Letting someone else ride your horse

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Due to a change of job I am unable to ride every evening, my horse is kept at my mums house and her neighbour has offered to ride some evenings when I cant.

I am a little torn as my horse needs the exercise as she is only 9 and likes to be kept occupied but I don't want this person to undo the schooling work that I have done.

Am I being too harsh on the lady? She has had horses of her own and done a bit of novice eventing so not sure if I am being too overprotective of my mare! And what do I do or say if I don't want her riding anymore?
 
Problem is that she is not always a novice ride and I dont want this lady to injure herself, I have warned her and she doesn't seem put off!

Shall I just see how they get on? I'm also secretly worried that she might be better than me!!
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If this lady has had her own horses and has evented, I dont think you will need to worry too much about your mare not always being a novice ride. You can always ask to see her ride before coming to any decisions.
 
She wants me to be there when she first rides her which is to be expected really, I think that I will just have to see how it goes and go from there
 
i know how you feel - myself and my sharer have done loads to stop my pony napping/spooking/spinning and planting and are really pleased with her progress. One of the ladies at our yard is having areaaly bad time with her 5yr old ex racer who is riddled with artritis - she is doing all she can to help him but has not been able to ride for months - the back lady told her to do long lining for 10 days and came back on tues to say his back is not much better and she should get him refered to newmarket - she is so upset that i told her she could take pony out this morning - but i was so worried as one nap that is not stopped will put the pony back again - She went out and had a lovely ride and all was well thank goodness - so sympathies with your dilema and hope that all works out for you x
 
I have insurance but may be an idea to see if she has any!

She approached me about 2 weeks ago and I have not seen or heard from her since so maybe she has changed her mind and I am worrying about nothing!

Perhaps me saying that she naps put her off
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Ask her what she wants to do with the horse? If she just wanted to go on gentle hacks or something rather than schooling, surely that would be ok?

My main issue would be, what happened if she did get chucked off? Id be worried about liability in those cases....
 
Why don't the two of you ride out a couple of times together. See how she gets on with your mare and take it from there???
 
I have not ridden for 2 months now because of my back problems and have been told it will be another month...so have the same problem. I decided against getting a rider because my boy is going well with me and we have built up a lot of trust together. He is sharp and can take the michael if allowed...so my concern was that someone would try to change or improve him and I would not get back the horse I had when I can eventually ride again. I don't want someone deciding they are going to have arguements with him and get him doing things we don't do and then have a messed up horse when I get back on! I want my nice predictable horse back so I can plod about until I am strong again...but that is just my situation.
 
If she is better than you, take it on the chin and look at the benefits, she will improve your horse for you, if she isnt up to scratch with her flat work, then just ask her to hack out for you. I wish i could find someone keen to help excercise my two!
 
NOT IN A MILLION YEARS
sorry, but being the selfish moo i am, i have never and would never let anyone else ride my horse. she is so precious to me, that if anything happened to her, i would want to only be able to blame myself. its not to say that i rate myself as any better a rider than anyone else, but you get to know your horse's own foibles, and learn how to cope with them.

DONT DO IT!!!
 
I let other people ride Axey, if I know them well and know they can ride I don't worry at all as he's normally quite good.
When I show him he's often ridden by the judge anyway so I think its good that lots of different people ride him.

Sam x
 
If she's done BE Novice level eventing, she should be very competent. It may be called Novice, but it's not for novice riders.

She'll probably sort your horses napping out for you!
 
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