Swapping horses?????

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I need a little advise or comments??

Is there many people who wouls actually swap a horse??

I am desperately trying to find a new home for my 17hh sporthorse chap, through absolutely no fault of his own, he is just a bit to big and has to much talent, and i dont have the time to do him justice!!

Im considering starting a family and would therefore like to swap Tino for a smaller TB x type, of around 15.2hh to 16.2hh, i dont mind young as I know a wonderful yard who will take it in and back it professionally for me, but I would prefer a 5 to 9 yo,

Is this possible and do people do this sort of thing???

Thanks guys

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Some dealers will do part exchange, but the likelyhood of finding a person whose horse is perfect for you, and your horse is perfect for them is very unlikely.
Why not just sell normally?
 
I'm surprised noone has set up a horse swap website yet as I could see it being the answer to many people's problems. Obviously there's the issue of finding two owners who have the other's ideal horse or perhaps it could be like house buying and there would be a chain. Certainly wouldn't take the stress out of buying and selling but can't see why in some circumstances it could'nt happen. Thing I'd be wary about is being approach by dodgy dealers wanting to offload a "donkey" in exchange for your horse.
 
Why don't you sell to a dealer then or put the horse on 'sales livery' where the yard sells the horse for you. Both will get lower proce than private sales as dealers only buy to make a profit and sales livery takes 10% commission but it is a quicker way to sell if you are desperate.
 
A friend of mine did this a week ago! Having said that she has lots of other horsey friends and it just so happened that one of them had a horse she wanted and vice versa.

I reckon it is pretty rare though. Why not sell but put 'would consider swap for.....' that seems fairly common on adverts.
 
A friend of mine has just swapped her experienced eventer for a young 17.3 horse that will be an awesome eventer, so yes it can and does happen
 
Maybe a little, id just like something that is easy going and although im okay rider and very experienced, it needs to be something easy for me to trut a friend with when i cant ride due to work and illness etc, at the moment tino is far to precious etc for me to trust people with him when im not there, you see he is very sensitive, and gets shakey if hes scared.

Thankyou for the horseswap site thats fab
 
HI yes i think that it can work,i am also currently looking to do this i have a palomino partbred arab filly to make 15hh+ and would like to swap for a purebred chestnut arab filly or mare have advertised on arabianlines ad only went on today and already had a response,so i would say go for it
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I was thinking of doing this a while ago. My ISH is capable of BD & BSJA but he's very, very steady / bone idle. He's 110% in all ways, very good looking, fab conformation, good paces etc etc... but a lazybones. I was looking on Preloved & was very tempted by a 7 yo warmblood that someone had overhorsed their PC daughter with. They wanted to swap it for something steadier.

I didn't in the end - Adrian's predecessor (who died) was by Cruising & extremely sharp. He could be quite scarey when he was in the mood, & I used to wish with all my heart that he was less spooky / spinney. And now I've got it, I'm STILL not happy!!!

So, yeah, you could find a swapper.
 
know someone with a lovely gelding by Cruising up for sale, luckily he hasnt inherited the scarey/spooky/spinney bit infact hes a diamond. If you fancy a swap pm me i will let them know.
 
But would they want something slow & steady?? He's scored 64.4% affiliated dressage & I've jumped him to Discovery, but sometimes I think we'd get on better if I carried him than the other way around... He's had a b'day this week so he's 7.

Is the Cruising a grey? My Cruising horse Catembi is in my avatar.
 
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