Struggling to find full loan!! :-(

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italylyns

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Just wanted to hear your views and experiences on full loaning!

I lost my gelding last year and it took me a long time to get over losing him and i wasnt ready to buy another horse straight away so i part loaned a friends horse whilst i got over him!
I am now ready to love and spoil another horse but dont have the money to buy so am looking for a full loan (with the view to buy all being well).
I have a stable waiting on a lovely private yard that i share with a friend of mine and i only work 10hrs a week which is done around anything i have to do (lucky i know!) and the rest of my time is spent at the yard!
I treat my horses like my babies but am finding that sooo many people have had bad experiences with full loaning that now genuine people like me that CAN provide a loving experienced home are not able to find a horse as people are too wary!!

I can totally understand it but just wish it wasnt so hard!!

O.k i have stopped feeling sorry for myself now lol!!
 
Have you tried advertising for a loan? My pony has only been advertised once, but has been out on loan five times! The good ones go via word of mouth.
 
I am not against ex racers by any means but i like the hunter classes and my last horse was an irish draft so i am looking for a horse of bigger build than a TB.

Maybe i am being too fussy :-/
 
I looked for ages for a friend. 5* home, experienced loaner, exellent references, etc and couldnt find anything. She initally started off wanting an ID hunter type, something smart looking and pleasant. Not a chance!

We widened the search to include anything from cobs to TBs so long as they were big enough (friend is nearly 6ft). We would have taken on a youngster, and older horse needing a quiet life, something sharp, something with medical problems or quirks and we found nothing, I dont think I had one response to the wanted ads, and we put them everywhere, including on line.

She gave up and went out and spent £1500 on a big 4 yr old clydie cross just over from Ireland. Hes rough round the edges, but he'll be stunning by the summer, and at least theres not the risk that anyone will take this one back :)
 
Hi,

I had been looking for a horse with loan with view to buy for last five months, I was looking for 16h+ weight carrying novice ride, I know they rarer than hen's teeth !
But last week I spotted an ad for my new boy, after looking through 38 pages of a well "loved" site, I have paid the fiver and see adverts early ! I figured he would have been snapped up, but the advert had a slightly different wording than the standard lwvtb so if that was search criteria you put in, he wouldn't have shown up and I was the first caller, I went to see him last Sunday and he came to live with me on Monday he is a 7yr 16.2 IDx and is just wonderful. I have no doubt we will buy him, can't imagine being without him now, he just has a special way about him. His owner just totally over horsed herself, she was 5 ft tall and 70 years old :rolleyes:

So they are out there, you just have to keep looking and trawling through the adverts.
Good Luck
 
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