People who horse share - info please

I have just started a share 3 days per week hes on diy so on those days i do everything..and in return i pay £100 towards his livery. I think this is pretty normal. you can get a contract of sort apparently from the bhs website which i am still trying to find!
I hope this helps. i gues price wise it would also depends greatly on where in the country you are and also the type of livery your horse is on..I saw on for 250 per month as the horse was on full livery..
 
Hi I pay £50 a month but I have have had to buy everything new for it as no tack, etc. No contract (I know!) Hardly ever see the owner, sometimes thats good but not atm where he cant be ridden due to an abcess making him lame. not happy about paying for a horse I cant ride!
 
Horse is on DIY but I would happily do her on a daily basis. I presume you pay £100 per month, not week?!

Do you get to compete? Do you have any restrictions as to what you can do?
 
TBH,I have never charged...infact all I wanted was exercise for my horse! When I owned my TB mare I had a Swedish girl who was insistent in paying for her shoes!
I have not had one since owning my cob,but I think you need sit down with a potential sharer and discuss what you both want out of the share.......and be very clear and defined about it,then have the contract drawn up....Oh Yep,always put it in writing,safer!
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Every share is different,and has to work round all parties involved,so tricky to give T&C's!
 
I dont share but friend shares her horse ...... she charges £25 a week all in for 3 days ( 2 weekdays and 1 weekend) she turns out brings in but asks on the 3 days the horses sharer mucks out ( in winter as horse out 24/7 in summer)
She is also quite easy going about it all and sharer often comes if we x country school or anything and has a go, and at shows will sometimes come and jump the smaller class.
She amended the BHS full loan agreement to suit what she wanted.
Horse is insured for all vets fees and she insisted sharer had riders insurance.
 
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Hardly ever see the owner, sometimes thats good but not atm where he cant be ridden due to an abcess making him lame. not happy about paying for a horse I cant ride!

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Welcome to the world of owning horses!! Sometimes they are lame, they may have thrown a shoe or they may not be well - us owners still have to pay! Ive seen it before (not with my own!) - slight problems and the sharers off like a shot (saying that i suppose i would too!
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Although Hannah is on full loan now, I have shared her with great success in the past. I always offered up to 3 day per week including one weekend day. She was on assisted DIY at a good yard and her keep would have been about £250pm. I charged the sharer £100pm. They could have competed if they wanted.

Hope that helps
 
i have generally paid about £20 - £25 pounds a week plus shoes, I have done as much riding wise as i wanted and ususally end up with them on full loan after a while! you should agree a minimum yard work/care per week that they expect you to do as that can be a flash point and what days the owner generally wants to ride as they will expect you to take second place then, the owner should keep up the insurance for their own protection more than anything and you should let them see proof of rider insurance on your side so there can be no grey area - if you are up front and address everything at the beginning even if it sounds trite you will be fine.
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i have however only had old boys on a share/loan agreement and it may be different for competition horses

and i have now got my own boy - yippeee but i am sure one day i will need a sharer for him too - nothing is ever sodding easy!!!
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I think you are acquainted with my share horse and her owner, Weezy ! I pay £20/week, and for that I basically get a lovely horse to do with as I please, as her owner doesn't ride her anymore. I am allowed to compete her if I want, as well.
 
i have a sharer for my boy, i didnt want to get money involved as although it would be handy i just wanted to keep it friendly. She has him tues thurs and sat and she just does him (diy) on her days. Gives me the freedom to have help when my baby is ill or i have to work, to not ride and not feel guilty as i know shes riding him, but most helpfully it means we can have spontanious nights away and lie ins which keeps the oh happy!!! i do him if shes away which she is alot so it works both ways. She can ride/compete him at will too. I pay for everything, his shoes only last 4 weeks as we do so much hacking but i wouldnt want her to pay as it would change the dynamic and i like to call the shots.Guess its each to their own really but i couldnt survive without her. One thing that is good is we keep a diary to list what hes done that day - is useful so we can make sure hes not jumping every day or write down anything we want to work on.
 
When I shared mine, whilst pregnant, I split the livery cost down and she paid for 4 days, I paid for 3. My sharer didn't pay anything else, no contribution for feed or shoes, although she did buy him nets of carrots. We didn't have a contract, maybe foolishly. If I was to do it again, I would more than likely put something in writing.
She could do anything she liked with him and the idea was that I would transport her to shows. As it happens, it didn't quite turn out like that but that's another story.
 
