Loaning to Writtle College...?!

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Has anyone done this? I am popping up there to see them but just wondered if anyone has had any good or bad experiences?

I have never loaned my mare before so want to make sure she is well looked after in a loan home!
 
I wouldn't send my mare there tbh :( I attended for a year in 2007 and left as I didn't like the way the Horses were treated. PM me for more details if you want.
 
I wouldn't. Less because of the yard, more because of the students :eek:

I believe turnout is heavily limited (or so I was told by a student who had considered moving her horse there), if that would affect your decision.
 
JFTD you would be right in thinking the TO is limited. They used to have the 6 weeks summer holidays to play in the field. That was it.
 
A friend just qualified from there. The turnout is limited in winter.

Maybe also consider Oaklands College, St Albans. A friend has loaned her mare out there and is very happy. A kid at my yard did a year there: they're apparently very good. Think Pakkasham on here rides/rode there?
 
Any college is the same, working in one i know first hand. I worked with students at where our equine courses are run and the facilities are great and yard managers etc but the students have a mind of their own ;-) They think the odd sneaky sock in the gob will go un noticed ;-) And having been an equine student myself you see alot. Its not something i would do with my horses. Unless it was a high profile college/uni such as hartpury etc
 
Faracat said:
There have been alot of threads RE loaning horses to different equine Colleges and the general consensus is 'don't'.
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Re this, a friend loaned her mare to Moulton College for a while. The mare, who wasn't the easiest ride, was happy and contented when we went to see her (unannounced) - she had clearly been worked correctly and was loving being in regular work. She was being used for their better dressage kids, and obviously we weren't there every day, but she is the type to have made it known if she objected to anything! I can't speak for the amount of turnout she had, but there are many 'professional' riders who give their horses only limited turnout at best, and I don't think this is necessarily a huge problem if the horses are regularly exercised.

And just to make it clear, I have no connection or affiliation to Moulton!
 
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