Loaning horses

silvershadow81

silvershadow81

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Just wanted to see what most of you did when your horse needs to drop back down the levels, possibly through age or just not coping with higher levels, but is not ready to fully retire?

Do you loan them out, or look to sell on?

I've put an advert on H&H as looking for a loan horse which can still be competed at a lower level, but I am not too sure if anything like this actually exists?! I guess many will look to sell on??

Maybe my advert is missing something: http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/clas...horse-for-loving-competition-home-488055.html ?

Is there anything else I should add to the advert? (I am hoping this is ok to post as the advert is with H&H!) ;-)

If nothing crops up, ill look to buy something, but my funds are quite limited!
 
If I was loaning I would happily get in touch with you based on your ad.
The only drawback I see is that you want a horse aged 4-15. I would say there would be many more horses available to you if you didn't have the upper age limit of 15 years. It is usually around then or there abouts that horses will start to downgrade so you could be missing out on the opportunity to take on exactly the horse you want because it could be 17/18 but who could have many years left at lower level.
 
I would loose the loving home 10 star bit. Better to put long term experienced home.
You also don't state BS level. Huge difference between BN and Fox.
Possibly also remove 'compete weekly' and replace with 'compete on regular basis'.
 
I don't think it's far off, and if I was loaning I would probably contact you.
The main thing that would concern me is 'competing weekly'
 
Sounds good. Not much to add, but wanted to say I have a friend who took a 15yo on loan to jump 1-1.10m and it has been great. She has now purchased her for very little and is still competing at 17 so they are out there
 
muddy_grey said:
Sounds good. Not much to add, but wanted to say I have a friend who took a 15yo on loan to jump 1-1.10m and it has been great. She has now purchased her for very little and is still competing at 17 so they are out there
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Thanks MuddyGrey and for your suggestion yesterday to do this. My 28 year old evented until 23 (low level) so happy to consider older horses.
 
From my experience a lot of the really good ones go through word of mouth. But I must add that my experience is limited to BS Juniors as my daughter moved on to eventing so the profile is different. We had quite a number of loan horses with us to compete during her time as a junior. If you have a regular instructor or someone with reasonably high level contacts in BS that might be the way to go. If you want to loan rather than sell it is because you want to keep the horse (hopefully!) and that means it is more likely to go to someone from a personal approach than an advert - or at least that seems logical to me!

As another possibility what about something like Horses 4 homes? I've not used it myself but a friend was able to source the loan of a very nice dressage schoolmaster ready to step down that way.
 
My current horse is 15 years old, and when we decide he needs to compete at the lower levels he will probably be around 17/18 so maybe just widen your search in age range and don't specify an age.
 
Thank you, I have taken away the age reference, my other girl evented up to 23, so I am no stranger to looking after the older ones. We have a fantastic surface here too (Andrew Bowen) so ideal for older legs.

Will keep my fingers crossed an appreciate all the helpful comments so far, thanks x
 
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