, I was never interested and even I was I couldn't have afforded it along with saving!

- I suppose it's really dependent on what you want :)
A share sounds like a better idea to me!
 
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