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Gosh I'm sure someone will have just the thing and be delighted to do that.

Has made me think though, my now 3 year old is going out on summer loan next year. Before he goes he will have 6 weeks at a professional yard (paid for by me) to restart him and get him going. Hes then going on loan to a girl who will keep him at a livery yard. I can and will ride him occasionally. Its doing me a huge favour as hes done nothing and as he will be kept at a yard I can hack out with people. (Its the yard I work at). It suits her as she only wants a horse from May - September and loves schooling youngsters.
I will pay for his feet as I like my farrier. I have said he has to go to that yard and not a cheaper one. If full livery is £100 a week what do you think would be a fair share?
 
Hmm i wonder how many offers she will get... Unless you had a major lack of time etc.
She's basically asking for a free loan, of a v.good sounding horse.

What fails to amaze me is the amount of people putting up ads of preloved etc where i almost cannot understand what they are saying.
Eg just a giant mass of words, with no full stops, basic spelling missing.
I'm not a snob(!), but i wouldn't want to either loan out or be a loaner to someone who appears to lack any common sense in writing ads!

Clodagh, it's hard to say, the situation sounds of mutual benifit to both of you. However, he is not a ready made horse as a youngster at that age it's more a case of bringing on, not gallavanting to shows etc. It depends how much freedom she will have with him though- you have specified (an "expensive") yard already, you'll probabally have v. close supervision of them both working on the yard. Tbh i think she should pay £40- for the livery. Maybe go halves on routine extras and feed etc? See what she suggests and vice versa.
 
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Oh wow...

When I was looking for a sharer for my boy I did come across some interesting ones like that. One girl said she loved horses, had ridden all her life, done stable management etc, but concluded by saying she finds doing up girths hard so I would have to be there to do it for her each time...

Another was illegible. "I is well into horses and love em but had loadsa kida n that so stopped for years but im well experienced but a bit fat so is he big lol".

Passed on both...
 
claudiacox14 said:
Oh wow...

When I was looking for a sharer for my boy I did come across some interesting ones like that. One girl said she loved horses, had ridden all her life, done stable management etc, but concluded by saying she finds doing up girths hard so I would have to be there to do it for her each time...

Another was illegible. "I is well into horses and love em but had loadsa kida n that so stopped for years but im well experienced but a bit fat so is he big lol".

Passed on both...
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You get great replies when you advertise your horse don't you! I put my Welshy up for loan years ago, saying he needed an experienced rider... I got a text reply along the lines of "hv hd 6 riding lsns and cn jump, gallop, trot and walk. when cn I hv ur horse?" Funnily enough I didn't reply!
 
Would I loan to someone like that, not a chance, I agree with the not being able to string together a correct sentence.
However there is someone on competition riders forum that is looking for someone to help her ride her horses and go to shows (riding at shows dependant on the person), but can't find someone that wants to ride for free and she only wants help at shows.
Probably one of these things that where people who are experienced enough to ride already have a horse and not interested in taking on more without being paid for it, and those that don't want paid for it don't have the experience (although I do think that sometimes young people are over-looked, yes some of them wouldn't know how to tie their own shoe laces, but some of them are really quite good riders and just need a bit more experience)
 
chestnut cob said:
You get great replies when you advertise your horse don't you! I put my Welshy up for loan years ago, saying he needed an experienced rider... I got a text reply along the lines of "hv hd 6 riding lsns and cn jump, gallop, trot and walk. when cn I hv ur horse?" Funnily enough I didn't reply!
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I used to get so many people saying "I can walk trot canter and gallop". This would put me off instantly, seemed like they were either joyriders or people listing all 4 speed settings to appear knowledgable...how many riding schools do you know that have you galloping round in a lesson?! Good ones anyway!
 
'must be able to take good amount of weight as well'

bablefish translation : 'am chronically obese so will expect new bespoke saddle thrown in '

:D
 
animal said:
Clodagh, it's hard to say, the situation sounds of mutual benifit to both of you. However, he is not a ready made horse as a youngster at that age it's more a case of bringing on, not gallavanting to shows etc. It depends how much freedom she will have with him though- you have specified (an "expensive") yard already, you'll probabally have v. close supervision of them both working on the yard. Tbh i think she should pay £40- for the livery. Maybe go halves on routine extras and feed etc? See what she suggests and vice versa.
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I think that sounds reasonable, and sorry for not replying sooner - missed it.
 
From reading the advert I'd say the punter is quite young, i.e. teenager - hoping that someone somewhere will basically give her a "free" horse to ride and swan around on.

She/he sounds like a novice who has no idea of the responsibilities involved in loaning and/or owning a horse, but thinks that everyone else owes her the privilege of being able to ride.

IF she's got no money (which of us isn't a bit skint at the mo???) then surely she could offer to do work in exchange for livery? I can't honestly think that anyone is going to respond to such a badly worded advert anyway so think she's going to end up very disappointed!

But it is unbelieveable what some people expect from a loan horse: you don't have to look very far to see people wanting the perfect plod - for nothing!!!
 
I had one girl ring me once and presumed that I would just allow my horse to move to her yard. Fair enough if she'd actually come up to the yard to ride but she thought it would just take a phone call! I kindly explained that he was my horse and that I would decide what happened rather than be told by her!

Having wanted a horse from a young age I understand their enthusiasm but really?
 
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