Sharing/ part loan cost?

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I would be very grateful if any of you that share or part loan would be able to give me an idea of your agreements.

How much do you pay and what do you get for that in terms of days and facilities? Also whereabouts are you?

Thank you
 
Horse* said:
Hello

I would be very grateful if any of you that share or part loan would be able to give me an idea of your agreements.

How much do you pay and what do you get for that in terms of days and facilities? Also whereabouts are you?

Thank you
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Hi, before I bought my own I had a horse on part loan. It was £100 a month for:
Full use of menage
Could go up as many times as I wanted as long as was pre arranged
Relatively okay hacking
Opportunities to go out to shows with them.

It was great in the summer when £25 would get me 4 times a week there but in the winter I was still paying £25 a week when I could only get there once due to the yard being in such a derelict place and always too dangerous to drive there when it had snowe.
 
I have a part loan, I suppose it would be called, we are in Milton Keynes.
Look after him as my own...pay £100pm plus farrier (only £20 trim)
I only have to muck out on a Saturday, do my share of poo picking, ride as much or as little as I like...he is kept at owners yard, she takes me to dressage, we have actually affiliated which I pay for..it is great :)
The best thing is, it is flexible, I have to drive down to Bournemouth at a weekend, so go Sat afternoon-Sunday eve to see my boyf and I don't have to worry about Louis...plus work sometimes means I am out all day so can't get back, she gets them in feeds for me then, checks him etc. If I am around at weekends, I do my bit helping clear up, go to shows etc..
I think I am very lucky, part of me wishes he was mine....but it would cost be 4 times as much and I would have to find someone to do him the days I am not here...so we just pretend he is mine :)
 
Lanarkshire, Scotland:
Share 1: £25/week for 3 days, 2 weekday, 1 weekend. Full use of horse on those days to hack or school. All stable chores happily covered by me on those days. Extra days when owner on holiday for no extra cost. Often buy him treats, grooming and tack bits and bobs e.g. saddle cloth, browband etc. Yard with large outdoor, small but reasonable indoor, good jumps, lovely people, great offroad hacking. Toilet, locked tack room. Year round turn out.
Share 2: £25/week for pretty much unlimited days. Full use of horse of those days. No stable chores. Pay for lessons if I want them, and will hopefully in future pay for some competing too. Good sized outdoor school, some jumps, small indoor lunge pit/school. A field to ride in but not much hacking. Summer turn out only.
 
I pay £100/pcm to share a real schoolmistress 2 days a week. She's on livery on the Friday, and DIY on the Saturday.

She has another sharer and the owner riding her, so I don't have to work hard to keep her fit, which is good. The yard has two floodlit outdoor schools (one with mirrors) with poles/jump blocks available, as well as a field with showjumps and working hunter jumps. I've only had to share the school once, but suspect that will change as the evenings get darker!

I haven't competed yet, but I'm planning on going out to do some dressage in a few weeks, and her other sharer takes her showing.
 
Depending on a successful hack next week, I'll be sharing a mare for £15 a week. Two days riding as I don't want to overface myself and the owner likes to give the horse a break for two/three days anyway, and I have an indoor school to use but will be mostly hacking if its dry weather.
 
What's the horse like? A lot of sharers are 'competent novices' taking the first steps towards horse ownership (like me!) and the vast majority of the ads I looked at were 'not suitable for a novice'.
 
Horse* said:
Hello

I would be very grateful if any of you that share or part loan would be able to give me an idea of your agreements.

How much do you pay and what do you get for that in terms of days and facilities? Also whereabouts are you?

Thank you
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£20 a week for 2 days, £25 a week for 3 plus days. That's on the Liverpool/St Helens border.

On my days I can do whatever I want with him. There's an outdoor school with floodlights (not proper ones, attached to a barn nearish the school but you can see well enough to do flatwork in the winter evenings) and some jumps and a small indoor lunging/loose schooling pen type area. Nice big stables and a private tackroom for his owner's stuff and feed. Proper toilet on site and portacabin with tea-making facilities and a whiteboard for booking use of the two schools.

There are some large fields on the farm that we can ride around/over depending on the time of year and access out the back to a decent length road hack route which I don't really know how to describe - it's off road hacking in the sense that there's no traffic on it, but it is a road surface, just one that no-one ever uses! Hacking on the roads on the other side of the yard is busy B roads and a very busy A road - fine for us and the boys but it's not the wonderful rural hacking I know lots of people have. It's all quite urban round here though.

I sort out yard chores on my days but they live out for at least half the year so that's not particularly onerous over the summer. No set demand to do poo picking but I'll quite often spend half an hour out there once I've turned the two boys out - I do enjoy mooching about in the field with them.

All very relaxed and easy-going. I still pay if I can't do one of my days but there's never any problem if I need to swap a day, although I do try not to. His owner has another horse so on one of my days we ride together and on the other I'll sort out turning out/putting to bed both horses so that she can have a night off.
 
Randonneuse said:
Ah!
I am asking for £50/month for at least 3days/week share (more if wanted for the same contribution) and only "chore" I ask for is poo picking which takes 10mins on our respective days
2 schools, a jumping paddock, a trec paddock and fantastic off road hacking...and I can't find anyone :(
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I would bite your hand off for facilities like that for that price if you were near me. Where have you tried advertising? Places I look mostly are Gumtree, Facebook and Equine Adverts, sometimes Preloved.
 
Pippity said:
What's the horse like? A lot of sharers are 'competent novices' taking the first steps towards horse ownership (like me!) and the vast majority of the ads I looked at were 'not suitable for a novice'.
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I tried a mare that was branded not suitable for a novice and although she was bombproof in traffic, her owner was saying she was a nightmare to ride if she got bored in winter. She was good to ride in the school but she got too forward on hacks so although I as a competent novice could ride in the school I'd never be confident on a hack.
 
Randonneuse said:
Atropa, sorry just seen your message!
I didn't know there is a horse section on Gumtree?
I have an advert on Preloved and several local facebook pages but have had no reply!
Maybe because Winter is coming? :(
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Yep, it's only been there for a couple of months though so maybe that's why you've missed it. http://www.gumtree.com/horses-ponies

The time of year could have something to do with it, but on the plus side you know that anybody who takes you up on a share in winter isn't just a 'fair-weather rider' :)
 
Pippity said:
What's the horse like? A lot of sharers are 'competent novices' taking the first steps towards horse ownership (like me!) and the vast majority of the ads I looked at were 'not suitable for a novice'.
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This.
People are happy to pay and do some chores if they're getting a great horse who is safe, and will take them to the next level.

More experienced people are not so keen to pay for a horse that needs a lot of work.
 
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