Share vs loan vs buy

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Another ridiculous article from DM (but my heart goes out to the girl and her family and her friends) but any opinions on the comments about horse share?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...der--just-months-warning-dangers-sharing.html

Interested to hear as I am currently a sharer and had a nasty accident with shared horse. (I dont see it as the owner or the horses fault, however would be interested to see what others think)

Is sharing a horse more risky than owning your own horse?
 
I read the DM article and thought it was to the usual (ie many questions left unanswered, best read with a large pinch of salt) DM standard. My sympathies go to the dead woman's family and to the horse owner's family. Accidents happen and with horseriding, those accidents can sometimes be fatal to horse or person or both.

As regards share vs loan vs buy, they each have their place.

As an ex-riding (Snaresbrook) school rider, progressing to a 3-day-a-week share was an excellent move for me. It meant I learnt stable and horse management (at Southend Farm, coincidentally, for LaurenB's horrific Crooked Mile story in the other DM thread) and the responsibilities of feeding, grooming, hoofpicking, etc while having the backup of both the lovely owner and the other lovely and very helpful liveries on Southend Farm.

When we moved out to the fens, I got a fulltime but short-term loan. Again the next logical step from sharing 3 days a week. Now I knew I had the knowledge/experience to keep a horse, and the full loan allowed me to find out if I was cut out for 7-days-a-week or not.

When the loan finished, I knew I could do 7-days-a-week and also those years spend sharing and loaning had given me a much better appreciation of what my first horse should be, so instead of being a riding school graduate who went for a flashy-coloured young tall warmblood/TB type horse to "bring on" as so many novices do, I went for an established, ordinary (no disrespect Chox!), sensible look-after-the-rider 8 year old, and he's been an absolute superstar.
 
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