I had a sharer for my youngster, she took care of him and rode 3 days a week, I charged her £15 a week as he was very cheap to keep
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Me and my sis share new ponio, and everything is halved down the middle. (But he is on loan, so neither of us had to fork out to buy him)
 
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My cousin rides my horse twice a week, and competes in dressage comps.

When I go to uni she will pay for shoes (fronts only every 8 weeks so not that bad) and hard feed. She also pays her own way at shows. She also mucks out on her days.

We are both very happy with this arrangement, and I have loaned/shared horses in the past with success.
 
I have a sharer who pays a fixed £20/week. She can do up to three days a week from- Tues, Thurs & Sun and if she were to want to compete (and it wasn't a show I was wanting to do!), I'd let her. Yard has good hacking (lots of off road as well as stubble fields) and a big floodlit outdoor school.

I pay for all hay/feed/tack/shoes/dentist/vet bills etc.

My mare has recently been off injured, so I haven't charged money for the time she's been out of work as I feel it's not fair to do so. The sharer wants to help bring her back in to work (walk work only just now), which is fine by me. I won't be charging again until my mare is back in proper work though.

I do all stable duties in the winter (turn out/muck out first thing and she's brought in by YO when it gets dark as I work beyond daylight hours!) so all she needs to do in the winter when she rides is feed. I feel that as she's paying me money, it's not fair to ask her to do stable duties also.

In the summer, I poo pick the field, but there's not too much other chores to do, so not as bad for me!

I had a similar agreement as a sharer before buying my own horse and it worked really well. Never had a written agreement but has always worked out well.
 
I posted last night about something similar- I have just found someone willing to share my sisters mare. I have asked her to pay £30 a month that will be put towards shoes and to do everything for both horses 2 nights during the week- which "should" work out perfectly as it makes it easier for when I have to work late. She can come up to see them whenever she wants and her husband has offered to tow my trailer so she can go out and about.
 
Hi,

I just stumbled across this topic when googling websites to advertise horse shares!

I just wanted to ask people's advice on my sitution - basically, I just want someone to help ride one of my horses 2-3 times per week, but it's only going to be "basic" hacking - I have two mares - mum and daughter - the sharer/helper would be riding mum and I'd be riding daughter who's now 7yrs. I cannot hack the pair of them apart yet (something I'm slowly working on) so I just need someone to help hack out a few times a week mainly for a) to gradually ride them further apart whilst hacking / work on the seperation issues and b) to get them both fit - so lots of repeatative hill work and mostly all in walk.

I live on a farm so we just hack on the farm land. It's something very important for me - the getting them fit / quite boring hill work etc and getting them confident riding apart from each other, but understand this doesn't sound very attractive to someone wanting to have the opportunity to ride!

I'm willing for the right person to help school my older mare, and I would even be happy to give that person some help/tuition, but she's not an easy mare to get to grips with, so I think the arrangement would have to start out as hacking only and then gradually get to know how she works / get confidence on her (she's not dangerous or anything (apart from a little spooky!) but if you don't "press the right buttons" she won't understand what you're asking).

I do currently have a helper rider but I get the feeling she is not interested any longer - lets me down last minute, never seems interested in the horses / asks questions, so our arrangement might come to an end soon. But after thinking realistically what I'm offering someone, who would want to do it??

Any advice would be really appreciative. I just thought my best bet might just be to put some ads up in the local paper shop or something??

Thanks,
Gemma
 
I'm sure you will find someone but just be aware that the situation you describe will be quite restrictive for the rider. i.e. they will have to basically do as you say and presumably work around your riding schedule.

As it stands any rider will be doing you a huge favour so I don't think you could expect them to pay towards riding. I expect you will find someone to do it for free but if you have no luck maybe consider covering petrol money or something. Any really good rider would probably expect to be paid as well
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Hi Weezy

We had a sharer for our pony last year. She had total access although she generally came down four to five days a week. We would take her to competitions if she wanted to and we also looked after the pony whenever she couldn't make it. She paid £35 a week and effectively she got full use of a pony which was looked after for her whenever she wanted. I paid for insurance, shoes, feed and vets.

Our sharer thought she was getting a good deal!!
 
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