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I've decided that I need to get a sharer for Axel.

I keep him on a very nice yard with direct access to the south downs and a fantastic 65 x 35m school.

They could have him 3 -4 days a week including the weekends and would be able to compete him too if they want.

He is a 16.2 gelding competing BD novice and elementary level, but he does jump and would make someone a nice showjumper or eventer.

How much should I be asking? I was thinking in the region of £40 a week bearing in mind that my livery is that. Then I would buy bedding and feed and pay for shoeing.
Is that reasonable?

Any advice on how to word the ad? I must have written it out about 10 times now and still can't make it sound any good!
 
Seahorse said:
I've decided that I need to get a sharer for Axel.

I keep him on a very nice yard with direct access to the south downs and a fantastic 65 x 35m school.

They could have him 3 -4 days a week including the weekends and would be able to compete him too if they want.

He is a 16.2 gelding competing BD novice and elementary level, but he does jump and would make someone a nice showjumper or eventer.

How much should I be asking? I was thinking in the region of £40 a week bearing in mind that my livery is that. Then I would buy bedding and feed and pay for shoeing.
Is that reasonable?

Any advice on how to word the ad? I must have written it out about 10 times now and still can't make it sound any good!
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I share a horse and I pay for his livery on the days I have him (in his case because it's £70 a week I pay £10 per day. The owner covers vet bills, farrier and insurance (although I have my own riders insurance just to make double sure I am covered if anything should happen!).

Hope that helps x
 
£40 p/w sounds about right for 3/4 days.

When I loaned I paid £85 a month for 2 days whilst those who had horses on full loan would pay £150 p/m basic rate + farrier + rugs or £200+ p/m if you wanted the cost of farrier and rugs included. This was quite alot considering that the horses stayed on the owner's land so there wasn't any livery charges effectively.

IMHO based on your horse's ability I would ask for more. I would also build in a contribution to shoeing as they will be wearing them down too!

I'm no good with adverts. It took me about 3 months to find my loan horse though and even then he was still 45 mins away. I found him through adtrader so I would recommend it.
 
£40 per week is very reasonable for surrey / sussex. (I presume you are more or less there if you have access to the South Downs.)

Do you need them to do stable chores as well? If not then I would up the price to about £60 per week + split farrier bills and perhaps an agreement that they will contribute to vets bills if they are responsible for any injury.

If you think about it a riding lesson around here is between £30 and £45 per hour. So to ride 3 - 4 times a week for the same money is more than reasonable! But if you need stable chores doing as well, or if he has issues or something like that it may act to reduce the price. But being able to compete him may well be reason to up the price!

Wording an advert is tricky. try to think about what would attract you to him. Then the wording is likely to attract the sort of person you want. Do you want soemone to compete him? Then word it to appeal to a competative type. Do you really in your heart of hearts want soemone who will love him an dplay with him on the ground? Then word it to appeal to that type. The advert is just a teaser. You'll decide who to share him with based on the person who answers. All you need to do advert wise is get the right sort of people to answer!

If you compete him yourself put a notice in your trailer window so people can see him compete and then know he is available. You might also contact local riding club / PC chair type people.

Good luck!
 
I would ask for more.

You have to ask yourself if the sharer causes an accident to your horse i.e. fracture, deep tissue damage etc is your vet bill worth the risk of a potentially permanently lame horse, would it affect the resale value if you were planning to sell? etc

I would definatley look at options should an accident occur does the sharer take some sort of financial responsibility or do they just walk away from it?
 
Miss Marple said:
I would ask for more.

You have to ask yourself if the sharer causes an accident to your horse i.e. fracture, deep tissue damage etc is your vet bill worth the risk of a potentially permanently lame horse, would it affect the resale value if you were planning to sell? etc
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The sharer should have adequate insurance in place to cover situations like you mention. My insurance covers vet fees up to £1500 if I the horse to have an injury out of negligence, tack cover up to £1500 if I break anything as well as the normal 3rd party liability, and dental and injury cover for me.

There is an element of trust in sharing horses whatever the situation, I don't think you can charge the sharer more £££ per week just to cover the what ifs.
 
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