Paying for re-schooling - how much?

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How much would you expect to pay per week to have a horse re-schooled? The horse in question is one that I bought a few months back and which is very nervous when ridden and bucks or threatens to buck as soon as the rider gets on. I have had back, teeth and tack checked by more than one professional and so have finally decided that it is a behavioural issue.

Also, how long would you perserve with the re-schooling? If no real improvements were made within, say one month, two months? I am wondering if it would be best to just let him live out in the fields if he really cannot be ridden and I can't sell him.
 
I would allow at least 3 months before deciding it wasnt working.

At the yard where my friend sent her horse for breaking, they do reschooling for £70 a week, inc the horses livery, and the horse is ridden 6 days a week. They did an excelent job with her horse.
 
I am so sorry you have this problem and very cross that the seller did not care enough about the horse to find it a suitable home.Did you ever find out its history ,as I would be interested?
I think £70 is VERY cheap and I think over £100 if it is in full livery and being schooled.Maybe cheaper to put it on project horses. Again I am so sorry for you and this horse.
 
I am currently paying £90 per week but I am not happy with the amount of work that is being put in and am thinking of going elsewhere.

carthorse - I will PM you with more details. I really appreciate the support you have shown me since I bought this poor horse.
 
I am about to send my horse off for three weeks at £250 per week. This is full livery incl. grooming, feed, hay, bedding, m/out etc and riding 6 times per week. I think this is quite expensive but IMO it's worth it for what I am getting.

I think for re-schooling you need to allow a few months to see results.
 
I am sure people will shoot me down for this but it might be worth sending him to an NH person. I wouldn't do it though unless I had the time/money to follow it through completely. I don't think it works if you ship your horse off and expect them to come back like schoolmasters.
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The point to point yard I used to work at, the lady who owns that is EXCELLENT adn also takes on a lot of problem horses, she is very kind and I learned so much working with her.
All the horses get the best care.

She charges about £150 a week I think including being ridden 6 days a week and full livery.(bit less if I know the person) She is in North Yorshire.
 
I paid £120/week for fully livery and schooling with a competion rider. You should PM Bossanova about schooling livery.
 
St_Bernard, would you mind PMing me her name? It may be the lady that I spoke to last week because she was in N Yorks. She sounded knowledgeable and also said that she reviewed the situation at specified intervals with the owner which I thought sounded very reasonable. Thanks!
 
I would be suspicious of paying less than £150 PW in my area for reschooling a ' problem horse'. Completely different from sending something away to further its competitive aims etc.
I would expect to see some progress ( even if only tiny ) within a month, and 3 months to hopefully turn something round to have a manageable ( highly suprised if cured) issue.
 
Thank you smerls. I think that is pretty well what I was hoping for but at the moment the whole thing seems far to open ended for my liking. Obviously, I don't expect a miracle "cure" but I would like to see some sort of checkpoints being built in to the re-schooling process so that improvements, however slight, can be recognised and built upon.
 
The guy who broke my mare for us (and has a couple of other HHO horses in at the moment) I believe charges £110 per week. He'd prefer to be described as an intelligent horseman, using what he's learned from the various "guru's" with a big dash of his own horse sense and common sense mixed in.

He's very sensitive to his horses and my young mare is currently at Pony Club camp with my daughter and is being much admired for her calm and sensible attitude - not bad for a newly broken PBA mare!

His own event horses were bought in as problem horses (one was "unbreakable") and he just seems to have a knack of getting the horses to want to behave well for him - and their owners once they return to them.
 
We charge £150 p/w including everything and riding 5/6 times a week.

Thats basically what we charge for all full livery/ breaking/ schooling/ problem horses...

I think that most of the time you get what you pay for.. An excellent rider is not usually enough, they need excellent facilities and a good back up team too!

Good luck!
 
bbmat is right- the best rider will not be able to help, if they dont have decent facilities that suit your horse ( including turn out in some cases) and a good back up team.
 
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